Beth emcees our meeting

14 people, including two guests (Hao and Larry), joined us for a high-energy meeting on the theme of Shopping for Food! Highlights:

• Beth opened with comments on shopping for food and introduced meeting’s players.

Sonja shares on not living in Italy

• Newcomer Sonja F. gave her debut speech (Ice Breaker), entitled “Why don’t you live in Italy?” Sonja says that this is what her relatives and friends ask her when they find out she is married to a man born and raised in Italy, whose family owns a restaurant in a picturesque town. She explained why a seemingly ideal situation would not work from a practical business standpoint.

Andrew tells of his youth on the Yellowstone River

• Fellow newbie Andrew W. delivered his Ice Breaker, entitled “Seasons of My Youth,” on what it was like to grow up in the rustic setting of Paradise Valley in Montana. Andrew painted a vivid picture of his boyhood growing up on the Yellowstone River.

• Lisa L. led the spontaneous speaking (“Table Topics”) session with questions on food shopping. New member Tammy won Best Table Topics for the second meeting in a row with her answer on the most interesting item she’s ever bought: pure blueberry juice.

Tammy takes Table Topics twice!

•  Scott and Joel gave feedback to our speakers and Amara evaluated the meeting as a whole.

Our next meeting, on December 3, is on the theme of The 1980s. See you then!

We met at NW Hospital for the first time and were joined by four guests. Bhargav, Tammy, Andrew and Sonja came to see what the program could do for them.
Highlights:

Members and guests writing comments and suggestions for speakers

Scott leads the meeting

Beth on buying low and selling high

• Our emcee (“Toastmaster”) was Scott C., who set sail with remarks on procrastination, and then introduced our speakers and evaluators.
• Beth G. related her story of the stock options v. real estate conundrum as she experienced it (when to hold the options and when to fix the roof!) in “Buy Low, Sell High.” She used Project No. 4 from the Competent Communication manual, Working with Words, as her framework.
• Dave E., an advanced speaker, spoke from Project No. 5 of The Entertaining Speaker advanced manual, Speaking After Dinner, with “The Day is Over, Our Future Awaits.”
• Nicole C. led the spontaneous speaking session on the theme of Procrastination. Guest Tammy took the honors for Best Table Topic.
• Feedback: Lisa L. and Amara D. gave positive comments and suggestions to Beth and Dave respectively, Chris counted Ahs and Ums and Ray evaluated the meeting as a whole. Amara was honored as the Best Evaluator.

Amara takes Best Evaluator

Tammy Takes Table Topics

• Guests Sonja and Andrew joined the club and signed up to do their Ice Breaker speeches next meeting!

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We met for the first time at the  Merrill Gardens Northgate facility.  Highlights:

Lisa’s slide projector

Nicole evaluates

• Today’s speeches focused on using visual aids (Lisa) and arousing emotions (Scott). Lisa gave a practice run of a speech she will present at a professional conference on diseases relating to international travel, and Scott told a story about his relationship with his grandmother. Lisa presented PowerPoint slides in, er, an unconventional way. . .
• Ray served as both emcee (“Toastmaster”) and spontaneous speaking session leader (Table Topics). 
• We had not one but two Words of the Day:  “Ferly” (Amara) and “Poignant” (Mary).
• Evaluators Nicole and Dave E.  gave praise and suggested improvements to the speakers. This was a challenge for each because neither had ever presented a speech based on the manual project involved. But the each did very well because of careful preparation.
• New member Chris tried out the Timer role.
• Guest Norma D. from the Northeast Club did a splendid job as general evaluator! Thanks, Norma!
• Mary took the honors as Best Table Topics speaker with her story of a memorable departure in her life.
• Next meeting will be at the Grace Kitchen in University Village (2630 NE University Village St, Seattle 98105; (206) 524-3071) See you at 7:30 on October 15th!
  

  Mary takes Table Topics

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