Tag Archives: 2015

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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. … Continue reading

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