Mary, Steve, and Sonja laugh at a joke during the meeting
9 members showed up for the October 20th Seattle Sunrise Toastmasters meeting. Our theme was “Murphy’s Law Never Quits”, and our meeting was led by our club treasurer, Sonja.
Sonja kicked-off the meeting by making a number of musing comments about “Murphy’s Law”. Dick humorously quipped, “Murphy was an optimist”.
Our first speaker of the morning was Nicole. Nicole introduced the Toastmasters Competent Leadership (CL) manual to members. She pointed out that members are here to improve more than their public speaking and the CL manual can help guide their progress. Nicole encouraged all members to bring their CL manuals to every meeting.
Dillibe was our second speaker of the day. He delivered project 4 from the Competent Communicator (CC) manual; the focus was using vivid words. In his speech, Dillibe spoke about the power of living in the moment and enjoying what you have today compared to what was or could be. He shared a number of examples from his personal life to help illustrate his ideas.
Nagisa led our table topics session. She asked members to imagine waking up in an undesirable location. Participants were to convince the club that the location was the best place on earth! Nicole was voted “best table topics speaker” where she convinced the club that a frat house isn’t really that bad of a place to live.
Dick serves as the General Evaluator
Our evaluators were Mary, and Steve. Dick served as our general evaluator and observed, “this meeting started 1 minute early.” Mary won as best evaluator for the feedback she provided Nicole. Steve mused that he needs to attend more meetings because they’re fun!
Our next meeting is scheduled for 11/3.
