Toastmaster 19/11/08

Fellow toastmasters,

Ten members and one guest enjoyed today a meeting where the last last-minute change was in the word of the day: Dave, our Toastmaster, changed from his planned "hope" to "improvisation".

We had an unusual opening for the meeting: everyone introduced themselves to the rest of the audience. This was a suggestion from Lourdes, our General Evaluator for the day: a nice improvisation in a day where one of the two scheduled speakers could not make it to the meeting.

Lourdes and Prudenci volunteered some jokes before we moved to the Table Topics. Mariela, on her first time in the role, conducted them and made us travel: we learned about Juanma's didjeridu purchased in Amsterdam during his band's European Tour, about Joan Carles' experiences in Asia, and that Isa, our brave guest that volunteered for the Table Topics, does not care much for museums.

Lorena gave us a brilliant speech about pregnancy and professional life, that Xavier evaluated. Lorena has to deliver the very same speech tomorrow in front of a scarier audience, and we were left with no doubt that she'll do a terrific job.

Lourdes asked for the Aha counts from Celine, and the times form Judith. No important issues, but no big success for the word of the day. Lourdes' evaluation was very educational.

Then the meeting was closed without any mention to next week's meeting, and without any one of us very sure about what should be done with all our gear. We sure missed Cristine and Maria in their usual roles of meeting chair and Sargent at Arms.

Go and get your role for next week!

-Xavier