Almost becoming a thing of a habit, Galway Toastmasters online
meetings Wednesday 29th April was another smashing success!
The newest role held by Eugene entitled ‘Meeting Housekeeper’
whose job is to ‘explain best practice etiquette for online video conferencing
meetings’ helped us get sorted! Rob, acting as time keeper, replaced the
traditional colored lights with appropriately colored letters from An Post,
good stuff! The Grammarian, Cormac, shared the word of the evening “Fleek”! We
learnt it means extremely good, stylish – and it got mentioned quite a bit!
Tonight, Pat was the elected Toastmaster, whom introduced Tara
as the Topicsmaster of the evening! We started off by imaging what we would do,
if the lockdown was lifted right away – what are the first things we would do?
Meet family and friend were high on the lists! And watch Mayo games! GAA in
general, and leaving certs, were also highly debated!
The first prepared speech was given by Aisling, with a
speech named “Typhoid Mary". We were told what typhoid is, and the story from
USA in 1906, of an Irish immigrant woman cook named Mary, who stayed in over 26
years in quarantine!
The second speech of the evening was from Marie, named “Living
with your mentors”. Purpose of the speech is how Toastmasters encourages
mentors, and how we work with protégées. We learnt about three mentors; by
default (parents and siblings), by force (teachers), and by choice (friends and
work colleagues). A mentor can help you along your way in life!
Jenny gave the third speech of the evening, “Being the youngest
child”. She shared the good, the bad, and the ugly around being the youngest
child; like the rules! The first child makes the rules, the second child is the
reason for said rules, and for the youngest child – the rules don’t apply!
The fourth and final speech of the evening was given by
Danny, with a title “My inspirational Communicators”, sharing stories from
different paths of his life, and speeches from John F Kennedy. Very inspiring and
insightful!
Frances chaired the second half of the meeting and as
general evaluator was pleased with the way the meeting ran, with great feedback
from all our evaluators to our speakers. Christoffer led the Creative corner,
with a small story from the story “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho. “The secret
of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drops
of oil on the spoon!”. Our president Declan closed the meeting, and wished
everyone a nice evening!
Join us for the next meeting, which is Wednesday 13th May at 8pm – all online!
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