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Hello, fellow toastmasters and most welcome guests,
We had a wonderful meeting on May 2nd, 2008! More than 40 (!) people came including 8 new guests. Welcome and thank you all for coming!
The meeting was started on time by the president of our club Al with a brief opening remark. He then gave the lectern to our VP Education, Sterling who led the whole meeting through as the Toastmaster. Leonette then took the role as the toastmaster of the table topic session. She brought pictures of different themes and speakers made continuous stories based on the pictures they chose. Everybody spoke with humor. Well done, Leonette and thanks to the seven participants for their wonderful impromptus speeches (see below).
We had three wonderful speakers in the prepared speech session. The first speaker was Young Kim. Even though it was his first speech, he seemed comfortable in delivering his icebreaker. He spoke about his personal experience in Iraq and he was engaged with the audience by telling an emotional story. The second speaker was Juliana. Even though it was her 4th speech, her speech was more than what it’s expected to be as a fourth speech. By using visual aids, she pointed out negative labels that we tend to put on someone and instead introduced non-violent communication. The last speaker was Cathe. In her 5th speech, she told how important to exercise because it makes our body feel better. Our bodies need oxygen and exercise will help us do that.
In the evaluation session, Tim, Michael Lee and Suji gave their wonderful evaluations. The ah-counter was Migual and the timer of this meeting was Carol. They all did excellent jobs (see below)! The meeting was finished at about 7:45 pm. Overall, it was a wonderful meeting! Thanks everyone and see you all next Friday in the same room on May 9th, 2008!
Meeting Roles:
Toastmaster: Sterling
Table Topic Toastmaster: Leonette
Ah Counter: Migual
Timer: Carol
Ah Counter’s Report
Table Topics Session
Michael Lee 0
Michael Jackson 2 ah, 2 you know
Suji 10 ah, 5 you know
Andrew 4 um, 2 you know
Carolyn 1 um
James 1 ah, 1 you know
Mario 3 er
Prepared speeches
Young: 6ah/15um, 2 you know
Juliana: 1ah/5um
Cathe: 0
Evaluations
Tim2 ah, 3 um, 1 you know
Michael Lee: 3 ah, 1 um
Suji: 6ah/um
Timer’s Report
Table Topics Session
Michael Lee: 1:03min
Michael Jackson: 0:54min
Suji: 2:00min
Andrew: 1:27min
Carolyn: 0:59min
James: 1:45min
Mario: 2:08min
Prepared speeches
Young: 9:10min
Juliana: 8:32min
Cathe:7:23
Evaluations
Tim: 3:40min
Michael Lee: 3:25min
Suji: 2:10
