Mark Glanville ran an informative meeting today on the history and meaning of the daffodil. Brent Ruru as Grammarian, chose a variation in the theme of the day and talked about Daffy Duck and challenged us to use the cartoon character in our speaking.
This morning was another fun, energetic, upbeat Boaters Toastmasters meeting. Deb, our [email protected] opened this morningÂs meeting with much happiness.
Toastmaster for the day, Steve Kennelly chose the theme of ÂCareer ChangeÂ for todays meeting. It became obvious as the meeting progressed that this was a blatant marketing campaign from Steve to recruit a replacement club treasurer.
Meeting No. 861 – What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
Boaters first meeting for 2017!
Alannah Vickery was the Toastmaster of the day and introduced the theme, ÂHealth is the real wealth, not pieces of gold.Â Throughout the meeting Alannah shared health tips to go along with the theme. One tip was that we should floss, because not doing so might result in the loss of a jaw!
Our Toastmaster Vivien Cowey introduced us to the theme of the meeting, ÂwhatÂs happening in our communityÂ. Roydon Gibbs introduced us all to a new word ÂdenizenÂ meaning an inhabitant of a place.
Toastmaster Emma Hayes deftly ran this morningÂs meeting, number 831, drawing inspiration for the theme of ÂPower to the PeopleÂ from the Brexit vote, where people power seemingly flew in the face of the expertsÂ warnings and prognostications.
Caleb Vercoe, the meetingÂs Toastmaster, had ÂBroken RecordsÂ as the theme for the day. Throughout his well- organised meeting he covered broken records from Michael Jackson to Star Trek and impressed with his research and humour.
Today’s meeting started with the Treaty of Waitangi and an opening from the Grammarian of the National Anthem. We were all challenged by Mark to learn to dance a series of dances that sounded like exotic dishes from a restaurant.
It would have been a marathon but there were 2 absences so we had 4 entertaining speeches today. Rachel was our toastmaster for 2 weeks in a row, plus introducer of all 4 speeches.
1st Meeting of the year!!
Table Topics Contest 2012 – A room full of liars?
It’s always a pleasure to see members of the club taking on a role for the first time and doing a wonderful job. Scott B was excellent in his first evaluation yesterday as he evaluated an inspiring speech by Brent R. It’s also fantastic to see the number of guests we’ve had recently.