June Meeting – a touch of magic!
The next Peninsula meeting will be held on Thursday, 30 June 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm.
The meeting theme is “A Touch of Magic!” Come along and see what we’ve got up our sleeves!
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!
Meeting Review – A Mad Hatter’s Toastmasters Party!
A wonderful evening was had by all on a cold and blustery Thursday night at the German Club!
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
May meeting
The next Peninsula meeting will be held on Thursday, 26 May 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm.
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!
Peninsula rocks!!
Peninsula Toastmasters VP PR, Kirsten Pearson received the Club PR effort award for District 74 (Southern Africa). Congratulations Kirsten!
Next Peninsula Toastmasters Meeting
The next Peninsula meeting will be held on Thursday, 05 May 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm. (This replaces the April meeting, which would have fallen during the time when most people will be taking a holiday.) 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!
February Club Contest
Please diarize the next Peninsula Toastmasters meeting – the Peninsula Toastmasters Club Competition!
It will be held on Thursday, 24 February 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 Speech Contest. Members, it is a great way to achieve goals and improve your speaking skills. There are three areas in which to compete: Prepared, Impromptu and Evaluation Speeches. Please let Club Vice President: Education, Thomas Bowman know if you’d like to compete or participate as a timekeeper, Sergeant at Arms, Demo Speaker, Tally Counter or review the meeting. The winners will go on to compete at the area level and ultimately stand a chance of competing in the Toastmasters International Speech Contest in Las Vegas!
Happy Festive Season!
There will be no meeting in December 2010. Our next meeting is on Thursday, 27 January 2011.
Wishing all Peninsula Toasties and our Toastie friends happy holidays and a wonderful festive season.
Next Meeting this coming Thursday – 30th September
Looking forward to seeing you there…
Meeting review: Competition time
Thanks to all the contestants, who participated despite the fear (as Thomas Bowman put it in his prepared speech “Step into Action”).
Our intrepid contestants: Tom, Gerda, Tim and Vanessa
The contest was smoothly run and well organized by Evajdne Kortje, our experienced and, as Lois Strachan put it (Peninsula’s secretary and much more) “someone who makes things happen”.
It was a clear case of practice makes perfect as the contestants have greatly improved from previous presentations, not just in their normal club prepared speeches but in previous contests. So well done!
Congratulations to our winner, Tim Wagner, who won the International Prepared part of the competition with his Think Bike and who will be representing Peninsula on the Area D3 competition on the 8th of April, Thomas Bowman was second with his Step Into Action speech, a personal tale of courage despite the fear and Vanessa Clark followed in a third position with her You can change your Stars and.
Tim Wagner is congratulated by Evadne Kortje
The Impromptu part of the contest was a tie… yes, all the contestants actually won! (Did I say they had greatly improved?). As it is required in an instance such as this, the Tiebreaker judge’s ballot was counted and the winner was Vanessa Clark, who will be representing us on the 8th April in the Area D3 competition.
Under the word Revolution, Thomas decided to throw caution to the wind and asked a lady in a bus out. To his surprise she said yes and the encounter revolutionized his reality for ever. Then we had Vanessa Clark in second position, who explained to us that you can revolve your thinking about potentially chaotic events and regard them instead as positive and live changing. The choice is yours! Finally, Gerda van der Merwe was third and she told us about her current exciting 3-week celebration of this voluntarily-retrenched, 30-year-old-to-be lady, who is more-than-grateful to life for bringing a challenge she silently has been wishing for… in the form of chaos and revolution!
Vanessa being congratulated by Evadne
And the contest continued… Did you know that the Titanic was one of three sister ships? (I thought it was one of its kind!) And did you know that indeed it was not thought to be unsinkable? (I did!).
If you wanted to know these and numerous other details about the Titanic true story, you would have been in the right place at the Evaluation part of the contest, which was headed by Francois Rossouw with his demo speech: putting the story straight of the 15th April 1912, The sinking of the Titanic.
The evaluators said it: captivating (Tim Wagner, winner), enthralling (Thomas Bowman, 2nd), informative and funny (Gerda van der Merwe) although Vanessa Clark (3rd) had a sinking feeling when the speech started… but considered Francois’ remark “what went down that day” an unforgivable pun!
And if you really wanted to know: yes, everything that happened in the Titanic movie did indeed happen that day! (Including the steamy scene in the car? We’ll never know!) But if you want to know why they chose the wrong steel to make the ship, steel that instead of becoming malleable in the cold, frozen sea waters, would become brittle, please ask Francois. I am sure he will be more than happy to repeat his speech!
Finally, thank you to the newest Peninsula members, Diana Kraak for being our Tally Counter and to Sandra Arendse for being one of our judges (together with Francois and Lois), roles that they took on courageously for the first time and at a really short notice.
And this is what makes our club meetings a success: everyone contributions… despite the fear.
Thanks to Ana Garcia for the review and Craig Strachan for the photos.
Toastmasters Division D3 and Talking Heads Club invites you!
The expert, the truculent, the traveller, the teacher, the toastmaster, the non-toastmaster, the saturnine, the ambivert, the quixotic, the introvert and the extrovert, the egocentric and the rest of you! You! And you!
TO THE “ABC OF SELF-CONFIDENCE”
Talking Heads Club is hosting this event, with special guests, Playing Mantis presenting:
The ABC of Self-Confidence *FUN *FUN*FUN
Can self-confidence be learned? Is there a set of skills you can master and once you have them, you will be self-confident? When you have self-confidence, do you also automatically have good self-esteem?
Learning the skills of looking self confident from outside, is a great way of starting to build your self esteem. You start outside and work inward using the ABC of self-confidence.
Playing Mantis will be using improvisation, so there is bound to be plenty of voluntary audience involvement!
This session will give you:
1. A quick 6 point check list from A to F to help you appear confident even if you are still shaking.
2. A tool for ‘faking it until you make it’ – and making it is guaranteed if you follow the ABC
3. Insight into the link between outward confidence and inward self-esteem.
Playing Mantis uses storytelling and improvisation to customise leadership, team building and personal development workshops for individuals and groups who want to be more motivated, more effective, more innovative and more connected to themselves, their passion and the people around them.
This will be followed by Toastmasters delivering speeches as they would at a normal meeting.
Join us!
WHEN: Thursday, 3rd December 2009
WHERE: Tafelberg Tavern (6 Roodehek Terrace, Off Hope Street, Gardens)
TIME: 18:00 for 18:30 until 21:30
COST: R50.00 per person (Includes light snacks)
E-mail Ana Garcia – anataggy@yahoo.co.uk if you would like to attend as a guest.