This week’s meeting was the last before the summer vacation, so if you plan to stop by our club as a guest, please know that we are meeting on July 9th, July 23rd, August 6th, and August 20th. We will resume regular Toastmasters meeting hours on September 3rd.
And this last meeting was both fun and serious. Richard took charge as our Chairman, making sure that all roles were filled. We had the joy of listing to Jinzhe’s speech, as she stepped out of her comfort zone and do a humorous speech. During the speech, she pointed out that humor is not her strong suit, but it was clear that she felt comfortable trying something new in our Toastmasters club. She even did a Mad Lips reading as our club’s mission statement, which had us all laughing.
Our second speaker was Meg, who was wrapping up her CC manual this week. And she did so with a powerful speech about sexism. She captured our attention with a powerful introduction and she continued to keep us engaged with personal examples, sexism on social media and inspired us to do something about it when we see sexism happen against women.
Our Table Topics event was focused on summertime and highlighted Sharon’s favourite vacation spot, Jeremy’s worst vacation experience and Julia’s opinion on “stay-vacation.” They all did a great job answering the questions that were asked of them.
And as part of our weekly ritual, weekly awards were given out for “Best Speaker,” “Best Evaluator” and “Best Table Topics Speaker.” Meg won “Best Speaker,” so she has two things to celebrate this week. Sharon won “Best Table Topics Speaker” and Tony got “Best Evaluator” for giving feedback to Meg.
Come join us on July 9th for our next meeting!
