Laimons was the Toastmaster of the day whose challenge was to keep the meeting on schedule. Because of people being absent, Laimons organized different roles for people to fill in, and was prepared for the day's meeting by 7 AM. He was evaluated by Pen, who said that Laimons took good control of the meeting, and ran a tight schedule.
There were two long speeches, 8 to 10 minutes. Lauralee was the first speaker being evaluated by Lee. Her talk was "Coal Under Pressure" focusing on how coal can turn to diamonds when its pressurized. In the same way, when we go through trials, we can take our "coal" and change it into a "diamond" or blessing. Lee was Lauralee's evaluator for speech 10. He said he liked her stories and the personal nature of them, but suggested more vocal variety while tell those stories. Anjanette was the second speaker talking about how her perspective has been changed by her son, who spoke about loving going to his grandma's house, which reframed how she saw those family gatherings. Dave was Anjanette's evaluator, who told her that it seemed very therapeutic for her to talk about her mom, and how her emotion was nothing to be ashamed of.
The word of the day was rarefied, which means less dense, given to us by Peter, our grammarian of the day. He was very impressed by the word art used today such as reframing, galleries of the mind, and diamond of determination. To challenge our impromptu speaking, Lori asked us about school. Because of the long speeches, less people were called on, but there was a battle between Peter talking about his experience in Kindergarten, and Lee defending still having cursive taught in elementary school. Lee won the table topics award by talking about how it is important to teach cursive, so that kids can read it, and sign their name.
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