Dear {{First name | 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!
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🤝 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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