Nicole explains the contest rules
Today we held our club’s Humorous Speech & Table Topics Contest. Our acting president Scott launched the meeting by introducing the theme of the meeting and welcoming our guests. We had one returning guest Adrian, and two new guests, Ndingin and Eurayna. Then Nicole, as today’s toastmaster briefed the meeting roles and responsibilities.
At the Humorous Speech Contest, our first contestant Dave’s topic was “Things Happen”. He shared his funny story at the Vietnam War when he and his buddy’s action was somehow matched with the war dog’s action in military training, while they were planning to play basketball. He concluded that sometimes things just happen and don’t go the way you want.
Dave adds gestures to his speech
Our second contestant Steve presented about his “autopilot” story from high school. He talked about how his buddy in high school forgot to put on his speedo after a swimming training, whiled being watched by everybody. After much hilarity, he suggested that don’t engage in autopilot when you are in a speedo.
Petra uses visual aids in her speech
Our third contestant, Petra taught us the driving lessons about manual cars. She grew up in Slovenia in an engineering family. That’s why she learned to drive sticks. She talked about how to engage the clutch and gas pedal at the same time in order to shift gears, and also how to start the car at an uphill. She suggested that while you don’t need a third leg to drive a manual car, you would need a third hand to text while driving. So no texting while driving.
The Table Topics Contestants were Michelle and Steve. The question was “is it better to watch or to be watched”. They both answered that they wanted to watch than to be watched. Michelle stated that as her maturity evolved, her talent lied when she watched. Steve said he would only want to be watched on a stage.
Angie describes the Table Topics timing
Then, our district representative Lance and acting president Scott announced today’s winners. Dave won the first prize in Speech Contest, and Petra was the runner up. For Table Topics Awards, Steve won the first prize and Michelle was the runner up. The winners, Dave and Steve would represent our club at the regional contest in Snohomish PUD on Oct. 5th.
Michelle is runner-up in Table Topics Contest
Petra is runner-up in Humorous Speech Contest
Steve is winner of Table Topics
Dave is Winner of Humorous Speech contest
Our acting president Scott received the Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) Award, and then he went on to close the meeting by introducing the theme of our next meeting, SpeEch a tHon. It was an incredibly fun and successful contest for today’s meeting.
