Meeting update: Friday 13 Sept 2013 Benjamin Toastmasters held a lively meeting Friday 13 September at UC. Sandy did her "Icebreaker" - a lively discussion of her personal history, and therefore how she got to be who she is. Carmen gave a wonderfull speech describing the resources one may utilise when considering or planning to establish a new business. Leona gave an excellent, informative general evaluation. As a final note dues are now due, so we expect to receive emails about this. Regards, Geoff

Summary of meeting of 30 August, and reminder of judging workshop to be held Sat 14th September

We had low attendance at the meeting held 30 August, but nevertheless had some interesting, engaging talks. Keiko ran the meeting as Toastmaster,needing to quickly adapt the agenda due to the low attendance. Tabletopics Master was Leona, who drew the topics randomly from a stack of cards. This generated some interesting, lively, short talks. Dominic did another exercise from the CC manual, this time "get to the point". The talk was on one aspect of the GFC, and had a surprise conclusion. Keiko used the time freed up by the low attendance to practice gving a six minute talk. This was quite a moving talk. It was interesting that two of todays speakers independantly referred to the indirect effects of the second world war on their lives. I haven't heard this theme in Toastmasters before. Next meeting Friday Sept 13. Don't forget the free judging training from 1-4 PM Saturday 14 September. Registration is required.