Dear Eagles,
Sometimes aren't we all left surprised and wondering about when the things are turning out to be much better than expected? I am surely sitting in that lot puzzled, wondering, reasoning out for why (?) when looking at how great the things are at our club! I think , as analysts say, we are "beating the expectations fair and square," and the reason is quite clear to me, it is the "warmth of our club." We had another phenomenal meeting with more than 20+ members including 3 guests, of which Daya signing on the dotted line.
Richard, as the toastmaster, set the tempo for the night, by making us sit on a journey of laughter. Richard was funny and set the whole room alight :)
With tomorrow being the Big election night, Tom Corrigan provided us not one quote but a series of quotes from the founding fathers of the country reminding us of the Government's role.
Ian stepped in as the table topics master and with the weather being uncomfortably cold, the theme was rightly on the "winter". Good part was all the 3 guests, Daya (now a member technically), Hollie and Sarah had a stab at the table topics. Oh, Sarah, was hilarious with her sarcastic, cynical humor, where she did not even spare the great poet, Robert Frost....
We had a full roster with 4 speeches, and the two icebreakers were so good that you would not believe that they were indeed icebreaker speeches. Carlin gave her icebreaker speech "all about me," covering the various aspects of her life some of them being the very high moments and some being the unfortunate low points succinctly; she shared with us some of the things she is trying in the process of figuring out of her way after the recent unfortunate turn of events. From her stage presence, you could clearly see that she is not a novice to giving speeches, but the best part of her speech, which struck me, was her can do attitude and her positive outlook towards the future......
Jay followed Carlin with his icebreaker speech on "Lebanon." It was one of the well organized speeches for an icebreaker, in which with his vivid description gave us almost a picturistic guide of Lebanon - the three different regions, the three different landscapes, the three different flora and fauna, the three different cuisines - yes, it was well done. Jay even clarified that not all kids in Lebanon go to school on camels, and not all lamps in Lebanon create the magical Genie :)
Joe gave a speech on "words are friends," where he told us 7 simple steps for an effective speech. The seven being : write for the ear, be specific ( vague is like plague), vivid words, rhetoric devices, reduce jargon, economize and say it correctly. Joe did a wonderful job.
The final speech was given by Kate on "Another kitchen gadget". Oh, Kate had the whole room cracking. Few of us had tears in our eyes because of all the laughing. I can say that this speech would have won the Humorous speech contest at the Division level - Hands down, no question. It was that hilarious when she talked about the vegetable slicer, the dicer, the chopper, the designer cutter she bought at a trade show. The whole room went ballistic when Tom Piekarsky, interjected Kate in the middle of her speech when she was showing us how we can cut the potatoes, the onions, the squashes with a curious question of " Kate, do you actually cook ?"..... Oh it was better than a stand up comedy and yet for free, I should have recorded the speech, it was that awesome.
It was a great night. Thanks to all of you.
BTW, the fall conference is on Nov 17th. Please let me know if you are interested and I can give more details.
Our next meeting is in 2 weeks on Nov 19th, so please do sign up for the roles.
Goodnight.
Chandra
Sometimes aren't we all left surprised and wondering about when the things are turning out to be much better than expected? I am surely sitting in that lot puzzled, wondering, reasoning out for why (?) when looking at how great the things are at our club! I think , as analysts say, we are "beating the expectations fair and square," and the reason is quite clear to me, it is the "warmth of our club." We had another phenomenal meeting with more than 20+ members including 3 guests, of which Daya signing on the dotted line.
Richard, as the toastmaster, set the tempo for the night, by making us sit on a journey of laughter. Richard was funny and set the whole room alight :)
With tomorrow being the Big election night, Tom Corrigan provided us not one quote but a series of quotes from the founding fathers of the country reminding us of the Government's role.
Ian stepped in as the table topics master and with the weather being uncomfortably cold, the theme was rightly on the "winter". Good part was all the 3 guests, Daya (now a member technically), Hollie and Sarah had a stab at the table topics. Oh, Sarah, was hilarious with her sarcastic, cynical humor, where she did not even spare the great poet, Robert Frost....
We had a full roster with 4 speeches, and the two icebreakers were so good that you would not believe that they were indeed icebreaker speeches. Carlin gave her icebreaker speech "all about me," covering the various aspects of her life some of them being the very high moments and some being the unfortunate low points succinctly; she shared with us some of the things she is trying in the process of figuring out of her way after the recent unfortunate turn of events. From her stage presence, you could clearly see that she is not a novice to giving speeches, but the best part of her speech, which struck me, was her can do attitude and her positive outlook towards the future......
Jay followed Carlin with his icebreaker speech on "Lebanon." It was one of the well organized speeches for an icebreaker, in which with his vivid description gave us almost a picturistic guide of Lebanon - the three different regions, the three different landscapes, the three different flora and fauna, the three different cuisines - yes, it was well done. Jay even clarified that not all kids in Lebanon go to school on camels, and not all lamps in Lebanon create the magical Genie :)
Joe gave a speech on "words are friends," where he told us 7 simple steps for an effective speech. The seven being : write for the ear, be specific ( vague is like plague), vivid words, rhetoric devices, reduce jargon, economize and say it correctly. Joe did a wonderful job.
The final speech was given by Kate on "Another kitchen gadget". Oh, Kate had the whole room cracking. Few of us had tears in our eyes because of all the laughing. I can say that this speech would have won the Humorous speech contest at the Division level - Hands down, no question. It was that hilarious when she talked about the vegetable slicer, the dicer, the chopper, the designer cutter she bought at a trade show. The whole room went ballistic when Tom Piekarsky, interjected Kate in the middle of her speech when she was showing us how we can cut the potatoes, the onions, the squashes with a curious question of " Kate, do you actually cook ?"..... Oh it was better than a stand up comedy and yet for free, I should have recorded the speech, it was that awesome.
It was a great night. Thanks to all of you.
BTW, the fall conference is on Nov 17th. Please let me know if you are interested and I can give more details.
Our next meeting is in 2 weeks on Nov 19th, so please do sign up for the roles.
Goodnight.
Chandra
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