Dear Members, Guests and Friends,
Multifaceted DTM Kip launched us off with Table Topics about Table Topics (Like a circle in a spiral, Like a wheel within a wheel, Never ending or beginning, On an ever spinning reel).* We discovered that…
- TM Carmine remembers memorable speeches - an icebreaker speech where a 25-lb block of ice was smashed and an unprooted speaker who yanked a plant out of a planter in front of a mesmerized audience.
- I, Ana, admire the creativ genius and inventive paramount capacity of contestants who attempt to make sense of bizarroworld, unrelated words. I Won Best Table Topics Award.
- TM BeckyJo denied having opinions about everything but is of the opinion that many avoid contests because they don't want to take it to the next level. She rests her case.
- TM Lois drags a wheeled suitcase with her and empties it on the Table Topics table.
- Guest Elsa reminisced about a Math contest in which she participated years ago and which allowed her to drop her Math books for the rest of the school year. Bravo Elsa for participating!
Then came our prepared speeches…
- TM Jose regaled us with the story of the Three Kings, which were Melchior (Persian scholar), Caspar (Southern India scholar) and Balthasar (Babylonian scholar) who brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn King and invented decorating the top of the Christmas tree with the Star of Bethlehem and eating cake on January 6th in Hispanic countries. He Won Best Speaker Award.
- DTM Kip introduced the importance of a speech introduction (Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon, Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon)*….
As for evaluations…
- TM Marie liked how TM Jose's speech went from general to specific as an inverted pyramid and he spoke in a soothing storytelling voice (Like a door that keeps revolving In a half forgotten dream, or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream)*. She Won Best Evaluator Award.
- DTM Mary Helen praised DTM Kip (from one DTM to another) for placing himself in a little corner of the visual aids and for paying attention to the clock, for once! (For those who may not know, it is rumored that DTM really stands for Don't Time Me).
*Lyrics from "The Windmills Of Your Mind" best listened to under the influence of incense.
The Word of the Day was
PARAMOUNT, adj.
Very important, of highest rank.
Example: Toastmasters is a learning lab of paramount importance to improved communication skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzol7d4VMM
See you next week at the Table Topics contest!
Irreverently submitted,
Ana
Recap Writer/Blogger Extraordinaire
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