January 13, 2011 - Theme: Junk Mail in January

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At Linguists of Listowel, we had a great meeting filled with lots of laughs. The theme of for the night was "Junk Mail in January". We had 13 members in attendance and a guest (Heidi's friend - Elsie Havenga). Audrey Orth called the meeting to order with a very good introduction of the chair for the meeting. Leo Brisebois was our chair for the evening and he opened the meeting by telling us all about the different kinds of junk mail out there.

The joke of the day was done by George Nichol, who gave us a very funny joke that got the laughs started. Marie McCutcheon was our Toast and Timer, who gave a toast to Canada and how we have so many plentiful things even junk mail. The Grammarian role was done by Keith McCluskie. He picked the word "fidget" to challenge everyone to use during the meeting and it was used 11 times. He also counted the number of laughs during the meeting and we had a whopping 114 laughs. Next, George Stevers for his role of Literary Corner read a couple of poems called "Success" and "Life is Earnest".

Our speaker Heidi Menzi gave a speech out of the Storytelling manual. She told an entertaining personal story called "On the Way to School". The speech was evaluated by Keith Stoltz and he gave great feedback. We had an Educational Module where Jane Stoltz told us how to set goals and how to plan to reach those goals

Sharon D'Arcey did a very fun Table Topics with the theme of "Junk Mail in January". She had an envelope in front of us that had junk mail inside and we had to promote the junk mail. George Stevers took the award for his promoting of Toastmasters because he comes to Toastmasters for the free counseling. I took on the role of Quizmaster and challenged everyone's listening skills with some of the good phrases for the night. Richard Boertien took on the role of general evaluator, where he reviewed how the overall meeting went.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting.

Brent

Dates to remember:

January 20th - Jeopardy