The meeting of 21st August at Vox Toastmasters IBM began with Dilip sharing his experiences as a Toastmaster and working with mentors at Toastmaster over the past few years. He spoke about his personal development, about power of writing down concise, achievable and practical goals, and the advantages of taking on new leadership roles. He spoke about how the Vox Toastmasters club had been a constant source of inspiration for him to keep developing himself as a leader in all spheres of life. As Dilip calls it his motto from Toastmasters: "Raising the bar", exploring new challenges as you explore your own untapped potential!
His speech was followed by Mohan's address as the Toastmaster for the day as he opened the session by expressing his love for Thursdays as he gets to be a part of fun evening Toastmaster sessions at Vox, IBM. He introduced the humorist of the day Vidya who brought out the advantages of humor in life, use of humor to beat fears and inhibitions and appropriate use of 'the beep' word for cleansing out frustrations. This was followed by a moving speech by Deep about the time around Indira Gandhi's(ex-Prime Minister of India) assassination and the unfair atrocities against the Sikh community. Deep sent chills down the spine as he narrated the details of his personal experiences. He wound up his speech with a call for peace and ability to forgive, as higher traits in building a community. Bhoomaiah expressed his expert evaluation of Deep's speech by calling for enactment rather than narration for delivering a story filled with personal experiences. Deep's speech met all the requirements of the speech manual and his speech was applauded for that.
Isabelle brought back smiles to our faces as she disclosed the table topics of the day. She opened the theme for table topics by narrating her experience of falling into water as a child. We were delighted to welcome 2 new guests XP and Phoebe. XP spoke about a thoroughly wrong day in Vietnam and Phoebe charmed us with her experience as a child where she embarrassed herself by falling into a penny fountain, when she was all dressed up to meet her aunt. Venkat spoke about his experiences on the flight from India to US and how he wondered about a totally new cuisine which included broccoli (uncommon in India), and we had Praveen talk about his experience joining the boarding school for the first time. Phoebe was the undoubted crowd favorite .XP and Phoebe! we would love to see you back!!!
Vidya was applauded for her job as a general evaluator and she emphasized time and again about avoiding filler words and getting the grammar, pronunciation and sentence structure right. XP and Phoebe expressed their feedback about the club being very organized and friendly to new speakers.
So much for the meeting of August 21st! More excitement with Area contests on humor and evaluation coming up in the next few weeks.
-Vidyangi (Club Secretary, IBM Vox Toastmasters)
PS: I will be uploading more picture shortly.
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