Category: Mercury Newsblog
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Evaluation Workshop@Mercury
Last Wednesday our VP Education, Wendy, held a wonderful workshop on evaluation. She led us on our journey to become Evaluation Mavens. After a quiz, she told us about the three levels of listening. When entering the evaluator skin, we need to be a type three listener. This means listening fully and creating empathy with…
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Poetry Evening@Mercury
Creativity was in the air at our last meeting. We had a special meeting with a Poetry theme was organized by Jeremy as Toastmaster of the Evening and Dyane as Table Topics Master. Starting with our introduction round, some members introduced themselves with rhyme: “My name is Gray And to my great dismay I looked…
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Seek Positive
The theme of the evening at our last meeting was Lies. As part of his wonderful preparation, Toastmaster of the Evening Jürgen and Table Topic Master Nikolaos coordinated in advance, thus both the prepared speech session as well as the Table Topics session used this theme. Moreover, Jürgen contacted the speakers in advance and collected three…
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Words of the Day
Adept: very skilled, expert. Example: She is an adept juggler. Aegis: the protection, support or backing of. Example: Under the aegis of the United Nation various programs are running around the world. Embellish: adorn, ornament, beautify by or as if by ornamentation. Glitzy: pretentiously or tastelessly showy. Example: Las Vegas is famous for its fancy…
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Don’t Stop Believing
On Wednesday, we met again for a fantastic evening. Our lovely Toastmaster of the Evening Manjana wonderfully introduced the speakers under the engrossing motto: “And the winner is … “. On the winner list we had: The hottest newcomer in theater for his poetry monologue Prateek The best lead actor in his stunning action musical…
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Luck vs. Preparation
On Wednesday, the 14th of January, we had two Icebreaker speeches, Project 2 from the CC manual, and an advanced speech. Patrycja delivered her first speech at Toastmasters entitled “Should I leave the hat on?”. In a very creative way she described different areas of her life while wearing a hat of a different color.…
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Be Grateful
At our first meeting of 2015, our well prepared Toastmaster of the Evening Sunder smoothly introduced three speakers. Ting-Yi delivered her Ice-breaker entitled Riddles of East Asians. She told us about the reason behind the Asian stereotype: the Tiger Mother. By Asian she meant only North Asians: people from Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong…
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Happy Anniversary and Happy Jingle Bells!
On Wednesday the 10th of December 2014, we celebrated the 15 year Mercury Anniversary together with the Christmas party. It was the best party I have been to; there were only jolly faces around me. Our club is fantastic beyond belief! Our Toastmaster of the Evening was Wendy and she ensured an exciting meeting, all…
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Mercury’s 15th Anniversary
Mercury is 15 years old already! 15 years of great learning, amazing experiences, and personal growth in a supportive atmosphere. We will be celebrating this lovely occasion together with the holiday season, on Wednesday 10th December (starting at 19:30 in Carmerstrasse 10, 10623 Berlin), and we would like you to be part of it! :)…
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Art@Mercury
Last Wednesday, Mercury hosted a special event with ART as the theme. The room was full of creativity, energy and happiness. Peter Henrich, our Division Governor, said that this was the best meeting he had ever been at in the entire division! We are incredibly lucky to have such talent within our club. Moreover, Peter…