A great meeting based on the theme of EXAMs
Paul, the President opened the meeting to encourage everyone to get involved and gave a reminder that the club Humorous Speech Contest will be held on Tuesday 15th September – all City of London Toastmaster members are eligible to compete, so please contact Paul for more info.
Ga Lok opened the theme of Exams and that Toastmasters is a place where you can’t fail, you can only get better.
Leigh was our timekeeper and chief tax exam expert.
Charlotte our Grammarian introduced the word of the day “Wan”, a word she picked up back in her A Level study days.
Ana was our Table Topics Master gave a whirlwind set of topics for our members and guests.
Henry, a visiting Australian Toastmaster was our Topics Evaluator; he has been a guest for several meetings and will be missed as he heads back to the other side of the world next week.
Ivelina, a visiting Toastmaster from Kings Cross introduced our guests, she recently became a Toastmaster and did her icebreaker with 8 hours notice.
We had 4 great speeches tonight (their speech evaluators in brackets):
- Christoph – The forgotten holiday destination (Marcelo)
- Tian – You are what your ancestors ate (Leigh)
- Noor – How to make a successful career transition (Christine)
- Paul – Advanced speech on Conversing with Ease (Hugh)
Rachel then gave her General Evaluator report and will be gracing her presence in other clubs to do her external GE soon.
It was a likely and action packed meeting; congratulations to Christoph winning best speech, Hugh winning best evaluator and Geoff (a guest) who won best table topic.
See you at the next meeting on Tuesday 1st September.
Ga Lok
