Toastmasters talk the talk
MULDERSDRIFT - Egg and Bacon Toastmasters Club is visited by an international guest speaker.
Bacon and Egg Toastmasters Club welcomed an international visitor to their first meeting of November.
Along with the club’s usual activities of prepared speeches and impromptu speech, known as table-top topics, the club enjoyed the company of speaker Kwaku Anim Boadu of Ghana at their meeting on 5 November at the Barefoot Kitchen.
Bacon and Egg was the first club Boadu visited on his trip to South Africa. Boadu’s prepared speech was on happiness and other countries’ secrets on having happy citizens.
Other prepared speakers, such as Jakkie Naude, spoke on the meaning of the word indigent and how individuals can become indigent, while sergeant at arms, Kevin Marsden spoke as if he were the manager of a company and talked about working smarter and not harder.
Member, Cheron McNab, presented an educational talk about certain roles and responsibilities that make up a Toastmasters club after the speeches. Random members were then picked to give an impromptu speech on a topic they were only given as they got up to speak. As the theme of the meeting was dreams and ambitions, the topics surround ambitions, such as becoming president or writing a best selling novel.
After the evaluation of the speeches, the trophy for the best speaker of the meeting was awarded to Boadu, while Marsden took the trophy for best table top topic speech and Shaun Goodman won the trophy for best evaluator.
Boadu said at the end of the meeting, “Thank you to the club for letting me be here today. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience, as the first club I have been to I thought it was a great meeting and I look forward to meeting the other clubs in the area.”
Details:Egg and Bacon Toastmasters Club, M@nedbank.co.za or 084 353 4020.
