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Speech-A-Thon@Mercury
We Toastmasters love speaking and crave stage time. Our lovely VP Education Wendy knows it and organized for us a wonderful a Speech-A-Thon, i.e. a speech marathon (the running shoes were not required!), i.e. an evening only with speeches and their evaluations. Matthias MK and Lukacs hold their Icebreaker speeches. Matthias MK told us about…
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Become a Leader
The meeting on the 6th of May was scintillating. We started the meeting with an award ceremony. Dyane officially handed over the Revitalized Education Program Learning Masters Certificate to Khushi who, along with Anna, is a Learning Master. Khushi has worked on the REP for more than one year, where she invested her time, talent, ideas and wisdom.…
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Mercury Takes Home the Gold! Again!
The winners of Division C1 Contest on the 25th of April in Berlin are: English Speech Contest: 1. Violetta Pleshakova, Mercury Toastmasters Berlin 2. Dirk Brückner, Leipzig Toastmasters Club 3. Friederike Galland, Mercury Toastmasters Berlin English Evaluation Contest: 1. Dirk Brückner, Leipzig Toastmasters Club 2. Friederike Galland, Mercury Toastmasters Berlin 3. Julian Pottier, Leipzig Toastmasters…
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Earth Day
At our last meeting on the 22nd of April the theme of the evening was, of course, Earth Day. Our well prepared Toastmaster of the Evening Khushi set the tone of the evening. She cheered us up by telling us Earth Day and motivated us to act in order to keep our Earth beautiful. Moreover,…
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Area C1 Spring Contest
Our Area C1 Division 95 Spring Contest was held on Saturday, the 18th of April in Rostock. The winners are: English Speech Contest: Friederike Galland Violetta Pleshakova Henk De Bruyn English Evaluation Contest: Friederike Galland Khushi Pasquale German Speeches: Martin Bering Andrej Laue Friederike Galland German Evaluation: Andrej Laue Steffen Pic Congratulations to all the participants!…
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Great Beginnings
Last week we had another wonderful meeting. Our lovely, well-prepared Toastmaster of the Evening Friederike presented the meeting theme: Great Beginnings. She recited verses from the poem, Steps, written by the German poet, Hermann Hesse: “Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne, Der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben. ” “For each beginning bears a…
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And the Winners Are …
Mercury had another great competition on March 25th, 2015! We held the International Speech Contest and the Evaluation Contest. Johanna hosted the evaluation part, and guess who was the target speaker?! None other than Sari Saleh, our past member with tons of public speaking talent. Nevertheless, the evaluators were not discouraged. Each person (Sunder, Dyane,…
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Brent’s Article in Toastmaster Magazine
I am proud and happy to announce that Brent’s article on How to Become a Speechwriter was published in Toastmasters Magazine March 2015 edition (see page 28-29). Check it out!
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Scintillating Evening!
Last meeting we had a scintillating meeting with the theme of the evening being “Fire Up!”. Three speakers entertained us with three scintillating speeches :). Florian delivered Project 7 from the CC manual entitled “Wouldn’t life be boring?”. He told us that Germans tend to always complain. They find a reason to complain even on…
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Banner Meeting!
Last meeting we had a banner meeting with the theme of the evening being “banner”. In the business section, Khushi presented a club banner to the Berliner Rhetorikmeister ‘s President, Peter Rabeneck. Our lovely Toastmaster of the Evening, Violetta, wonderfully introduced the speakers by telling us their answer to her prepared question: “Imagine you had…