Our last Toastmasters meeting was held on the 1st of May. The meeting was opened by our President Sarah, who brought along her ankle bracelet “Elephant”. Sarah handed over to our Toastmaster for the evening, Margaret, who introduced each officer and ran the first half of the meeting.
Margaret introduced Martin to deliver his presentation on “The Successful Club Series – Meeting Roles & Responsibilities”., whom delivered a very insightful presentation on the roles and responsibilities within a Toastmasters club. This, along with what it takes from the team to put Toastmasters meetings together! Martin concluded his presentation with a famous quote from the one and only Henry Ford:
“Coming together is the beginning, keeping together is progress, walking together is success.” – Henry Ford
The Topicsmaster for the night was Ann-Marie and there was fantastic participation from all who were asked to discuss a topic and, members and guests who completed an “add-on”. Topics included what would be the eight wonder of the world, Random acts of kindness and experiences outside of one’s comfort zone.
With the Topics section concluded, we moved on to the four speeches.
Margaret introduced Aishling to deliver her speech named “Churches, Calendars & Coffee”. Aishling delivered a highly entertaining and educational speech depicting her experiences whilst travelling to Lalibela in Ethiopia. We were truly educated and enlightened with tales of the 11 medieval churches, the Gregorian and Julian Calendars and food that had a texture like carpet underlay!
The third speech of the evening from Cormac titled “The Soothing effects of a Pen” entertained us with a show, of how he found the soothing effects of keeping a journal after watching a video on how to stop procrastinating.
The fourth and final speech of the evening from Declan titled “Cold Reading” enlightened us on the importance of knowing Inferential questions and if ever asked “Do you want an ice-cream”;make sure to say yes! Great insight into the world of cold reading which included Rainbow rules and Barnham statements.
Margaret concluded the first half and we broke for tea and coffee.
After the break, our General Evaluator Eugene took control of the meeting and introduced the evaluators for the speeches. Jamie evaluated Aishling’s, Mike evaluated Christine’s, Pat Coakley evaluated Cormac’s and Pat Croke evaluated Declan’s.
Eugene called on the officers with their reports for the evening, the word for the evening “Euphoria” was used on nine occasions, there were 64 “uhms”, 40 “ahs” and 18 “you knows”.
Last up, we had creative corner from Marie with “Talk about our Mind” and how it can be our best friend or our worst enemy. Talk it out and take one step at a time! All are welcome at our next meeting, hope to see you there!
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