April 19th 2007

Check out this great article published in La Vanguardia Magazine on April 15. It is about our member Kika! Congratulations to her and her exciting venture. This is great PR...

April 18th 2007

Yesterday we settled in our new venue for the first time. Thanks again to Veronika and Angela for making this happen. All present members showed their approval. The room is definitely a great solution for the time being.

President Belinda kicked off the meeting with a series of rhetorical laurels she awarded to all members who had made the Division Conference three days earlier a great success; several cheeks of front-runner Edith turned red... TM of the Day Liam smoothly carried us through the program. In one of his multiple comical remarks he pointed out that Frank's speech titled "Here" had to be discarded from the agenda because, actually, Frank was not here... Table Topics master Maylen made three of us comment on some socially critical images, one of them showing a child soldier. While doing so she fought hard with our disliked word fillers scrutinized by Maria.

The speeches. In the run-up icebreaking Carol Ann was nervously sitting next to Florian who didn't really help her with his overblown comments. But then she did a great job. No fillers, extraordinary content. We really got to know her personality well. Congratulations. Veronika made her body speak explaining to the audience why a "Kangaroo" ended up in Barcelona, and Rose practiced her vocal variety skills painting us a vivid picture of her last trip to Malaysia. Chris not only did a great job keeping the time records for the speeches, but also for the three following evaluations by Jeff, Florian and Belinda.

After some constructive criticism by our General Evaluator Peter and closing remarks by Belinda the meeting continued in a close-by tapas bar.

Hope to see you all back next time when we continue to raise the bar on May 2nd.

April 14th 2007

On Saturday April 14th we, in collaboration with Barcelona Toastmasters, hosted an excellent Division Conference here in Barcelona. Special thanks to Edith and her team featuring our ever active Melinda. Superb guest presentations on executive coaching and marketing framed the evaluation and speech contests. Our guests coming from Marbella, Mallorca, Madrid and other Spanish cities, later enjoyed a common dinner at the restaurant Flamant. Our club was represented by our president Belinda an a handful of other Prestigious Speakers. We wish all the best to the contest winners Miguel (Evaluation, Madrid) and Debbie (Speech, Mallorca) who will represent Division H (Spain/Portugal) in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the District Conference at the end of May.

April 4th 2007

Yesterday we celebrated our last TM meeting at the Barcelona Business Center. Once again, we would like to send some special thanks to our fabulous host Maylen. The journey continues at the Babylon language school in Calle Bruc 65. Steven Muller will be our host from now on. Thank you, Angela, for organizing our new venue. - In yesterday's meeting María Lluch gave her Ice-breaker; a promising talent we all witnessed there...

Our big event is approaching rapidly: the Division H (Spain/Portugal) Spring Conference. Together with our co-hosts from Barcelona Toastmasters, we are creating a multi-faceted, exciting program. Visitors are very welcome. This is a great opportunity to get to know Toastmasters.