Seattle Sunrise Toastmasters October 22 Summary: Be Prepared
The Toastmaster of the day was Aanya and her theme she chose was, “Be Prepared.” Aanya did a wonderful job of tying in how she prepares when she has speaking engagements. Her takeaway was to have a solid introduction and conclusion and three main talking points for the body of the speech – great advice, Aanya!
Today’s meeting was a little shorter with only two speakers. Our first speaker of the day was Tina who gave her first speech titled, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” from the story telling manual. This was a wonderful story that demonstrated that people are easily influenced and can be swayed easily. In her story, there was an emperor who had seamstresses that were supposed to make custom clothes for him using gold. However, they were stealing the gold and convincing the emperor’s staff and the emperor that there was in fact gold in the clothes. The seamstresses were very persuasive and persistent. By always telling the emperor he had beautiful clothes with gold, when in fact there was no gold, they had swayed and convinced him otherwise. The moral to this tale is to be careful of what you hear because if told something enough, you’ll begin to believe it. Great speech Tina!
Our second speaker of the day was, Andy who gave his 3rd speech (humorist speech) from the CC manual titled, “My Middle Ages.” This was a presentation of how when you turn 50 your body changes. During his 40’s he had some health challenges such as weight and skin issues. Now as he is approaching 50’s he has another type of health issue…. hemorrhoids. When he made his appointment with his regular doctor, an older man that resembles Santa Claus, he found that he was out for the day. Instead, his replacement doctor was an attractive, younger doctor that quickly made Andy embarrassed. As Andy has now entered into the 50’s age bracket, he has found that wisdom comes with age, and that aging actually isn’t what it’s cracked up to be…. but it beats the alternative! Great, funny speech Andy!
