Sunday, 8 February 2015

How to Survive a New Year (meeting 1038)

Welcome to a New Year! Our first meeting of the year was held on 30th January.  This was a meeting in which Peter spoke of comfort and Dominic spoke of disaster.  A meeting in which we all had the opportunity to speak in an extended Table Topics.  We welcomed the new VPPE, Peter Herbert and tried out our new web based agenda sign-up system (http://benjamintoastmastersorg.toastmastersclubs.org/agenda.html) for members.

The Word of the Day was “comfortable” and how Dominic managed to use that word in his key speech entitled “How to Survive a Disaster”, I’ll never know.  Dominic presented yet another smooth and stylish speech so that we could all know what to do to survive a disaster.  He structured the speech very well giving a background, a specific example and some very sound advice.  Prepare!

Ianon introduced a wide range of Table Topics including New Year’s resolutions, plans for the future, reflection on the past and preparing for and surviving disasters.  Table Topics speakers were Lili, Karina, Nick, Dom, Linda, Peter and Geoff.  It was very enjoyable listening to Nick quickly developing speaking style and particularly enjoyable hearing Lili’s good news.

Our next meeting is on Friday the 13th.  Maybe some spooky theme may pop up, who knows.  Members, don’t forget to sign up on the Agenda page at the website – link above.

This Wednesday we will also be at the O’Week Market Day, so if you are not already a member and want to have a go, please come and talk to us.

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