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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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
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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With three speeches and six table topics tonight, Catherdral City Toastmasters was on fire with some brilliant performances complete with the usual seasoning of entertainment and at times laugh-out-loud comedy. Scott treated us to a great review of ‘The season of the Jew’ by Maurice Shadbolt, leaving us all wanting to pick up a copy
Tonight was the 2013 Cathedral City Contest evening, and oh what a night! First up was the Table Topics competition with the topic of the evening, “A memorable moment in my life was …”. We were treated to a variety of replies, from first encounters at the Vatican, to a chilly marriage proposal, university graduation
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