Civic Holiday Meeting With Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters Club

It was, indeed, an exciting and special day yesterday in our club meeting because we had fun with our club members and with more than 10 special guests from College Boreal. Thank you to Madam Sahar for bringing all your amazing students!

Our amazing VP of Education, Raf Qutub, suggested for us to have a theme that talks about Civic Holiday. Since I was the chair yesterday, I shared great facts about Civic Holiday that it is celebrated on the first Monday of August. It is known by many names in different provinces like Regatta Day in Newfoundland, Saskatchewan day in SK, British Columbia Day in BC, Natal Day in Nova Scotia and PEI, Simcoe Day in Toronto, Colonel By Day in Ottawa and Joseph Brant day in Burlington, ON and the list goes on and on.

Our humorist, Jason, provided us an interesting presentation on how other countries celebrate their August Long Weekend. For example, Spain celebrates La Tomatina, a food-fight festival where  participants throw tomatoes, held on the last Wednesday of August. 

During our Educational Session, our beloved guests and new members were able to hear 2 great speakers in our club (Nikita and Raf). Great information about Toastmasters International was shared by Raf and Nikita told us his personal and original story about his encounter with an old lady who gave him a bread when he was in Russia. The speeches were very informative and inspirational.

Great evaluation was given to the speakers by our club mentor Jocelyn Vezina. Our General Evaluator, Jinky, did a great job for evaluating our meeting as well as for calling all the reports at the end of the meeting. 

But before I will end this blog, our Table Topics session was an interesting one (as always) especially if the Table Topic Master is Nikita. Some topics were creepy (yeah, creepy but fun!), "out-of-this-world", and very creative. As a matter of fact, our guests enjoyed the topics and they seriously answered Nikita with their eyes rolling (Just kidding!).

For the business session, I covered 3 important things. These are:

1. Room Change: August 17-December 7, 2013 meeting is going to be in Room CL-2
2. Open House: September 7, 2013 (Please don't forget to invite your friends on this event. Spread the news, we are here to help you improve your communication and leadership skills)
   
3. Speech Contest (Humorous and Table Topics): We are still in need of contestants. In case you are interested, please send me an email me at president-1120086@toastmastersclubs.org.

Overall, we had fun and enjoyed every session of the meeting. Thank you to all our amazing club members and to all our guests for spending your Saturday with us. Please don't forget that our next meeting is on August 17,2013 from 9:15am-11:15am at Mississauga Central Library's Room CL2.

Important:

To all Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters members who would like to sign up for roles, please click this link.