UM Masters Meeting - 3rd September 2014 - Back to School

 

Today’s meeting was great. Not only was there a good handful of familiar faces, but an abundance of new ones as well who sat in as guests. Today’s theme was “Back to School”—how fitting! Our club president, Charith, was today’s toastmaster and filled in as the Sgt. At Arms and ah-counter as well.
 

Nora took on the role of grammarian, choosing the word “frenzy”, which was fitting for the day’s theme and was well used among club members as well as guests.
 

Colin provided the day’s humour as well as stepping up to be the Table Topics evaluator. He did a great job in both positions.

 

Mouna was today’s Table Topics Master and asked thoughtful questions relating to the day’s theme, including whether it is preferable to provide a strict teaching method or a friendlier one. Two of our guests volunteered to speak during the table topics session and provided great responses. Great job!

 

Dinesh completed speech #9 in his Competent Communicator handbook.  Although we found out he may not be the best singer, he sure makes a great violin player! Danielle stepped up and filled in as the speech evaluator and provided great feedback using the sandwich method.
 

Mohsin was today’s general evaluator and Amy provided the timer report. It was another successful meeting, see you next week!

Blog by Nora Grieve

 

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