One would think that holding a TM meeting (7th December 2010) in the middle of the December “puente” would be a fiasco in terms of attendance. However, our last Tuesday meeting was fully packed, not only with club members but also with guests (we had around 10)…aren’t we an attractive alternative to the Xmas shopping madness?
And Christmas was indeed an important part of the evening. Carol Ann, opened the meeting with Holy Cole’s “Christmas Blues”, followed by tips on how to avoid this seasonal depressive mood, the blues. She chose “blue” as the word of the day and it was widely used by speakers as Günter, Ah-counter, recorded .
Angela went on stage as table topic master and challenged everyone with Christmas related objects : a Catalan Christmas carols book, a dried pumpkin painted as a Santa Claus, a scary Santa Claus mask and a giant sleigh bell. We all had a good laugh and got ready for what to say when we don’t get the right gift!
Speakers brought an assorted array of topics to the evening. Christian appealed to our sense of duty by underlining the importance of voting at the European elections. Philip gave us a lesson in rhetoric by transforming what initially seemed a humorous speech about “bolds” on a moving one on the gay movement. Dima showed us his humorous side by sharing his “smash and grab” car crime experience in the Italian town of Ostia and Henrik made his second speech about the company he recently created with his brother and a friend.
Jeff, Tulia, Florian and Arthur presented their evaluations giving useful recommendationsto for everyone (not only speakers!): paying attention to the structure, the use of humour, introducing quotes and the risk of PowerPoint as “message hinder” . Rose rounded up the evaluation part with a Good/Bad/Evil analysis. An evil remark for next week: time, time, time, we need to be more efficient!
Time to say good bye, with Tulia’s closing words inspired by speakers speeches “Please vote because your vote counts no matter if you are hairy or bold, even when being in holidays in la Ostia because above all you can take the Xmas blues away if everything you do is the work of love ”. See you on the 21st!
Irene http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com
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