Dear Eagles,
We finished first quarter of 2012/13 calendar years in flying colors. Three months into it, we have already accomplished 4 goals or 40% of the target for the year as our VP of education stated. All the officers gave their quarterly reports and all of us feel that we are doing good. We also published our first newsletter for the club capturing all the highlights and achievements thus far; our intention is to have a quarterly newsletter. Special thanks to Sonia for designing and editing. All these things suggest we are doing great and we should take a moment to celebrate.
We had a great meeting tonight with almost a full house including 4 guests and of course entertained and enriched by 4 fantastic speeches.
Richard shared the following quote on failure - "failure is not falling down, failure is not getting back up," - Anonymous
Ian was the table topics master with the theme centered on membership and organization. It was great and fun as usual which also had Mike our guest had a go at the table topics. Believe me, Mike convinced most of us including seasoned toastmasters that he actually indeed is a member of toastmasters for a long time even though today was his first toastmasters meeting ever. Lesson - if you want to "Bluff", please get a tip or two from Mike :)
Ute was smooth, clear and lucid as a toastmaster and explained all the roles to our guests. She also played a cameo humorist role.
Coming to prepared speeches, Shari started the prepared speeches section with her speech titled "breaking the ice", where she told us about what she does, what she likes, what kind of food she prefers and what kind of person she is. She told all these things with a natural smile on her face and I felt that her speech had a nice rhythm and ring to it. She even had a prop for icebreaker which is very very unusual and sort of cool. Great job. More than that her favorite color is Orange, which is same as my daughter's. That is extra cool :). I want to congratulate Shari for giving her icebreaker speech with in 2 weeks of becoming a member....awesome!
Jessica narrated us why "reality shows are not real". She is a natural storyteller with such comfort and ease, you would not believe that it was her second speech at toastmasters. She told us why she got into watching TV, primarily for improving language, which transformed later into keeping up with the local celebrity gossip, which finally got fixated into like rest of the country " keep up with Kardashians". Jessica brings subtle humor to her speeches and she ended with a quote saying "watching reality shows, one would learn less history than you learn from watching Titanic movie" ..... That clearly and succinctly sums up the message.
Kate shared with us the folk tale of "the golden touch" where how king Midas learnt through a hard way that gold has its value but it cannot replace the value of life, the value of seasons, the value of change, the value of the aroma, the taste, the value of growing up, the value of pleasure in simple daily things and occurrences. Kate did a wonderful job in bringing story to life, the gestures, the body language, the vocal variety and yes the whole package....and she picked a great manual (story telling) that fits her style and delivery.... Watch out for more speeches from her..
Finally, Sonia gave a practice speech on "boost your street cred" in preparation for her area contest and got feedback from all the members. Her speech gave details on how to improve on the street credibility by the way you dress, the way you talk, the way you walk, the bling, the glasses, oh yes! Everything. All the members rated the speech very high on the novelty and the content, the humor is there, Sonia brings in the mannerisms needed and it has all the pieces needed for it to be a serious contender at the area level. It all comes down to execution and we all believe that Sonia has it....... Sonia, GO FOR IT........
All in all, it was a great meeting and a great night. Please sign up for roles and see you all in 2 weeks on Oct 15th.
Goodnight.
Chandra
We finished first quarter of 2012/13 calendar years in flying colors. Three months into it, we have already accomplished 4 goals or 40% of the target for the year as our VP of education stated. All the officers gave their quarterly reports and all of us feel that we are doing good. We also published our first newsletter for the club capturing all the highlights and achievements thus far; our intention is to have a quarterly newsletter. Special thanks to Sonia for designing and editing. All these things suggest we are doing great and we should take a moment to celebrate.
We had a great meeting tonight with almost a full house including 4 guests and of course entertained and enriched by 4 fantastic speeches.
Richard shared the following quote on failure - "failure is not falling down, failure is not getting back up," - Anonymous
Ian was the table topics master with the theme centered on membership and organization. It was great and fun as usual which also had Mike our guest had a go at the table topics. Believe me, Mike convinced most of us including seasoned toastmasters that he actually indeed is a member of toastmasters for a long time even though today was his first toastmasters meeting ever. Lesson - if you want to "Bluff", please get a tip or two from Mike :)
Ute was smooth, clear and lucid as a toastmaster and explained all the roles to our guests. She also played a cameo humorist role.
Coming to prepared speeches, Shari started the prepared speeches section with her speech titled "breaking the ice", where she told us about what she does, what she likes, what kind of food she prefers and what kind of person she is. She told all these things with a natural smile on her face and I felt that her speech had a nice rhythm and ring to it. She even had a prop for icebreaker which is very very unusual and sort of cool. Great job. More than that her favorite color is Orange, which is same as my daughter's. That is extra cool :). I want to congratulate Shari for giving her icebreaker speech with in 2 weeks of becoming a member....awesome!
Jessica narrated us why "reality shows are not real". She is a natural storyteller with such comfort and ease, you would not believe that it was her second speech at toastmasters. She told us why she got into watching TV, primarily for improving language, which transformed later into keeping up with the local celebrity gossip, which finally got fixated into like rest of the country " keep up with Kardashians". Jessica brings subtle humor to her speeches and she ended with a quote saying "watching reality shows, one would learn less history than you learn from watching Titanic movie" ..... That clearly and succinctly sums up the message.
Kate shared with us the folk tale of "the golden touch" where how king Midas learnt through a hard way that gold has its value but it cannot replace the value of life, the value of seasons, the value of change, the value of the aroma, the taste, the value of growing up, the value of pleasure in simple daily things and occurrences. Kate did a wonderful job in bringing story to life, the gestures, the body language, the vocal variety and yes the whole package....and she picked a great manual (story telling) that fits her style and delivery.... Watch out for more speeches from her..
Finally, Sonia gave a practice speech on "boost your street cred" in preparation for her area contest and got feedback from all the members. Her speech gave details on how to improve on the street credibility by the way you dress, the way you talk, the way you walk, the bling, the glasses, oh yes! Everything. All the members rated the speech very high on the novelty and the content, the humor is there, Sonia brings in the mannerisms needed and it has all the pieces needed for it to be a serious contender at the area level. It all comes down to execution and we all believe that Sonia has it....... Sonia, GO FOR IT........
All in all, it was a great meeting and a great night. Please sign up for roles and see you all in 2 weeks on Oct 15th.
Goodnight.
Chandra
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