Thursday, 30 July 2009 saw Ana Garcia, the newly inducted President for the Peninsula Club, setting the tone for the evening by addressing the club on creativity.

Ana spoke about Peninsula Club as a home for Toastmaster Adventurers.  She talked about how applying creativity to the club would make it a thriving club and about the legacy that Toastmasters can leave.

As Toastmaster of the Evening, Ana warmly welcomed the new guests in attendance to the meeting.  She noted that this was an evening of beginnings and endings, with a CC1 and CC10 on the same evening.

Prepared speeches for the night included:

• Kirsten Pearson introduced herself to the club, doing her CC1 icebreaker,  A pot of gold.  Evaluated by Gerda van der Merwe.
• Andries Viljoen presented a poetically rendered, Facing the Giant.  Evaluated by Abdul Kamaldien.
• Congratulations to Maya Naumann, on achieving her Competent Communicator status, presenting her CC10, The Fountain of Youth.  Evaluated by Evadne Kortje, who commended Maya for inspiring us to make peace with the aging process.
• Tom Bowman elicited belly laughs from the audience, delivering his AC1, Do you smell the Smoke? District Governor for Southern Africa, Craig Strachan evaluated his speech, calling his humour Monty Pythonesque.
• Evadne Kortje entertained us with a Folk tale, The Hen and the Hawk’s Lost relationship, her AC24. Lois Strachan evaluated her speech, remarking on the magic, intrigue and imagination, which Evadne had evoked for us.

Cornel Dannhauser delivered the Timekeeper’s report.  He also amused us with his extended efficiency, when he timed Andries Viljoen’s explanation of the Table Topics.   Andries provided a challenge to those who presented Table Topics, asking them to raise the bar when proposing a toast and provided them with some interesting scenarios to toast.

Table topics:

• Alan proposed a very sincere toast to his son, ‘Peter’, to wish him well as he embarked on his university degree.
• Gerda van der Merwe wished her daughter, ‘Denise’ a happy 21^st Birthday in what also transpired to be a dramatic send off for ‘Denise’ into her Pop career.
• Craig Strachan then toasted his old buddy, Richard, on the birth of his twins. Craig’s novel approach was styled as a beer-to-beer man talk.

All in all it was a very creative evening, with humour, stories and inspiration making repeat appearances during the course of the meeting.

Congratulations to:

-       Maya Naumann on achieving Competent Communicator status.

-       Tom Bowman for delivering the best prepared speech of the evening.

-       Craig Strachan on being the Evaluator of the evening.

-       Our guest, Alan, on delivering the best Table Topic of the evening. Well done!

Thanks to Kirsten Pearson for the report on the July 2009 meeting.

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