It's the start for 'Something New'!

Francis, our ‘sergeant at arms’, welcomed us all at the door to our first meeting of 2019. Our meeting started on time which was opened by our president Sarah.  She took us on her journey through toastmasters, explaining how everyone has their own story for joining. It’s very often a moment lost in time where a few words would have been appropriate and memorable. It’s there we take out first step on this fantastic journey to Toastmasters!

She then handed the meeting over to our Toastmaster for the night, Michael, who introduced the members with roles. Our Ah-counter Tara, our Timekeeper Shane, Creative corner Marie, Scribe Trisha and our Grammarian Jennifer who introduced the word ‘quotidian’ we try to use the word of the night in our meeting when we can.  Then on to our Topicsmaster for the night, Aisling.

We had an exciting topics session, reflecting on the past year and welcoming in the new one. Everything from the standout moments in 2018 to what was the worst present you ever got and then on to our New year’s resolutions. Moving into 2019 we will be learning from the lessons of others, focusing on the positive and being more content with life. Some will even push the boundaries and reach the base camp of Mount Everest this year.

It was then on to our prepared speeches. The first from Noarah which was her icebreaker speech titled ‘New year’s resolutions’. Then Eugene with ‘Thunder and lightning, very very frightening me’. On to Pat with ‘My communication style’. And our second Pat with ‘The power of negative thinking’.

It was then time for our tea break and a chat.

On return our prepared speeches were evaluated. Each speaker was given positive feedback on their speech and something to work on for their next one. Then on to our reports for the evening from our Ah counter and Grammarian. Our creative corner was from Marie with a poem called ‘Don’t quit’.

Roles for our next meeting were filled and it was agreed that our meetings going forward will start at 8pm. Our next meeting is on Wednesday 23 January, all are welcome and we hope to see you then!