Written by Svetlana
Introduction
Bloomsbury Speakers Club hosted its regular meeting on Monday 26th October 2015 with an enthusiastic opening from President Helen encouraging and advising the future and current speakers that each speech should contain a message, which should be delivered with clarity and athenticity.
Prepared Speeches
After the Introduction, Helen handed the meeting over to the Toastmaster of the Evening, Peter F., who introduced the theme of the day – Moments of Embarrassment. A very dramatic question was handled mainly with humour and wit.
Functionaries of the day were: Michelle, the Timekeeper, and Zita, the Grammarian, who introduced the word of the day “Alacrity”
There were three prepared speeches on the agenda. The first speaker was Peter R. who delivered his No. 2 Speech, entitled “It’s Impossible” with humour and passion revealing to us that three most widely spread technological advances such as plane, computer and television were predicted as impossible to sell and to have a market in the world. Tracey delivered her No. 6 speech project entitled “18th Birthday?” about a very memorable 18th birthday party where a family decided to have a very big guest list, but the evening turned sour and then very-very sour. Helen’s Advanced Story telling speech “The Dinner Bill” was devoted to gender equality in relationships – a rather innovative topic for toastmasters, which kept everybody’s attention high!
We had warmly hosted guest introductions from Swarajit and thorough evaluations from Svetlana, Sheldon, and Robert.
Table topics
The table topics session was conducted by Janet and the theme was all about those Embarrassing Moments:
Margarita told us about a real life story how her trousers ripped in parts in a public place in the presence of her co-workers and she became famous in several country offices of her company with photos!
Marco told us what happened when his best friend’s mum heard something he would not want her to hear!
Laura told us how her trousers fell down on a sports day at school!
Heleana shared her worst best case scenario about an imagined first date when a loo roll was hanging from her trousers behind her and she knew exactly what to do!
Anya told us what could happen if she was texting while walking and walked into a pole in the presence of a very good-looking guy. She would use it as an opportunity to strike a conversation depending on how badly she would hit the pole of course!
Magdalena told us that sending an incorrect email to her boss would not spoil her career as she would handle the situation towards a positive outcome.
Fabiano told us about a 10-year-old boy who confused a cop for a friend.
Sonya said she would turn around a situation where she sent a nude photo of her husband to a wrong person.
Hari gave a concise and informative evaluation of topics speakers with some useful analysis and tips for improvement.
Grammarian Zita’s report was quite substantive.
Kate McNeilly provided an excellent and thorough general evaluation of the evening with recommendations to all functionaries of the evening and evaluators who were not evaluated.
Awards
Best Speaker award went to Helen; Best Evaluator award went to Hari; and Best Impromptu Speech award was handed to Heleana!
Next meeting
Our next regular meeting is on Monday, 9th of November upstairs at Wedge Issue, 91-95 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1R 5BX. Doors open at 6:30pm.
