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The Red Plague – Our Meeting of September 25th, 2012

Table Topics Master Ravi (in red) with TME Jazzmin (also in red)
Table Topics Master Ravi (in red) with TME Jazzmin (also in red)

This Tuesday, our meeting theme was “The Color Red”. It was chosen by Jazzmin, our Toastmaster of the Evening. She was truly “content” (word of the day by Stefan) with the other participants because almost everybody had brought something red with them –犀利士
 mostly worn as clothes.

Every meeting is more fun with guests. This time we had the honor to salute our old friend and former Club President Marty, who – although having “escaped” to the Heidelberg club – joined us for the evening. From the Dutch Serengeti he had brought a sophisticated Joke of the Evening involving a dangaroos (sic!) animal story. (more…)

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No need to live in cloud-cuckoo-land of public speaking, just do it!

Calvin was the Toastmaster of the evening and chaired our meeting on August 28th. As usual the first part of the evening was a warming up for everyone.
MartinS presented the word of the day “cloud-cuckoo-land” which means not to be realistic at all but to think that things which are completely impossible might happen. With a short and striking joke Jeff enlightened us about the three words no one wants to hear when committing adultery: “Honey I’m home!”. A great picture by Calvin described the small but all the more important difference between hell and heaven. Continue reading “No need to live in cloud-cuckoo-land of public speaking, just do it!”

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Our meeting on Aug 14 – a report by Günter

Holiday Mood

When learning a foreign language, don’t you just hate those “false friends” – words that resemble a word of your nat犀利士
ive language but have a quite different meaning in another? Presenting the word of the day, Diego shared with us the knowledge that “eventually” is such a false friend not only for Germans but also for Spanish native speakers. (more…)

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Member Survey – Because your Interests Matter!

Dear fellow Toastmasters,

your Vice President Education Martin had the great idea to conduct a member survey, so he and I – your Vice President Membership JP – have put it into action.

This survey is important to us to find out more about your interest, needs, short-term and long-term goals and how our club can help you! There is also a section where we ask for your opinion about our club, suggestions and feedback. It would be really helpful if you fill this out. With the knowledge of where you want to go, we can help you get into that direction.

Or loosely quoting Alice in Wonderland: “Well, if you don’t know where you want to go, it does not really matter which way you take!”

We want you to take the right way and to support you we want to know where you want to go.

So please fill out the member survey. You will find it on Easy-Speak. Click here for detailed instructions on how to fill out your survey!