The next Peninsula meeting will be held on Thursday, 25 August 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm.

The meeting theme is “Hollywood: A night with the Stars!” Come along for red carpet treatment! Prepare to be dazzled!

The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting; a map and directions are here: http://www.peninsulatoastmasters.info/directions/ Guests are welcome!

Please diarize the next Peninsula Toastmasters meeting – the Peninsula Toastmasters Club Humour Competition!

It will be held on Thursday, 28 July 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm. The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting. Map and directions are on the website.

*** This is not a regular club meeting, but rather a Humour Contest. Members, it is a great way to
achieve goals and improve your speaking skills.

Dr Petro Janse van Vuuren will join us as a guest speaker. She will be speaking on the topic “Grow your Voice to Speak with Confidence”.

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GROW YOUR VOICE TO SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE

Do you appear confident and competent as you speak?

Do you sound inviting and engaging?

Does your audience experience that you care both about your message and about them?

There are only two things that can interfere with your ability to answer yes to all three these questions: tension in your body and fear in your heart. When your body knows what to do, it can help you control your feelings and focus your mind.

As with training for a marathon, your body needs to unlearn bad habits and relearn new ones so that speaking invitingly and confidently becomes automatic.

Petro will share with you three basic principles for using your voice to invite rather than invade or worse, just fade:

· a good posture that helps you relax and communicate confidence

· using your breath to control your voice and your nerves

· producing a rich warm voice that invites attention and instils trust

Petro Janse van Vuuren (PhD) has been training and coaching voice work for the last 18 years, both as a trainer of actors and presentation-skills teacher. She honed her skills first as school drama teacher and then as actor and director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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Guests are very welcome to join us for some informative and uproarious Toastmasters fun! Email Club Vice President, Public Relations – Kirsten Pearson to rsvp. kirsten@lightyard.net

The meeting theme is “A Touch of Magic!” Magician, Marcel Oudejans will be our guest speaker.

Marcel will be talking about adding “magic” to your presentations, including:

• How to add humour
• Using props
• Why you should include other skills
• Encouraging participation
• Timing and drama
• How and why you should ‘wing’ part of your presentation

The talk will include participation and demonstrations.

The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting; a map and directions are here: http://www.peninsulatoastmasters.info/directions/ Guests are welcome!

ABOUT MARCEL OUDEJANS – CORPORATE MAGICIAN & INFOTAINER

Since 1999, Marcel Oudejans has been instrumental at creating successful events for over 150 corporate clients. His enthusiasm, charisma, passion for business & ability to leave audiences shocked, amazed & laughing has been internationally acknowledged & Marcel is therefore considered by his peers to be one of Africa?s leaders in the field of interactive corporate „Infotainment?.

He is an enthused „Infotainer? providing a tailor-made performance; a form of corporate entertainment cum inspirational speaking that generates a positive long-lasting message of self-empowerment. Marcel possesses an in-depth understanding of sustainable business practices and imparts his expansive knowledge earnestly. As a keen student of marketing & advanced sales techniques, Marcel has studied various methods of persuasion, psychology, neurolinguistics, hypnosis, human behaviour, body language & presentation from internationally recognized experts.

His performances have included keynote presentations, tradeshow lead generation, corporate dinners and product launches as a corporate event entertainment specialist with particular focus on making events unforgettable. He is also skilled at providing Customized Infotainment presentations for sales events, trade shows, product launches & product training. As well as offering “Flow Marketing” training – enabling delegates to market effectively & effortlessly. His Keynote Presentations, for team-building events, can be customized to each client’s selected message.

Apart from of his very busy performance schedule he also currently serves as the Vice President of the Cape Town Chapter of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa (PSASA) and sits on the Board of Directors for the Upliftment Programme.

The theme of the evening was a Mad Hatter’s Toastmasters Party – and Wow! The 18 people who attended really went all out to be crazy mad hatters!

There were a great variety of very interesting hats – from the weird take on the Top hat by our
Area governor Chris Callaghan to a wonderful Pirate hat worn by a guest, Chrisna, (who eventually won the Mad Hatter Prize – presented by a very unbiased Chris Callaghan!

The Toastmaster of the evening, Thomas Bowman, had many mad hatter quotes to
keep the gathering confused and downright mad!

There were 3 fantastic speeches delivered. Diana Kraak used her gestures to describe a marvellous journey, Chris wondered where all the best people had gone (possibly Peninsula Club?!) and Bill Russell from Ernest and Young Club presented a practice speech for his next day’s presentation and made us all believe we had just graduated and the future was full of LEADERS!

After some tasty Mad Hatter snacks, the Evaluators delivered their concise and thoughtful evaluations. Then it was the turn of Diana Kraak to present table Topics – our time to think on our feet. The idea was to draw an item from her little bag of tricks and we had to explain how we used the item. It sure was fun!

Kirsten Pearson peppered and twisted her grammarian slot with many well listened phrases!

Then our President elected the committee for the next Toasties year and the officers were duly chosen. Some brave souls agreed to take up our vacant positions and now we are ready for a very good year next year as Thomas Bowman (president) will lead his team to victory!

It was a fantastic evening full of fun, laughter, good education and everybody participating to make our club the special club it is.

