October 13_2011 Theme: Books, Magazines, Papers Worth Reading.

Toastmasters

We had a fun filled meeting last night with plenty of laughs and good jokes. The theme; Books, Magazines and Paper was a good theme for last night's meeting. We had myself and Lucy bring a box of paper-backed books. Keith Stoltz brought his IPAD 2 to show us that you can read books and run a meeting paperless.

Joke of the day, by Lucy D’Arcey, was about a children's story where the children thought that God had been lost and they were the ones to blame.

Grammarian, by Jane Stoltz, provided the word "Ambiguous". It was used 3 times which was very ambiguous on every one's part.

Speaker, Sharon D’Arcey, practiced her speech introduction for an event that she will be hosting. She used this opportunity to get feedback and she received good grow points to take with her for the event night.

Table Topics, lead by myself, had a theme about "The monkey on your back". This monkey was something that nobody wanted and each person had to pass it on to the next toastmaster with a good reason why they couldn't keep it. We are given Monkey’s from other people everyday and it’s how we delegate them to others which frees us from those tasks or "monkeys on our backs". The Table Topic winner was Jean Van Der Straeten, our guest and returning toastmaster for the evening.

Quiz Master, Audrey Orth had us thinking a lot of the phrases that each of us used throughout the meeting.

Literary Reading, from Lucy D’Arcey was about good help books and literature about children.

Lorna VanderPloeg, General Evaluator, gave us some good grow points to take home and improve our next meeting with.

Brent Jemmett helped out by stepping in to fill the agenda roles by introducing our guest for the evening and Calling the meeting to order.

All in all, we had over 75 laughs. Everyone had a good time.

Have a good week and hope that all the toastmasters that were not in attendance for this weeks meeting can make it next week for our Youth Leadership Workshop this Thursday.

Let’s make a good impression for our Youths.

Thank-you,

Leo Brisebois