186th Meeting

Arrr! An onomatopeia for the pirate's native language. That word was uttered many times at our meeting today, led by Toastmaster Kalen, because our theme was piracy. What do you think of when you think of piracy? Economical downloading? Swords and cannons? Young boys with guns? The wide blue sea? Cruise ships? All were discussed today during our table topics session, led by Maryam Ali.

In addition, we had two guests, Sultan and Thomas, who added a brand new perspective to our crew. Marcel also gave his second speech, "Say Yes, and Invest," which I personally found very useful as I still have money sitting around, collecting dust.

See you next week!

185th meeting

Today Maryam was our Toastmaster of the Day, and Alex was the Table Topics Master. Alex turned our theme of "Diplomacy and Tact" into a respond-and-react type of experience, in which members were thrown into delicate situations and had to talk (or more often lie) their way out. In a mysterious way the chicken dance was involved--but you had to be there.

Our prepared speaker today was Jordi, giving us several practical tips on how to choose a speech topic. Good job everyone!

184th Meeting

This week Xiang was Toastmaster for the first time and led the meeting with style and warmth!  Our speakers were Maryam, giving us an uplifting speech concerning how to live life to a fuller extent, and Marcel, giving his first speech, the Icebreaker, which everyone enjoyed very much!

The theme was "You have the right to remain silent" and I as topic master held an informal court in which Jordi was pronounced not guilty (though everyone really thinks he stole the pig).

Finally, I hope everyone endeavors to keep using the word of the day: defenestrate! "Tonight at Wendys, he defenestrated his boot. It was hilarious."