Of pirates, Franks, and inventing the wheel

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Published on Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Written by Ryan
A nostalgic return to the past occurred this evening when Keith, our Toastmaster for the evening, asked all speakers to tell us what time in history they would like to go back to...
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In full control of the impromptus
Mary chose to return to the early pirate years when female Irish pirate Grace O'Malley was harassing Spanish ships as they sailed by..Glenice chose to follow her family roots and return to the days of Anne Frank, whilst Ryan chose to return to the Jurassic period to see a dinosaur..The best return of the evening came from Simon who decided he wanted to go back in time to when the wheel was discovered...he said he'd just like to see the look on that individual's face!
Glenice and Ryan then took up the speakers session with speeches on Commitee meetings and First time cooking dilemmas respectively, whilst Rod, as always, handled the Impromptu session with aplomb.

Glenice swept both the most improved speaker and evaluation awards, Keith the best contribution, and Mary the Impromptu.

Our next meeting takes place on the 11th of August, whilst our humorous speech contest is on the 25th.

As always guests and visitors welcome!

Warm reception for ice-breaker

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Published on Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Written by Ryan
New member Simon provided the primary entertainment this evening with his Ice Breaker speech, entitled, well, The Ice Breaker!
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New member Simon delivers
Simon combined a little personal history with some fine story telling abilities to give us an excellent opening speech. Clearly the 'ordeal' of this opener was anything but an ordeal as he soon signed on for a Transformers Toastmasters membership, and then volunteered to do his CC2 at the next meeting!
Be sure not to miss it.
Keith provided ample controversy with his interactive speech on the energy crises, and what Eskom is doing about the problem. The questions he received were more than enough to prove that he had a message of great importance for the masses..
Other highlights tonight included Jerry's word of the evening - Commune - which virtually everyone managed to slip in somewhere, and the impromptu session, which required participants to speak 'for' a particular concept for 45 seconds, and then switch to speaking against it..as always, everyones attempt to switch their point of view had audience members in stitches.
Keith won the impromptu session, with Glenice taking the evaluation award for her evaluation of Simon's speech.
Toastmaster for the evening Ruth took the best contribution award.
Join us for our next meeting on the 28th of July.
Guests welcome!

Welcome to Transformers Toastmasters' new home!

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Published on Monday, 14 July 2008
Written by Ryan
Transformers ToastmastersTransformers Toastmasters has entered the new Toastmasters year fighting fit and raring to go!
Please send us your This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on our new site, and visit our club calendar to view upcoming events and meetings.
Our new committee has been elected, and we look forward to keeping you up to date with club news and photos in our photo gallery.
Visit us for our next meeting - guests are welcome!