Off to Royal City Toastmasters
[UPDATE]: Today, at HNTM: I was the subject of a “Roast” and won table topics
[UPDATE]: Tonight, at SRTM: Elected as the upcoming club president
Objective:
Develop an entertaining dramatic talk about an experience or incident
Include vivid imagery, characters, and dialog
Deliver the talk in an entertaining manner
Assignment
For this project, prepare, rehearse and deliver a five to seven minute dramatic speech, including narration, as you set the scene and describe what is taking place, and dialogue between characters. Use your own experience [...]
The theme was “wisdom”, but my personal theme(s) were “creativity” and “opportunity”. The role of Table Topics allows for thinking well outside of the box. Therefore, what better way to reflect one’s innate internal wisdom than by using tarot cards. Spreading the deck and and allowing participants to select a card and describe it was [...]
This week:
I enjoyed my first Toastmaster role
I started the club web site
Today’s meeting was excellent. Grammarian is one of my favourite roles, although it has never occurred to me (until today) to match my word of the day with the weekly theme of the meeting. However, my word “Prophet” lost itself in the world of the homonym and it’s usage during the meeting was more appropriate [...]