Tasha’s speech goes to print
Cathedral City Toastmaster, Tasha Black, last night delivered a blinding speech from the Competent Communicator manual that has today gone to print in the Christchurch Press.
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Post-quake waves of fudge
It was a night of thoughtful and at times very moving speeches. Some exceptional use of language – we clearly are a club of word-smiths. Tasha blew us away with her beautifully-crafted speech on post-quake Christchurch, capturing the mood, rebirth and even the language with this new city. Then Scott took us on the search
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A mother knows best, or does she?
What a great night it was last night with our first ever ‘official’ (judged and scored) Club Debate! My what a battle. With a moot like ‘Mother knows best for her child’ it was bound to get messy, and the teams did not disappoint. With Jan leading those in favour of the moot, she gave
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July 23 Recap
With three major speeches in one sitting, tonight was as diverse and thought-provoking as an evening could be. We traversed from Rohit’s fantastic analysis of the cons of TV advertising, to Tim’s technical session on mathematical kiwiana then to Tasha’s shocking and oh-so-captivating account of USA guns laws. Table-topics was hilarious as Rebecca lead us
Impersonating Italian Churchill
Tonight was an all-round high quality evening. High quality speeches, high quality language and even some high quality impersonations. And the impersonations kicked off with a brilliant rendition of Winston Churchill’s famous WWII speech, complete with accent and Churchill-gestures. Hot on his heels was Jonathan with ‘Today in history’ which began at 2AD and wrapped
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