Tag: 2015

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…