may possibly have over-scheduled this weekend just a tad. It’s not my fault that all the interesting stuff happens the same weekend! (Though I suppose it is my fault I can never turn anything down – a serious case of FOMO, as I believe the cool kids call it.) This morning started with a race…
oastmasters meeting tonight, and for the first time I was the Toastmaster – the combination of Chairperson and Emcee who runs the meeting, introduces the speakers, and generally keeps everything on track. I was ever so slightly nervous, with so many different things to remember to do and say, but it went really well (well,…
fter my triumphant post of yesterday, I very nearly forgot to write a blog post today! I blame the fact that I have actually written a blog post today, it just wasn’t for this blog. My Toastmasters club has a website where a recap of each week’s meeting gets posted. Up until recently, there’s been…
ast night my Toastmasters group had a quiz night. My team maintained a respectable second place up until the second last round. When the quiz leader announced that the theme of the round was flags, there was a loud exclamation of glee from the teenage member of our team, the child of one of the…
esterday I took the day off so Mum and I could do some serious shopping. Except neither of us is very good at serious shopping, so it quickly devolved into a bit of vague wandering around the shops deciding we didn’t actually want to buy anything anyway, interspersed with many many breaks for tea and…
EISMIC has been shortlisted for the NZ Open Source Awards, so we’ve been invited to the awards dinner in Wellington. None of the bosses are available to go, so today they asked if I’d like to go in their place, and take one of the team with me. So I get to go to a fancy…
oastmasters tonight, and my fifth prepared speech, which means I’m half way through the first qualification, “The Competent Communicator”. Each speech is supposed to focus on a particular skill, and tonight’s was on using body language. I was instructed to pick a topic that would let me use lots of body language while talking, so…
ad dinner last night at a Vietnamese restaurant in Fendalton with a few of the women from Toastmasters. Our original plan had been to grab a quick dinner then go to a movie, but the conversation (and the meal – seriously good food) turned out to be much too enjoyable to rush, so we cancelled…
ne of my favourite parts of a Toastmasters meeting is the Table Topics section. That’s when speakers are given a prompt (sometimes it’s a topic, sometimes a question, or sometimes something completely different) around which they have to create an impromptu 2-minute speech. It’s incredibly challenging, but can be lots of fun, and definitely teaches…
art of the rules of the Butterfly Challenge was that you hve to add a link to a photo or blog post about your entry to a “linky” on TartanKiwi’s original post, so that everyone can see each other’s entries. As a result, I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my Catterfly post, all…