Our final meeting of 2015 was special on Tuesday evening. Fahad opened the meeting as acting President, introducing the Toastmasters educational programme and manual at length.
In charge of leading the meeting this evening as Toastmaster was club President Florian who quickly introduced his team of helpers. Timekeeper Andy tasked with looking after time this evening. Grammarian Edwin looked after the uses of the English language. Sophia as harkmaster ready to test listening skills this evening and finally vote counter Eleanor H.
The first speaker of the evening was Karen with a speech titled “E is for …” In her speech Karen explained why she has joined Toastmasters and how this links to the importance placed by her family on education and self-improvement. Following on was second speaker of the evening, Toby “On the bright side”. Toby opened his speech by highlighting that extreme poverty worldwide had halved between 1990 and today. The reasons for this improvement have to go with better access to healthcare, the eradication of diseases such as smallpox and reduction in crime rates. Our third speaker of the evening Isabelle had a festive theme to her speech “A Christmas controversy”. Isabelle explained the importance of Saint Nicholas to Dutch Christmas traditions and how he is helped by the Zwarte Piets whose minstrel faces have recently been controversial. The final speaker of the evening was Kate with a speech from the Storytelling manual “The adventures of Jeremy Fisher”. We learnt everything about the aforementioned chestnut haired pony and his various shenanigans including bringing traffic to a halt on a busy road.
The first to evaluate this evening was Stephen for Karen’s speech. Stephen praised her for not using notes for her very first speech. Terry then evaluated Toby and highlighted his powerful and intriguing introduction. Eleanor G followed on with an evaluation of Isabelle’s speech praising her increased confidence compared to previous speeches and clear message. Finally, Joyce evaluated Kate and congratulated her on her storytelling skill that transported us in the environment she was describing.
Annabel was leading the table topics session this evening. Coming up with topics themed on the “best Christmas present you’ve ever given or received” “what’s your family Christmas tradition” or “What’s your New Year resolution?” The table topics session was then evaluated by Charles who gave feedback to all six table topics speakers. Edwin and Sophia then came back for their reports followed by Prateek as general evaluator of the entire meeting.
A very successful 2015 is coming to an end in London Victorians. Onwards to more successes in 2016!
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