3rd February Mt Victoria Toastmasters met for their first meeting for 2010. The meeting was chaired by Anna Potts who had selected the theme: Summer Daze. It was great to see so many people back from their holidays, looking relaxed and ready for another year of achieving their goals with Mt Vic Toastmasters.
We started the meeting with the word of the day from Grammarian Peter W. who challenged us to use his chosen word “romance” throughout the meeting. Next Victor O. came up and introduced the table topics theme of school days – where he invited a few speakers and asked for volunteers to speak about their reminiscences of their days at school. We had six speakers who shared vignettes of their school life.
Jacque T. introduced one of our advanced speakers Sarah B. who spoke about the Wot Wots and life at the Weta Cave. We were introduced to Spotty Wot, one of the main characters from the popular pre-school children’s TV programme – The Wotwots.
Peter A. arrived at the front with more than his usual flair to introduce a dramatic interpretive reading from Mike W. Mike got into the spirit of his performance with fake painted blood on his “cloak”. Listening to Mike I felt the hair rising on the back of my arms.
Just before the supper break Matt H. gave a thoroughly excellent evaluation of the table topic speakers and the table topics master.
After supper we warmly invited our guests who had joined us for the meeting and they got up and introduced themselves. It was great to have them here with us.
Bronwen T. got up and introduced Rebecca E. who was going to giving us her fourth speech in her Competent Communicators manual. Rebecca gave us a simple explanation of the differences between Japanese acupuncture and Chinese acupuncture.
Russell M. Club President, got up at the business session and gave us a few upcoming dates to add to the diary – the Evaluation and International Speech Contest on 17th March and the Restaurant meeting on 14th April. He also invited anyone to attend the upcoming club officers’ training.
Stephen P. was brought on at the last minute to introduce and evaluate Gareth D.’s speech. Thanks Stephen! Gareth gave his second speech from the Competent Communicators manual and gave an interesting review on the latest movie – Avatar – encouraging us to go and see it in 3D, if you haven’t already seen it.
Garth B. led an interactive and stimulating listening post session to check our critical listening skills and memories throughout the meeting.
Peter W. got up to let us know how well we used his chosen word and Robert G. gave us the timekeeper’s report.
We look forward to the next meeting in a fortnight’s time where Mike W. will be chairing.
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