Guest tonight was Ryan and we are delighted to
say that recent guests Sunjeet and Angana have
become Toastmaster members. Great
news and a warm welcome to Riccarton Club to both
of you.
Sgt@Arms Richard welcomed our guest Ryan and
opened the meeting telling us what to do if we need
to escape the building quickly because of emergency.
Toastmaster Mark S encouraged us to grow moustaches
for MO-vember - Men's Prostate Cancer Awareness.
Prostate Cancer is the biggest cancer killer of men in NZ
Day inHistory Shailesh had a great list of things that
happened this day - Queen Elizabeth II got married and
Microsoft reslease Windows V1 among events.
1st Speaker Aman with his"Icebreaker" speech told us about
coming from Nepal, becoming a an Electrical Engineer and
suggested to us that if the power goes off in Christchurch
is could just be his fault. Great first speech and definitely
a candidate for humourous speeches later on. Well done.
2nd Speaker Sasha with "Why I became a vegetarian"
was a text-book example of a minimalist
PowerPoint presentation i.e. few slides and only 2 or 3
headlines on each slide. I didn't realise until tonight that
carnivorous animals have more than the 2 pointed canine
flesh-tearing teeth/fangs humans have. Whether Sasha
has persuaded us all to become vegetarians remains to
be seen but her speech was excellent.
3rd Speaker Gail gave an Educational "Select your topic"
gave great hints how we can all become better speakers
by choosing better topics. Great speech Gail.
Tabletopics Master Jitendra carried on his personal
theme The Christchurch Earthquake:
Sunjeet: spoke to "The Student Army"
Gail: spoke to "Sleepy Firemen"
Elena: spoke to "Dust Storm"
Shailesh: spoke to "The CTV Building"
Ryan: spoke to "Rescue in City Mall".
Great off the cuff speeches everyone and
congratgulations to guest Ryan for carrying
off his first speaking experience so well.
Very well done everybody.
Timer Ladi did an excellent job on the stop-
watch and traffic lights having to use the
"hippo" alarm only once for speaking over time.
Christmas Party 6th December 4pm - 7pm
at Richards 7 Elmwood Drive, Prebbleton.
Bring your children/wife/husband and
something to eat -bread/salads/desserts
meat supplied by the Club. Warm water
swimming pool and lifesaver on watch.
Please email Richard urgently and let him
know how many people you will be bringing
with you..
See you next week. Same time. Same place.
Blog prepared by Julie Power