We meet at the Pirates Rugby Club at 25 Braeside Road, Greenside on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. That’s across the road from the Bowling club.

Ask the barman for the Old Bones Room.

There is a speakers’ briefing at 18:45 and the gavel goes down at 7pm sharp.
GPS Coordinates: Lat: S 26 08.729 Long: E 28 00.945.

If you are a Toastmaster, you can request a speaking slot on our
programme here: Easy-Speak.

Pirates sells delicious pub grub if you’ve a mind to get there early.
The meeting costs R20.

Our Club Contest is on the 28 March 19:00. BOOK THIS DATE NOW. Contest is open to the public, come see what toastmasters is all about.

Our contest will include the following (you may enter more than one):
-International Speech Contest
-Prepared speech, need a CC6
-Evaluation Speech Contest – Test out your feedback skills
-Humorous Speech Contest – Got a funny story
-Table Topics Competition – General Topic, 1-2min

Fill out this online entry form to enter. Closes Wednesday 21 March 2012 17:00.
Link, http://bit.ly/GTMComp

Just note you need to be a Greenside Member, so contact us now if you want to join. (mail geoffrey.hunt at gmail com)

Just a reminder about Armagedcon 2012, which is a Maxi Toastmasters Conference. I think this basically means big conference that is held once a year. Conferences are great to meet fellow toastmasters from around the country and enjoy listening to the best speakers taking part in the competitions.

So have a look at the program and prices here: http://www.toastmasters74.org/maxicon-overview

Date: 3-5 May

Venue:  Chantecler Hotel which is nestled in the Valley of 1000 Hills, KZN

It was a slightly different meeting on the 8th February. It was our Valentines Meeting which involved a meal at one of our founder member’s house, Sue. We started out with a speech from our newest member, Gene who told us about school, his exchange student trip to Thailand where he got into becoming a interpreter later in life. Nicci spoke about her love for South Africa, the work she does in helping improve leadership skills in children and adults.

Peter used some old cartoons to make the impromptu speeches session interesting. Thanks to Kristy, Priscilla, Quinten, Sue and her husband for taking part in the table topics session. To end off the meeting we all polished the wonderful food Sue made for us.

Quinten also volunteered to be our new secretary for the club. It is always rewarding to help out in the committee. See everyone at the next meeting.

At the last meeting we discussed having our Valentines Meeting (8 February) at Sue’s house. Majority agreed that it would be a nice change.

So here are the details for 8 February 2012, Valentines Meeting.

Speeches will accompany a Mediterranean styled meal.

Cost: R120 p/p (bank details on request), or contact Geoffrey (geoffrey.hunt.10 at gmail dot com )

RSVP: Please let us know if you can come before Monday(pay before 6 Feb)

Time: 6:45 for 19:00 (Wed 8 February)

Address: 48 3^rd Avenue Parkhurst (corner of 3^rd avenue and 17^th street), GPS -26.135848, 28.02048 (link)

We organising someone to watch your cars.

Bring your girlfriends, wives or anyone else with you to our valentine’s meal.

Let Sue or me know if you would like to do a prepared speech.

In an attempt at being a little more organized, we have created a year schedule. This is just for the next 6 months till a new committee is voted in. So please take note of the dates. I’ve also included the committee meetings, members are welcome to join in. Make sure to contact Geoffrey if you would like to attend and he will send you the time and invite. We always open for suggestions and comments, don’t be afraid to speak up if there are problems. Calendar

At the last meeting, we pulled out three speeches and had a load of guests. Our theme was Chinese New Year and according to our toastmaster for the evening, Peter it is the year of the dragon. George kicked off the prepared speeches with a fairly emotional speech about recent event in his life. Ingo, gave his final speech of from the competent communications manual, titled ’3rd side of the coin’. It was all about how effective verbal communication is essential, as he gave examples from plane crashes that had gone horribly wrong due to lack of communication. Christopher the tried to sell a toaster to Sue, helping us with the art of being a salesman.Some of the guests gave us a few unprepared speeches about the fortunes taken from fortune cookies Quinten gave out during the meeting. Our next meeting is Valentines on the 8 February, come on down to Sue’s for a great meal.

Greenside Toastmasters Club celebrated its first anniversary in style with the election of a new club president, Geoffrey Hunt. Congratulations, Geoffrey. We look forward to an excellent second year under your guidance.

Greenside Toastmasters invites you to join in the celebration of the club’s 1st anniversary.

The event will present a special celebratory programme combined with a sit down dinner.
We do hope that you can make it and look forward to your company to make the evening a fabulously festive and fun occasion.

Date: 23 November 2011
Time: 6:30PM meet and greet, 7:00PM meeting starts
Venue: Topo Gigio (previously Fratelli’s) Restaurant Greenside. http://www.dining-out.co.za/member_details-MemberID-3118.html

Partners and guests welcome.
Cost: per person: R20 for meeting and approximately R100.00 for dinner
(Set menu selection)

RSVP: geoffrey.hunt.10@gmail.com by 21 November 2011.

Please advise any dietary requirements.

On the 9th of November we had the Movember meeting, doing our bit to support men’s health (check out http://za.movember.com/). Erich started the meeting with news that our current President, Dean would like to step down from his position. Dean has done a great job as the president, he will be missed. So we need to nominate and vote for another president, please get you nominations in to Geoffrey. The evenings admin was not all sad as Erich received some charter certificates to hand out to the founding members who joined earlier this year.

Sue, the toastmaster took over from Erich to run the meeting with a chat about Movemeber and how we could help support cancer programs to prevent testicular cancer in men. Prepared speeches followed with another cracker from Karen, explaining the daunting task of traveling with a young child which was quite funny. George then told use where real power comes from by using only three simple images of a cock, pig and snake to enhance his speech. Graphology was Ingo’s topic from which he explained to us how you can use a person’s handwriting to figure out some specific character traits they have. Adele, a speaker from Golden Gavel Advanced Toastmasters gave us a talk in which she showed us how to deliver a PowerPoint presentation using ‘Presenter View’. I will be using this technique next time I do any speech with PowerPoint.

The impromptu speeches session included topics such as ‘what is the best thing about a moustache’ and ‘what would I do to help out a charity’. We ended off the meeting with information about celebrating our first anniversary on the 23 November.

We had 6 guests visiting us for this meeting, thanks for attending!