Dear Fellow Toastmaster!

Helen Scream led a spooktacular meeting on Wednesday, where we had many ghosts and guests join us for an eventful night in the DUNGEON!

 🥳🥇 Awards and Celebrations

Don’t be shy, share your life wins and let’s celebrate together!

• We had 6 guests talk during table topics! Well done!

• Congrats to Nick for winning Best Table Topics for discussing his experience being scared walking into a dark room just to realize it was only his little cousin

• Adam won the Best Evaluation award, evaluating Alex L’s touching speech on what Toastmasters means for her personal and professional growth

• HUGE Thank you to Helen for putting together a terrific Halloween themed meeting. Looking forward to the second annual!

 📣 📆 Coming Up

• 🎅 🎄 Toastmasters Holiday Party!

  • Details TBD, but stay tuned to learn more!

 📚️🏫 Toastmastering Together

Let’s get better by learning from each other and sharing resources - also on the footer of every newsletter from now on! If you want to add info or share a Public Speaking Tidbit, let us know!

Some references:

• Golden Gate Toastmaster Resources 

• Toastmaster Meeting Roles One-Pager

🤝 October 30th Club Meeting Highlights

We had an incredible Halloween themed meeting ran by Helen Scream, alongside her creepy functionaries.

Great job to our members who ran Wednesday’s meeting:

• Helen: Ghostmaster

• Prat: Timekeeper of Doom

• Divya: Filler Word Phantom

• Katie: Word Witch

• Arjoyita: Video Vampire

• Gene: Crypt Keeper of Knowledge

• Grace: Trick or Treat Master

• Shubham: Dark Overlord of Evaluations

🙋‍♀️ Help run the November 6th meeting by signing up for roles! 🙋

This Wednesday:

• 👹 Helen gave a short introductory speech on “Ghost of Forgotten Speech” about Sara’s fear of public speaking

• 👻 Sheila opened up the meeting with her 2-minute speech titled, “Tales from the Crypt” about asymmetric cryptography and how it relates to human relationships

• 🗣 Alex L gave a prepared speech titled “Embracing my Fear, Why I Chose Toastmasters” highlighting her experience with TM and how the hospitality industry has shaped her to who she is today

• 🔥 Alex W shares a true story about SF in 1906 where multiple fires erupted after a huge earthquake, and notified us all that SF is soon due for its next big earthquake

• ☠️ Scott told a story of the White family from Petaluma, CA 120 years ago and how they were granted 3 wishes from the “Monkey’s Paw”

• 🎃 Table Topics (Trick or Treats) Speakers

  • Jay: Old student in the battlefield

  • Juan: Convicted felon on death row

  • Hannah: Spooky surprises from an ex-boyfriend

  • Nick: Something dark in your room (Best Table Topic)

  • Michael: Terrible twos

  • Shane: Waymo at a stop sign

  • Rebecca: Blood on the floor

  • Erica: Blood syrup on the floor

  • Derek: Scary balloon in the freezer

  • Helen: Ouija board

  • Tavisan: Ghosted in my dream

• 👻 Evaluators

  • Adam (Best Evaluation)

  • Tavisan

  • Gene

  • Alexandra

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