Hello everyone, we’ve accomplished yet another Seattle Sunrise Toastmaster meeting on a beautiful sunny August Saturday Morning. Andy, Vice President of Education, opened the meeting today while our President, Tom, was on vacation. Andy customarily accomplished the reaffirmation of the club’s mission which includes providing a forum for publicly speak and receive friendly, informative feedback in order to improved or maintain great speaking skills. After that, we introduced guests. A long time member, Paul, returned with guests, Kristen and Lexie. More about them in during the Table Topic review.

Our Toastmaster of the Day was Mark. Mark introduced the theme of the day, Summer Reading. Mark creatively incorporated hiking and outdoor adventure into the theme, use hiking guides as his summer reading to talk to the beautiful landscape Seattle and the surrounding Puget Sound beckoning outdoor enthusiasts to explore it before the great weather fades back to the south. Perhaps some in the area feel that as the sun goes, so does their happiness and things fall apart, if only and hopefully briefly.

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Welcome back everyone! We’ve reconvened from a weekend off. I hope all had a great break from toastmasters and were eager to return. 13 August’s Sunrise had willing members ready for Sunrise’s Humorous speech contest. Different than meetings as usual, the format shifted to allow for six contestants.

Andy was the Humorous Speech Contest chairperson, and curated the event. He organized the judges before the meeting to clarify some rules and procedures before the event. He briefed contestants on other procedure pertinent to them. Otherwise, other volunteers gathered and prepared for the contest. Andy introduced Nicole S. as the toastmaster of the Day.

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Hello. We’ve accomplish our last meeting for July. Tom, our president, started the meeting off on time and on theme. The theme was of Meditations. A calm, relaxed, and appropriate environment emerged from the morning push to arrive. Tom customary reminded us of the mission of the Sunrise Toastmaster Club. We provide a supportive and positive learning experience, in which members develop communication and leadership skills. Tom introduced Toastmaster of the Day, Aleli. She spearheaded our meeting a week prior with emails, strongly encouraging members that had an active role to share as much as possible during the formative time for the agenda. This is the time for Toastmasters of the Days to polish the agenda for an excellent execution of the club meetings every Saturday mornings.

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Hello Seattle and Sunrise Toastmaster, we’ve accomplish yet another great meeting. Tom, our President, has been in his new role for a month; reflecting on the Victories and Failures thus far. Speaking of Victories and Failures, this was our theme for the meeting. Tom introduced and explained Seattle Sunrise Mission, a reflection of the victory sustaining our welcoming and open culture week after week. Tom also mentioned that our meetings are now only occurring 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and when applicable 5th Saturdays of the month starting August. It’s worth mentioning that our members do commit to a Saturday morning week after week. Our commitment is unwavering, but a break every now and again is healthy. Read more ›