Dear Blue Tongue members, intending members and guests,,
The BTTM Meeting 139 on the 21st of April at the IBM Centre located at St Leonards.
The meeting was chaired by Elke and Vijay took on the timing duties.
Tonight we had 3 visitors; Eric, Vijay’s Friend Badri and Francesca.
Welcomed to Toastmasters as a brand new member is Vijay.
Our visitor Badri presented the word “Organise” as the word of the day; encouraging all speakers to incorporate this word in all their assignments.
Mark courageously took on the table topics assignment at the last minute. He presented each participant with a random colour and asked each speaker what it meant to them. All the participants tackled the assignment in great spirit and adhered to the time rules.
The evaluation was provided by our long time member Jorg and Lincoln. Both provided excellent feedbacks and tips to the speakers.
At the conclusion of the break, Lincoln provided a personal account of what toastmaster meant to him.
While welcoming the evening’s guests, Te also took a few minutes to share his own Toastmasters experience.
The toastmaster for the evening was our newest member Vijan. Vijay introduced Jason to the stage for his 5th assignment titled. “Let your body speak.” Jason’s assignment provided tips on how we should be conscious of our body language at work and at play.
Our second speaker was Geoff. The topic of his assignment was on the 5 largest volcano eruptions of all time. Geoff also provided pictures to suggest past volcanic eruptions have inspired paintings and caused “weird” behaviour in people.
Our third speaker was Lincoln, who delivered his ‘Ice Breaker’ on the topics of metaphysics. Lincoln’s very interesting speech was based on the film ” What the blip do I know.”
Jason’s speech was evaluated by thoroughly evaluated by Elke, while Geoff’s speech was evaluated by Mark. Jason returned to the stage to provide feedback for Lincoln’s first speech from the Competent Communicator manual.
Following the evaluation, Te tested our listening skills with a short serious of questions.
Vijay provided the timers report while our guest Badri finalised the word count for the WORD of the DAY assignment.
Mark returned to the stage to provide a thorough general evaluation.
The meeting concluded at 7:30pm.
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The next regular meeting for Blue Tongue Toastmasters will be held on Wednesday 5th May:
When: 5.45pm, Wednesday 5th May
Where: Room 13.05 (level 13)
IBM, 601 Pacific Highway,
St Leonards NSW 2065
5.45pm-7:30pm
Meet in the reception area at 5.30pm to go up to level 13.
Please ring me (ph: 0419 767 250) if there are any questions.
I have attached below a draft agenda for the meeting. Please let me know:
a) If you will be attending the meeting or send your apologies
b) If you would like to present any other assignment – I am looking for members to take on the following meeting assignments:
· Chairman
· Success – Toastmasters help me…
- Table Topics Evaluators (2)
- Visitors Welcome
- Speech Evaluators (1)
· General Evaluator
NB – We will be holding Elections for the Club Executive for 2010/2011 at our meeting on 19th May. Attached to this email is a list of the Executive Roles available. All financial members are eligible to stand for any of these roles (training and mentoring will be provided). Please ask any of the current Executive if you have questions (new ideas are needed).
Best regards,
Mark Ransom
VP Education
Blue Tongue Toastmasters
ph: 0419 767 250
mransom@optusnet.com.au
