Meeting #005 – July 30, 2016

Meeting #005 was a speech bonanza! What fun, it was our own “Festival Just for Laughs!” with an amazingly diverse *United Nations* audience. I love how inclusive Toastmasters is!

A little something about our club …

In-depth speech evaluations are the signature of an advanced Toastmasters club. Each speaker has two speech evaluators, content and delivery, and also a round-robin, where all attendees can give their comments. As well, at Beyond Words, a speaker must meet his speech objectives to obtain credit for his speech project. The evaluators decide!

Our wonderful speakers were:

• David Galipeau – CC10 – “Change Your Life” … woohoo, he completed his CC, and then he joined our club the same day!
• Ganesh Santhar – Humorously Speaking #1 – “Socially Challenged”
• Sarah Lerner – Humorously Speaking #2 – “A Day in the Life of Stewey”
• Alireza Azizkhani – Humorously Speaking #2 – “Change Your Words, Change Your World”

All but Alireza met their speech objectives, but he’ll continue working on this speech to attain the project objectives or as a contest speech.

Most Enthusiastic went to Alireza!

Here’s our meeting in pics, what awesome Toastmasters:

Majeda Haidar, Toastmaster

David Galipeau, “Change Your Life” – Congrats on finishing your CC!

Ganesh Santhar, “Socially Challenged”, with Juan Manuel Gonzalez Galindo, his Delivery Evaluator, watching intently

A short THINK FAST! session with  Artem Ploujnikov,  Topicsmaster … bang that gavel! 🙂

Myriam Azzi, Delivery Evaluator for David Galipeau

A captive audience !!

Shaheen Junaid, Delivery Evaluator for Sarah Lerner

Most Enthusiastic, Alireza Azizkhani (sorry for the fuzzy pic)

Artem Plouinikov (Topicsmaster), Majeda Haidar (Toastmaster), Bonnie Mak (Chairperson) & Davender Gupta (General Evaluator)

What a fantastic group of Toastmasters! Thanks RoseLyn for taking the pic, and thank you everyone for making this such a FUN meeting, see you again soon!