Meeting review: November speakathon fun
Area D3 has been busy achieving goals with another speakathon taking place last week. Thanks to our Area Governor for arranging another successful event, to all the participants for making it such an energy-filled evening, and to our international guests from Germany and the US for bringing some new ideas to the clubs.
For a change, Ana and I decided to do a photo review of the evening. Enjoy!
Pre-meeting pow-wow. Mike is scratching his head already!
Sergeant-at-Arms, Kirsten Pearson, makes sure we all know where the bar is at the Tafelberg Tavern.
Toastmaster of the evening, Vanessa Clark, gets to grips with the podium.
Angela Rothbert of Table Bay Toastmasters completes her CC10 - an inspirational message to the residents of Mitchell's Plain. Congratulations!
Peninsula Toastmaster Abdul Kamaldien demonstrates his cold calling skills with guest Helene Booysen for his AC3.
Lindsay Meiheizen, from Pinelands Toastmasters, speaks off the cuff about the Sunshine House for his AC24.
Good Hope Toastmaster, Mike Fawcett had the audience gasping (with laughter and horror) during the next in his series of Upham tales, "Small boys can't fly" for his CC4.
Mavis Fawcett, timekeeper extraordinaire, tests out Peninsula Toastmasters new set of lights.
Peninsula Toastmasters' President and Area Governor, Ana Garcia, evaluates Angela's CC10.
Evadne Kortje, from Peninsula Toastmasters, capably does a double evaluation after Ana Garcia and Richard Perkins's TV interview entitled "Youth leadership in Southern Africa".
Our visitor from Phoenix, Arizona, Elaine confidently steps up to the challenge of a Table Topic slot, and explains just how she ended up waking up on Paarl Rock (in Richard's fictitious scenario.)
Evadne looking quite happy at Richard Perkins, from Grove Toastmasters, choice of Table Topics.
All still paying attention after dinner! Here are Kirsten, Jazzmin (our visitor from Germany), Elaine and Abdul.
Ah - Richard delivering his Ah report.
What a team. From left to right: Richard Perkins, Evadne Kortje, Helene, Lindsay Meiheizen, Mavis Fawcett, Angela Rothbart, Ana Garcia, Jazzmin Hecht, Vanessa Clark, Abdul Kamaldien, Kirsten Pearson, Mike Fawcett, Elaine.
Thanks for making the meeting such a fun and successful one. Between speaking and leadership credits achieved for the various clubs, as well as meeting Toastmasters from other clubs, and countries (!), this event was a huge success.
Meeting review by Ana Garcia and Vanessa Clark.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:18 am
Great review. They do say a picture is worth a thousand words – and an experience is worth a thousand pictures. It was great being there!
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
What a wonderful review! Please, don’t give me so much credit for organising the Speakathon: I would say that with you and Kirsten doing a third of the work each, the three of us – like the 3 mosqueteers! – managed to pull this through… and with such a wonderful and participative audience, it just couldn’t go wrong!
I am just honored to be around people like you and all of those present. Let’s keep working together for growth!
November 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Thanks Ana, thanks Kirsten. I love these pics – perfectly captures what a really fun evening it was.