How to Say It

July 25th brought  another fun and successful meeting.  The theme of our meeting was Games.  Shuquing's word of the day was Olympic.  We had good fun incorporating the theme and the word into our introductions,speeches table topics and evaluations.  Our area Governor  Vijay paid us another visit.  You would never know that it was July and summer holiday season , most of the club members attended the meeting. Two guests, Owen and Anita came to visit.  We enjoyed having you and hope that you return!

There are 10 speeches on the path to becoming a Competent Communicator.  As it happened, at our last meeting July 25th we had 2 speakers giving the 4th Speech from the Toastmasters International Competent Communicator Manual, How to Say It. The objectives of this speech are to examine sentence structure, word choices and rhetorical devices. 

Our first speaker, Melissa gave us a lot of insight and food for thought when she spoke of Hospice Care in Saskatoon.   As her speech concluded, Melissa let it be known that volunteers are needed.  Training is provided to volunteers.  Melissa is available for inquiries.
Rathan, our club's Vice President of Education combined his 4th speech with his executive duties and spoke on SMART goals (Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Tangible).  Although at the end of his speech he gave us sheets return to him with our personal Toastmasters Goals, his speech applied to goals in every situation.
Tanya did a great job filling in at the last minute with our Table Topics.  Her topics were related to the theme of our meeting, Games and were ably answered. All in, a lot is accomplished in 50-55 minutes at our meetings.

Our next meeting is August 8, room 436  at the Saskatoon Square, the corner of 22nd Street and 4th Ave. Guests are always welcome.