How cold was your coldest memory?

A chilly evening but we made it to our favourite Wednesday night club, wrapped up within an inch of our lives.
Michael soon got things warmed up with the “when was the last time you felt so cold” ice breaker.. (No pun intended!). Everyone got stuck in with all their tales of Skiing holidays, camping holidays…overnight stints in a car and the boiler breaking down.

Michael handed over to Isabelle for her fantastic first time as Topics chair using the Olympics, East London and Cockney slang as her topics.

Chrissy was given the Arron Tank… Alice the Early flowers and Alison the Dog and Phone…but Claire won the Show and the Debra with her cat Tiggy’s sharing of attention to fill her basic needs of food and love.

Gerwin managed a rapid fire Topics evaluation giving praise and recommendation of improvements to all before Chrissy made us all a lovely welcomed cup of tea to warm us up for the second round.

In the second half we had three speeches:
Christelle – gave a heart warming speech about her best friend. How only your best friend can get you though even a cold miserable Monday morning with their thoughtfulness right though to ending up on rocking chairs at the age 90.

Shirley’s speech Ways to happiness gave us the five ways to happiness…
A sense of belonging, helping others, learning, exercise and friendship.

Finally Gareth gave a speech on the History of flying.. Bringing us though the wonder of air travel… how it went from a rich luxuary of champagne and limosene to the vast number of travellers today who dont get as much as a sandwitch!

All passed by their evaluators Katherine, Lissie and Julie with points of praise and a few notes of improvements.

Deborah gave a few minutes of Big ears which Kalley managed to answer all the questions.. Well done Kallie!
Alice brought he evening to a close with the General evaluation and then off to the Alexandra for a catch up and chat about the evening’s entertainments…
Don’t forget on Saturday 25th Feb, William Morris House is hosting the annual Area Contests, so our recent winners from Wimbledon (Alice in Topics, Vanessa in Speech and Katherine in Evaluation) would love to see any supporters on that day. It’s an afternoon event starting at 2pm, its very light hearted and relaxed, and will offer an opportunity for some extra curricular speaking. Friendly and familiar faces in the audience are most appreciated on these occasions.

WSC- A night of job interviews, techniques and become who you are

Tonight an evening of tales and convincing lies about your given profession.. everyone did very well with George’s choice of profession for you. We had Gerwin the “professional dog walker”, Isabelle the “female plummer”, Robert the “marriage councillor”, to mention but a few. Jenny, the Orchastral musician with her french horn stole the show and won the Debra prize for the evening.

After a lovely cup of tea provided by Sam and a natter over biscuits we headed back for the second part of the evening where four of our members gave speeches.

Level 1 – Claire gave a speech on “New Years Resolutions” where Pilates, Spanish and Speakers were the top three. She hopes this year to be in the 5% of people who make Resolutions to keep them up past 31 Jan!!
Gareth evaluated Claire and passed her with flying colours. Well done Gareth also for his first evaluation!!

Level 1 Matt – A speech titled “Evaluations”. Matt broke down his evaluations to two things Communication and Visualise and explained how this helped him recover from a football injury.
Joseph evaluated Matt, passing him commending him for his enthusiasm and use of vocabulary.

Level 3 Alison gave her speech on Interview Skills. She shared her party conversation transition from, what do you do? to the credit crunch version of this is how you should do your interview… The three elements Alison focused on were Confidence, Interest and Handshakes. She involved the whole audience in her experiments which was fun.
Alice evaluated Alison and passed her for her well written speech with the use of three’s and commended her for the audience participation.

Level 6 speech was given by Philippe titled “Become who you are” Philippe drew us all in to the philosophical view point of Niche, questioning what Niche was driving at and what or where we are with our own self. Fascinating.

Katherine passed Philippe and was very complimentary of his use of vocabulary and delivery.

Michael gave a quick Business update and General evaluation followed by Adams cryptic Big ears session which left us all somewhat embarrased at our level of listening!!!!

Chrissy our great chair for the evening drew the evening to a close right on time for a quick catch up next door at the Antionette hotel.

Next session is the Topics competition so don’t miss it.. should be another fun night.

Wimbledon Speakers Club 2012

A New Year of Speech making, competitions and being part of this friendly little club is about to recommence on 11 Jan 2012…we hope to see you there..

Our last event was the “End of Year Speech competition” where our two winners
Vanessa Villalobos and Kally Paulin will proudly go on to represent the club the at the London competitions later this quarter.

Vanessa gave a fabulous speech titled ” Will English Survive?” She brought us though the history of English to date and how our multicultural environment has evolved and contributed to the language. Where the Romans introduced Wine and Cheese.

Kally gave a lovely speech titled “Love it or Hate it” She described how cold her hands get and the invigorating brisk walks in the park with her son.

We had four other contestants who also gave very impressive and interesting speeches:
Peter gave a speech titled “survival”
Shirley gave a speech titled “Survival of the fittest”
Alison gave a speech on ” The Legacy of the Negolthians”
And last but not least Isabelle gave a speech titled “Lets celebrate middle age..”

A really fun night for us all and a big congratulations to our two winners. Here’s to a successful 2012 competition year!!! See you all on 11 Jan 7.30pm.

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