Hello,
The Toastmaster of the day was Marisa, whose topic for the day was Broadway. Some of her facts was how Broadway was inspired by the tradition of theater in Europe, and that Phantom of the Opera is the number one hit to this day. Paul as the general evaluator said Marisa did a very good job of transitioning smoothly, and filling in space when presenters were not ready.
There were two speeches today, Dave's humorous speech contest dry run, and one by Christa as a dry run for her training speech. Dave talked about his experience with fishing, and how he got hooked after he caught his first catfish. After the speech, Dave was evaluated by Lauralee who really liked the speech. One of the suggestions that he use more gestures at the beginning of the speech such as as pretending to use a fishing pole when he gets "hooked" on fishing. Conflict resolution was the topic of Christa's speech since she will be presenting on that soon. Her main theme was on what to do if you are out at sea and have a problem. One of her suggestions was to acknowledge what they're saying, then use the word and or but. She also used visual aids which helped to get a clear view of her points and where she got her ideas. Kathleen was her evaluator who was impressed by how wonderful Christa's slides were set up. During the evaluation Kathleen suggested that she work on getting comfortable with gestures.
For table topics, Brian had a theme of the olympics. The grammarian provided us the challenge of adding brouhaha to our table talks. Lee talked about how beach volleyball is an actual sport and how he believes it is a lot harder than we think it is. Lori was asked if she which sport she would want to enter in the olympics. She decided to design her own type of olympics: Writers olympics, where authors are able to read their work and "win" by being published. According to Peter, our timer, each person who participated was in the one to two minute requirements.
Schedules for next week will be posted soon.
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