Thank you to everybody for making it so great!

Our next meeting is the 30th June – and I know you will all want to be there!

Thomas Bowman

The meeting theme is “A mad hatters Toastmasters Party” Please come along wearing your favourite hat!

The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting; a map and directions are here: http://www.peninsulatoastmasters.info/directions/ Guests are welcome!

The meeting will be held on Thursday, 31 March 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm.  The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting.

Wishing all Peninsula Toasties and our Toastie friends happy holidays and a wonderful festive season.

Remember the next meeting will be on November 25th, usual venue and time. Note that there is no December meeting, so this is your last opportunity to attend Peninsula before 2011!

Also, welcome to the new members of the club committee. The entire committee is now:

• President: Craig Strachan
• VP Education: Thomas Bowman
• VP Membership: Diana Kraak
• VP Public Relations: Kirsten Pearson
• Secretary: Lois Strachan
• Treasurer: Craig Strachan
• Sgt at Arms: Adelin Nduwayo

See you at the next meeting

Craig

Don’t forget our meeting tomorrow evening, regular venue and time. Except note that Tafelberg Tavern is now called the German Club (which was it’s name many years ago), but everything else remains the same.

See you there

Craig

Bright and shiney award

There is only one word for our club – FANTASTICABULOUS (lucky there is no grammarian around!)

There is humour, great speaking, teaching, and as one of our fabulous guests said : “You have a lovely way of presenting communication.”  As always a fun-filled evening.

Evadne set us to order and effeciently opened the meeting. Then our smiling president welcomed all and set the wheels for a great evening in motion.

Tim Wagner had a theme that was definitely not soccer! It was about tourists – shame!  He kept us glad that we were locals and not gullible tourists!

After telling us that tourists thought that there were elephants roaming the streets, he proceeded to explain all the functions and structures of the evening. I am sure the guests appreciated it. And with the wet winter Cape rain hurtling down outside, we began the speeches.

ADELIN NDUWAYO did his CC1 and introduced himself with flair! His evaluator was our very own SARGE – Evadne. His title was MY HISTORY AND AMBITION. A very funny speaker who explained he was a linguist through sheer number of countries he had been in! And his ambition was to be president of Burundi. One of his great jokes was that he was looking for a J O B (which stands for Just Over Broke!)  An important message from the speech – : Take any idea and keep pressing it – and people will accept anything.  A great opening speech ADELIN.

"President" Adelin delivered his ice-breaker

Next was RICHARD PERKINS who spoke about ALL ABOUT ME in his “Ice Breaker” Evaluated by Money man Mr Strachan. Richard was introducing himself – again~!  An advanced speaker of many speeches, he is going through the beginning process to hone his skills. In his speech he talked about attendingf 13 High schools – he was well schooled! And he joined the Navy – referring to it as PUDDLES OF WATER! There was the tale of girlfriend number 1 of …. 13!? He processed milk at Clover and enjoyed the creamy fruits of sucess with milkshakes! And now he is a teacher – brave man wielding red pens!  A great speech and we learned even more about you – thank you RICHARD!

Last but not least was PULENG doing her CC3 (Getting to the point) With her title WHERE IS TECHNOLOGY GOING IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM. Her evaluator evaluator was Our President Ana.  In 1901 a man fell asleep and dreamed he was in the 21st century. He was amazed to see technology – the travel system, money – using plastic cards! Even child birth was easier – you could choose how to have the birth or the sex of the child. The only thing that had not caught up to technology was the education system. If we are to educate youngsters in the 21st century in a way they understand, we have to use the technological tools available.  Thank you Phuleng for a very thought provoking speech.

Then after some tasty snacks, the evaluators did an excellent job of giving points of encouragement and points of improvement. The level of evaluations in our club is very high – keep up the good work!

Then the turn of Craig to Turn the tables on us at Table Topics. His topic was Places.

First speaker was TOM (me) who was asked where he was born and if he would like to return there. I said that on a point of order I was born in my moms tummy and would not like to return there. Then I said I was born in JHB and was now definitely a Capetonian and proud of it!

Next was GERDA who had the choice to live anywhere – and she chose not only to be president of but also own – VENUS! Creating the rules – of love! And creating hotels and resorts. Sounds like a fun place to see!

Then ADELIN who decided he wanted to visit RUSSIA because there was great vodka, muscular women to carry your bags and … bears?  Scary!

TIM told about his worst holiday experience when he was 14 in West Africa where small bush fires lit the way on the runway and there was a very unique self-help baggage retrieval system! And then he had a banana split – literally!

EVADNE was asked she would never like to go to. OUDTSHOORN – Sun is too hot there, and nothing changes. The pictures of the place from years before are still the same!

And finally PULENG spoke about her best holiday experience – a picnic holiday – which is only 1 day in her culture – where she fed men and made faces while looking for soul mates using a borrowed car!

Finally Ana implored us all to think about serving on the committee as we have positions still unclaimed!

Congrats to the Winners

Best Speaker: Puleng!
Best Evaluator : Evadne!
Best Table Topic: Puleng!

Remember next month our next new committee will be induced … er … inducted!  Be there!

Puleng receives her well-deserved awards from Ana

Thanks to Tom Bowman for the review, and Craig Strachan for the photos.