It is always a very special time when something is done for the very first time. In our last meeting we had the pleasure of having not one, not two but three icebreakers and a first advanced speech to boot. The show was opened by legendary debater and toastmaster of the evening Paul Carroll, ably assisted by Lindsey doing his very first role as timekeeper. Closing the functionary team were grammarian Marina and vote counter and sergeant at arms, Edwin.
Rosie started off the speeches with her Icebreaker ‘Influential People’ on who influenced her life so far, including her brother due to take up the Arch to Arc triathlon this year. Eddie followed her with ‘A Fortunate Life’ tracing his journey from Ghana, to France and eventually to ten years initially unexpected years in London. Prateek closed off with a punchy speech ‘Why live an ordinary life?’ and his desire to stay true to his dreams and ambitions. Daniela then did her firsts speech from the Speeches by Management manual, where she role-played taking over the management of an IT Service team and tacked a Q&A session from us posing as her employees.
Rising up to the challenge of evaluating these four speeches, were Terry, Fahad, Sergey and Marina.
Club sponsor Warren Sheng launched a table topic session themed on China, but also incorporating other very open ended questions such as “where will you do in two years”. Evaluating the entire evening was district 91 PR officer Dorothea Stuart.
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