Boaters Toastmasters

Toastmaster club. District 72, New Zealand. Rakaia Building, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Madras Street, Chch.

Archives for May, 2025

Overlooking a misty valley from the top of a steep hill in a rural lush green edge of the jungle landscape

The road to becoming a speaker

The theme of the meeting was Road Trips and Dean, our Toastmaster, described members’ road trips throughout the session. This brought us all together with a common theme where everyone had a story to tell. It was an opportunity for a great deal of laughter with Dean’s dry delivery. The session kicked off with Dan, ... read more.

Woman in a bright pink dress and denim jacket stading in front of a whiteboard and powerpoint presentation giving a speech

Table Topics – who will survive?

Sergeant at Arms for today was Alana Bogart who got us underway right on time. Dan Vann, Toastmaster of the day introduced the theme for the morning, Survivor, this saw us split into two teams, in Fiji, with not much to eat. Grammarian was Shaun Jacob who set everyone the challenge to use “Boggle” for ... read more.