On the 27th October we all met again for the 229th Mt Victoria Toastmasters meeting. The topic for the evening was “Hobby”. With summer coming up hobbies are on the rise again. Especially those that involve outdoorsy tasks and/or sports. The topic should motivate to re-kindle the interest in one’s own hobbies again. Russell M. presented us with the word for the evening, which was “Hobbinton”. Not easy to incorporate but throughout the evening it was used with Mark B. taking the “Toaster of the day” or his excellent & creative use of the word during his ad-lib Table Topics presentation!
Andrew P. ran the Table Topics this evening and brought some interesting hobby-props for the presenters to talk about. The top honors went to the frisbee that was covered in a floral design.
This was followed by four speeches by Mark E. “Why I like Big Day Out”, Mike W. , Mark B. “Waking a Sleeping Giant” and Nick W. “Sadako Saskaki”. All speeches were amazing and three speeches were from advanced TM manuals. This was a treat that we don’t often have in one evening. The fact that three speeches on the evening used the beamer, that was available, was unusual but fun too.
Jacinta ran us through the schedule for TM for the rest of the year and why it is important for us to partake in getting meetings sorted out early. One of the challenges of the night was the ever changing agenda, that would not come to rest. This is an issue as Jacinta pointed out and needs to get a bit better.
Matt H. then brought up the end of the meeting with poignant observations he made in his role as General Evaluator.
Thanks all for a great meet!
Oliver
