Mt Vic ToastMasters club has moved to The New Crossways Community Centre, Level 1, 6 Roxburgh Street.
We’ve also moved to Tuesday nights, meeting every second Tuesday from 23 April.
Come along to our open meeting on Tuesday 23 April at 7:30pm, and start your journey towards confident public speaking! It’s a great opportunity for new and former members to check out the new venue and the club, and to see what ToastMasters is all about.
The new venue is on the map below:
Thank you Rachelle for charing a great and thought provoking meeting. We were treated to three great prepared speeches:
Brad – What got me to this point
Antony – The Exhibition match
Ana – My secret skill
Also Steve as our general evaluator for the evening shared with us some great feedback for the night but there is one particular piece of advice that stood out. He mentioned a great technique for avoiding the use of filler words such as um. Pick an object you see in front of you and describe it for 30s using short sentences.
Another great meeting last week. The night began with a great set of table topics which got us all thinking about the theme of the night. We were also treated to three great prepared speeches:
John – Dancing makes you smarter
Rob – A breath of fresh air
Adam – What ever I want, whenever I want as long as I’m allowed
Thank you to all who attended and took on roles for making the meeting a good one.
Welcome to 2012 fellow Toastmasters, the year got off to a great start with a great meeting. Argelia allowed us to relive our Christmas breaks with a great set of table topics. Garth gave a great prepared speech reading an excerpt from Roald Dahls novel Charlie and the Glass Elevator. May there be many more great meeting during the year to come.
For the Mt Victoria Toast Master meeting on the 8th of June 2011 we held the “who am I??? event”. Yes, rather than just a theme for the meeting everyone in a leadership role was challenged to give a description of their role and how it contributes to the club, as part of their speech. Even the non-speaking role of Assistant Sergeant at Arms (ASA) was given the opportunity to inform the club of their purpose.
As chair, I challenged everyone when taking on a new role, to research it, find out why they are doing it and even how they could be doing it better.
Tonight we had four speakers:
Jacinta gave a very, inclusive speech on selling your best asset. You are your best asset – make the most of it.
Peter finished his 10th speech from his Competent Communicator manual – Congratulations! For this speech we were transported to a night of people watching on Courtney Place.
Victor reminded us about the upcoming referendum. Going through the history of the two questions we will be asked, their relevance and importance.
Alana’s speech was about the New Zealand Travel bug. We now know how many of us are travelling and were we are all going. She recommends everyone to register on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Safe Travel Website http://www.safetravel.govt.nz/ when going overseas so you can be found if anything goes wrong.
Thanks to all those who joined in the Who am I??? event
Chair Rachelle
Mt Victoria Toastmasters Club is a friendly bunch and to prove the point Jacinta brought a camera. The pics show us in our usual relaxed-mingling-mode during the tea break of a meeting at our Friends Meeting House venue.
Thanks Jacinta for these pictures!
Cheers Oliver
Hi all,
Last night was bring a plate night with members bring lots if tempting treats for our extended supper break. This was a very social time and followed on from our recent Restaurant meeting
So not surprisingly the theme was food/cuisine.
Table Topics was based around various food themes and the speakers really entertained us.
We had four prepared speeches two based on travel. Alana spoke of her travels around Europe and in particle the people that she travelled with. Sarah gave an account t of her visit to Turkey, especially Gallipoli and the military museum in Istanbul. This was an advanced manual speech and extremely well delivered.
The break was longer than usual so we could enjoy the food that people had brought. The atmosphere being very convivial.
After the break we had a second speech from Joey (CC-2), a very personal account of why she doesn’t like public speaking and therefore the benefits of speaking at Mt Vic Toastmasters.
We had an Icebreaker (CC-1) or first speech from Pia talking about her childhood and roots in Kawhia. Thank you Pia for introducing yourself to the club!
Two guests came along, one for the first time and one for the second, who wants to join.
The grammarian Nick came up with a challenging word of the night .Gustatory, which may not be a word at all!
Also of note were the very impressive evaluations, all of which were very helpful to the speakers and the audience.
So lots of fun and humour and a really good night at Mt Vic TM.
Cheers
Stevo, Chair for the night
Club meetings fortnightly Tuesdays 7:30PM @
New Crossways Community Centre
Level 1, 6 Roxburgh Street
Wellington, NZ
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