November 1st review

The Toastmaster of the Day was Paul, whose topic was Saints Day. He was evaluated by Laurie, who said the meeting went smoothly, but we needed longer and more specific introductions. We would like to welcome our two guests for the day Doug and Carmel, who are visiting for the second time since June! Thank you for coming.
Today was our business meeting, which went rather long today. Our treasurer, Laurie, said that all of our dues were in on time, so everyone is current. Lee, as Vice President of Membership, reminded us that we should bring our friends to Toastmasters so that we can grow. As a part of old business, Marisa our secretary reminded us that we have decided to do a speech contest in the spring. With that contest, she said that we will need to work on a date, and securing the library as our place to hold the contest. Lauralee said that our facebook page has been getting 160 people visiting a week, and 467 people in a month. For our blog we have had 119 people read it this month.
After our business meeting, Lauralee taught a mini lesson on the Competent Communicator and Competent leadership. She first explained the boards, which are around the room, and help the club track it's members progress. From there, she talked about how the Competent Communicator manual has the evaluation sheets where the evaluator fills out how you did, and then the back of the book has a chart where you fill in the title and date of your speeches. For the Competent Leadership, Lauralee explained that each of the projects require you to do different meeting roles. The board shows which day you completed a certain role, but the book signs you off on certain roles for the project. As an example, time management, project 4, requires you to be timer, but then you have to serve in at least one role, such as Toastmaster.
Marisa was our only speaker of the day, working on her entertaining advanced manual. She gave the lifestory of her brother's dog in this eight to ten minute speech. In her speech, she talked about how the dog went with her brother out into the wilderness and scouted the perimeter while he worked. Peter was her evaluator, and said that one sign of a good speech was how quiet the audience is, and everyone there was quiet. He also said that her audience laughed at the right time, another sign of a good speech.
Lauralee was in charge of table topics today, whose theme was Halloween turning to Thanksgiving. Lee spoke about how stores minimize Thanksgiving but how we, as a people, very often travel to be with our family on the day. This shows that we value Thanksgiving. Dave was asked what job would you have if you turned into a halloween costume he had. In response to this, Dave talked about how Saint Francis is his patron saint, and he tries to be like him all the time. Christa won table topics today, and she talked about how she tried to dress up as a lion tamer this year, by dressing her dog as a lion, and using a toy they had to be able to "tame her lion", but the costume never came to fruition as she never completed it.

Have a great day!!