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Apr. 3rd, 2014 02:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherDid another project speech at today's Toastmasters meeting. Only a year after the last one, which counts as good going for me; I've been procrastinating wildly on these.
It got an entirely positive reaction, somewhat to my surprise, because my attention had been directed to its shortcomings - none of which were remarked on by anyone at the meeting. I still think it needed at least one more serious revision pass to really shine (and to meet the project objectives), but in retrospect, I'm willing to admit that it was a pretty good speech.
As a nice bonus, it was evaluated by one of the club's star evaluators, who won the club's Evaluation Contest late last year, went on to do well at the Area Contest, and will soon be representing our Area at the Division Contest. (The winner of our club's International Speech Contest, which is run in parallel with the Evaluation Contest, has also made it up to representing the Area at the Division Contest. He remarked this evening that he's kind of looking forward to putting his contest speech behind him and returning to the good old days of being able to talk about something different every meeting.)
Other Toastmasters news: Members of our club recently arranged and ran the first meetings for not one but two new local clubs. (One is based at the local institution of tertiary education, with a mainly student membership; the other is a Gourmet club, which meets monthly and includes a meal at each meeting.) If they both take off, we'll have enough local clubs to qualify for our own Area, instead of having to share an Area with a couple of clubs 600 kilometres away.
It got an entirely positive reaction, somewhat to my surprise, because my attention had been directed to its shortcomings - none of which were remarked on by anyone at the meeting. I still think it needed at least one more serious revision pass to really shine (and to meet the project objectives), but in retrospect, I'm willing to admit that it was a pretty good speech.
As a nice bonus, it was evaluated by one of the club's star evaluators, who won the club's Evaluation Contest late last year, went on to do well at the Area Contest, and will soon be representing our Area at the Division Contest. (The winner of our club's International Speech Contest, which is run in parallel with the Evaluation Contest, has also made it up to representing the Area at the Division Contest. He remarked this evening that he's kind of looking forward to putting his contest speech behind him and returning to the good old days of being able to talk about something different every meeting.)
Other Toastmasters news: Members of our club recently arranged and ran the first meetings for not one but two new local clubs. (One is based at the local institution of tertiary education, with a mainly student membership; the other is a Gourmet club, which meets monthly and includes a meal at each meeting.) If they both take off, we'll have enough local clubs to qualify for our own Area, instead of having to share an Area with a couple of clubs 600 kilometres away.
