August 6, 2009.
W.O.D (Word of the day: Bombastic)
Last night’s meeting was well attended with surprise guests including Tommy, a Jakarta toastmaster member, Amran and Jason. Bali Toastmaster president Ina Jones, opened the meeting in her usual lively manner, and introduced the ‘word of the day’, which was ‘Bombastic’. The TOM was Iyan, who did a great job of explaining the program for the evening. He introduced the GE, Suzanne, who headed up the team which consisted of CC Cakra as Grammarian, Ellen as Timer assisted by Ribek, Cok Ratih as the Ah and WOD counter, Michele C. was the ballot counter.
Reski gave an excellent speech for her 5th project which focuses on ‘your body speaks’. Her speech entitled: ‘Our Family Dentist’ was a fascinating account of her life on Java and how her grandmother played the role of family dentist, pulling out teeth with rudimentary pliers covered in a foul tasting mixture of oil and herbs.
Strong gave a great evaluation of Reski’s speech complimenting her on her excellent delivery and clear organization. The only suggestion he made was that perhaps she could’ve asked someone from the club to come sit in a chair while she mimed her grandmother’s actions of pulling out a tooth!
Since there was only one speaker, Ina nicely filled out the meeting by asking a total of nine people to participate in ‘Table Talk’. Each person was given a quote or word which she or he had to speak about for at least 1 minute. Sasha won the table talk session with her great talk on the meaning and uses of the word ‘play’. Amran also did a wonderful job with his talk about ‘The 3 methods we many learn wisdom’. Suzanne talked about her quote: ‘Don’t go around saying the world owes you anything’, giving an eloquent talk about how we must honor the earth.
It was a fun evening for all and we look forward to seeing many of you at our next meeting!
Written by: Michele Cempaka
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