Recap of SF-MET Meeting 10/4

[Amy T.]

Dearest SF-MET Toastmasters!

I humbly present to you the recap of last Wednesday’s glorious meeting:

Marshika and Kayla led our meeting wonderfully as a celebration of the controversial Columbus Holiday with a theme of “Exploration” or 探索。  Marco ignited the meeting with his touching and inspiring icebreaker speech titled “Where Do I Begin?” In his speech, Marco invited us to explore his life thus far and what an adventure it has been.  Timo helped us further explore the future possibilities of technology by talking about 3-D Printing which is truly fascinating and exemplifies that human ingenuity has no boundaries.  And, Ursula took on the great challenge of giving her first Mandarin speech and successfully conquered the multitude of choices we are faced with every day.

The Tabletopics were led by Alberto and Barry and they pushed our imaginations into outer space and threw our minds back to ancient China. Finally, Elliott served as the General Evaluator and we have an opportunity to improve in the following areas:

1. Timing for Tabletopics: As the tabletopics master, we should remember that the point is to allow as many members as possible to give impromptu speeches.  Accordingly, keep your intros short and give clear instructions to the speaker regarding their 3 min time limit.
2. Language Equality: Let’s follow Kayla’s wonderful example of how the Mandarin Toastmaster can stand on equal footing with the English Toastmaster.  In other words, please feel free to give your own comments/introductions in Mandarin as opposed to simply translating.  At the same time, please keep in mind that time is short and your role as the Toastmaster is to facilitate the meeting and make sure everything runs on time. 
3. Encourage Audience Members to Speak: When you have a speaking role, please allow others members in the audience with no speaking roles to speak. Even if the tabletopics master invites you to the stage, kindly let them know that you already have a speaking role.

Events:

We’re having our wonderful outdoor TM meeting tomorrow at SF Goldent Gate park!

Next Week’s Agenda: As you can see, there are still several roles open: please contact Marco if you are able to fill one of these positions next week.

English Toastmaster: Marco
Mandarin Toastmaster: TBD (Robert?)

English Table Topics: Amy Tu
Mandarin Table Topics: Hsiang-Yi (new member!)

English Speaker 1: LaiLin  CC#2
English Speaker 2: Samuel CC#1 IceBreaker
Mandarin Speaker 1: Kathy CC# 7
Mandarin Speaker 2: Barry CC#3(confirm please)

Evaluator for LaiLin: Alberto
Evaluator for Samuel: Ursula
Mandarin Evaluator for Kathy: TBD
Mandarin Evaluator for Barry: Jenny

General Evaluator: Marshika
Timer: TBD
Grammarian: TBD
Ah Counter: Kayla

Reminders and Requests:

1. Please bring your leadership (red) and competent communications (blue) manuals to each meeting and track your progress for both your leadership positions and speeches. 
2. Members: Please feel free to access turbobase.com in order to find the links to the youtube.com videos of your speeches and leadership roles. It's helpful to see yourself in action from the viewer's perspective.  If you cannot access turbobase, please let us know! 
3. Please check out Marshika's wonderful work on our webpage: http://sfmet.wordpress.com/.  She has also requested that you please provide her with common questions you have had yourself or you know come up frequently for visitors or new members.  She will be able to utilize your input in creating a FAQ page for our amazing webpage.  

Thanks so much for all your great work and keep it up! 

Have a great weekend everybody!

Best,

Amy

[Alberto]

Bravo Amy!!!!  :-)

Sent from my iPod

Alberto Rivas

(650) 921.1169

[CA Marco]

Hi Amy, and everyone,

Amy, Great job in the recap of our last meeting.

Thank you!

I think Robert is very kind to be our Mandarin TM next Wednesday.  Thank you!

We are also excited to have our newest member Hsiang-Yi

giving her "First" table topic in Mandarin!

*I am thankful for your support in my first Icebreaker.

You were very kind!

*See you tomorrow.

Sincerely,

Marco

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Sent: Saturday, October 6, 2012 12:05 AM
Subject: [SF-MET:38] Recap of SF-MET Meeting 10/4