Six members and 3 guests attended this week’s Seattle Sunrise Toastmasters meeting this past Saturday.  The theme was Live in the Moment!  Our Toastmaster was Steve and he wasn’t kidding when he said he had a surprise for the attendees.  A story about a broken printer and no printed agenda!?  Oops! Fortunately, members knew their roles and the whiteboard made for a suitable substitute for a paper agenda.

Steve started the meeting by expressing his disappointment that the Toastmaster of the meeting doesn’t get the rap the gavel as a part of his duties.  He then introduced Dave as our Timer and Maryallene as our Grammarian.

Nicole was our speaker for the meeting.  She gave her 10th speech from the Competent Communicator manual.  The title of her speech was Risky Lifestyle and she spoke about the importance of selecting the right foods to eat.  She was awarded her Competent Communicator badge at the end of the meeting.  Great work, Nicole!

Table Topics master, Sonja led a hilarious impromptu speaking exercise.  She surprised everyone by revealing the Table Topics Questions iPad app!  The questions prompted such a wonderful set of responses that Seattle Sunrise toastmasters recorded its first ever four-way-tie for best table topics!!!  Including two members and two guests.  WOW!

Rich evaluated Nicole’s speech and Scott was the General evaluator for the meeting.  As our grammarian, Maryallene ended up with a homework assignment to research the difference between “preventive” and “preventative”.  Turns out one’s a noun, the other’s an adjective.  Who knew!?

At the close of the meeting our president, Scott, pointed out that Toastmasters is the place for learning and for making mistakes in a supportive environment.  It’s okay to forget a printed agenda at Toastmasters.  Your employer may not be as forgiving.

As always, enjoy the next two weeks and we’ll see you at the next meeting!

Our next meeting: December 15 @ 7:30 in Northwest Hospital

 

The November 17th Seattle Sunrise meeting was another fun event.  Two guests showed up and Toastmaster Nicole lead the meeting.  The theme was “Forces of Nature”

The first speaker, Madeleine, told us How to Dazzle Any Audience Anywhere. She referred to 3 of Toastmasters’ advanced speaker manuals in her speech Speaking to Inform, Story Telling, and Persuasive Speaking. She also gave us examples from her own experience as a speaker to illustrate how each may be used to dazzle an audience.

Steve continued his journey toward Competent Communicator by completing project 6 Vocal Variety. He used the second part of his talk series on becoming your own primary care physician to do this. He shared 5 key things everyone should do to empower themselves when interacting with the medical community.

Guest Table Topics Master Tammy helped us practice our Impromptu speaking skills with various questions on how we have or would handle certain emergency situations.

Guest General Evaluator Lew helped us close the meeting with an overall evaluation of today’s meeting with a particular focus on Scott’s and Dick’s evaluations of our main speakers. The meeting adjourned at 09:00

Dave Eberhardt, Secretary

President Scott opened the meeting at 07:47. After conducting a round of introductions from all members and guests he turned control of the meeting over to our guest Toastmaster Rich. Our Table Topics Master for the day was also a guest, Brian.

We had two great speakers this morning. First was Nagisa, she was working on Project 8 of the Competent Communicators manual, Get Comfortable with Visual Aids. She told us of her involvement in the Tomato Battle in Seattle; how she got involved; and the battles origins in Spain.

Second was Stephen. He was completing project 9 from Competent Communicators manual, Persuade with Power. He helped us understand about why each of us should Become Your Own Doctor (You are your first responder!). He helped us understand how our personal health is connected to the world around us and how we should be in control not a doctor.

Brian lead us in a series of questions related to the Presidential elections for Table Topics, our opportunity to practice impromptu speaking. Rich won the ribbon for best response.

Dave And Scott provided great feedback to Nagisa and Stephen on their speeches and Sonja evaluated our overall meeting.

Scott then ended the meeting 4 minutes early with a reminder about the District 2 conference happening at the Lynnwood Convention Center on Saturday, November 10th.

Club Secretary
Dave Eberhardt