Feb 1, 2012 Toastmaster Meeting

It was a rainy and cold Wednesday that fellow members and guests met for a toastmaster meeting.
Javier Macías, tonight's toasmaster, started the session with Pablo Picasso's first exposition at Els 4 Gats 112 years ago...
Changes on the agenda... Teresa as Timekeeper, Luis as Ah-Counter and Ana as Grammarian - with the word of the day: Courage/Coraje.

• 1st Speaker: Ana Sanchon, El valor de las cosas, CC-3-6:47- very intersting speech about how industries make things last shorter to stimulate buying a new one.
• 2nd Speaker: Jesús Salillas, El espíritu que canta, CC-7-7:16- a charming trip with a whale
• 3rd Speaker: Djanira Cortesao, Evaluate to motivate,10:39- educational speech very useful for the evaluations the come next!

Marion Chevalier introduced the evaluators, Carmen Pazos -2:28 - for the first and Joan Fabregat -3:49- for the second speech.

Riccardo Agostini presented the table topics - CARNAVAL!

• Marisol -2:20- was Sherlock Holmes looking for the suspect who forgot a cardigan at the last party...
• María (guest)-2:06- presented the secret behind Obama's campaign
• Denis (guest)-2:18- encouraged all of us to participate in the next Toastmaster contest!

Time for the technical reports
And now the awards: Ana for her 3rd speech and Cristine CL completion!

Djanira closes the session with a lot of information:

• BCN Toastmaster contest: 15 Feb -> contact Javier/Jose Luis
• Pride contest: Feb 2
• Prestigious contest: Feb 7
• Karaoke night: Feb 10 -> contact Djanira/Jesus
• Mountain day! - sometime in late spring -> contact Carmen/Jesus
• Wine tasting -> contact Ana/Carmen
• Calçotada -> contact Clara/Jesus

and then some conversations about the new VP Membership happened... stay tuned... 

that's all folks!