For the ninth meeting of the fiscal year 2021-22, Toastmaster and User Experience Designer Isabella chose the topic of Birthday.
Sergeant at Arms Bill Scott shared with us zoom etiquette rules. Quote of the day was:
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Toastmaster of the day continued with the theme of the meeting, starting with the surprising reason why she chose the theme: her birthday is this month!
Word of the day, presented by the Grammarian Moises:
elicit, meaning to call forth or draw out something, such as information or a response.
Example: her remarks elicited cheers.
Judy was in charge of timing speakers, impromptu speeches and evaluators.
Our two speakers for the day were:
Steven presenting: “Mega Date Day 2021”, a speech about the events that took place in Steven and his wife’s all day Mega Date, starting at 5:38am on a Saturday 9/4 with a stop at Tacoma’s Le Donuts for the best egg roles. This was the 4th Mega Date© , it made some members jelous of his wife 🙂. Steven is happy to have his itinerary inspire your very own Mega Date!
Bill presenting a Storytelling project: “Learn to look at and see color in new ways“, a very personal point of view about racial responsibility, that talked about color, going from photography, to a pool and contrasting feet ending well crafted closing remarks. A speech with a fantabulous use of backgrounds taking advantage of Zoom’s advanced settings to have the speaker share the stage with the presentation.
Impromptu Table topics master of the day Steven told members what gift they had received from a relative that is frequently off base, then impromptu speakers had to come up with a speech about how grateful they were to receive that gift and how they are going to use it.
– Judy received a hunting knife
– Jovica received a dog that doesn’t get along with other dogs
– Tamsen reiceved galvanized nails
– Cris received a can of Rainier
– Moises received a used notebook
– Saurabh received half a box of bullets
Evaluators Ahmad and Jovica gave feedbacks as presents to our speakers following the sandwich approach: what you did well, areas of improvement, what you did well.
We had two guests in the meeting, Tamsen and Cris who are becoming new members of our club! Come join us and listen to their icebreaker speeches here at Seattle Sunrise Toastmasters!
Our next meeting is September 25th.
hello there! Joined this club in 2020, what I like the most about Seattle Sunrise is that it meets early on Saturdays ;-)
