A Full Table....

Wow-- there was a room full of folks at the last TM meeting-- seems like we are becoming the popular place to be! Maybe Wedding season is coming up and there are people who have to do crash courses in MCing? Not sure, but there were double the usual number (16)-- lots of 'visitors'.

I evaluated the Table Topics.

Next Week we have a Speech Contest and I signed up to be an Evaluator of the 'target' person they bring in. Very interesting.

I am not at all anxious right now-- with another 6 days to bone up!

Full House

It was amazing last night to enter the room and have to scramble with my eyes to find an available seat... there were 12 of us there (usually we max at about 8). The energy is really amped up with new members!

I got to be a "prepared" Table Topics Master yesterday and had one of the older members evaluate my work.

Next week I have offered to do my Speech #6... vocal variety... so that the option is open for me to enter the Speech Contest on March 21st. I am also down to be the Greeter at the Door (Sgt. at Arms?)

You Could Have Knocked Me Over With A Feather

So, I bounced off to ToastMasters last night, and when I got there I discovered that I had been assigned the task of "General Evaluator" for the evening. I was shocked! I'm a relatively recent member of the Club (joined in December) and have only done five speeches! However, on the other side of things, I AM fairly mature, shall we say. I guess there is this recognition that people can be stretched and won't actually break.

I felt a little flustered and I made a couple of false starts, but I was guided back. The pleasant surprise was that I was evaluated as GE and have a partial project completed in the Competent Leader Manual-- I hadn't known about that. Next time I am going to be the Table Topics Master and I plan to be evaluated in the Competent Leader Manual. Seems only fair. And next time we need to pay our dues for the next year or six months, whatever.

Three new members. Life is good in Toastyland!