What is about adults playing dress-up that brings out the child in us? Oct.27, we packed the room with spooktackular fun and funny people who were dead serious about their Toastmaster roles. I call that serious fun. For my inner child who has to be serious way too much of the time, this is was the perfect meeting.
Super Toastmaster Jennifer in her blue superwoman cape and shirt led us through a well organized, very full meeting.
Special guest Division Governor Scarecrow/ Sly Houde is on a mission to visit all 21 clubs that make up Division G. To the best of my knowledge it is the first time a division governor has visited our club other than for contests and training. It is no small task for Sly to meet all the clubs from north of Victoria to Campbell River and here.
Our other special guests were Toastmaster Paula Howley and her daughter Meaghan from Sechelt. Paula practiced her district competition speech on us, and Meaghan (about 5 or 6?) volunteered for table topics. She has to be the youngest ever.
The rest of the line up: The Queen Bee herself Lesley who combined humour and serious facts about the dwindling bee population, “The Bees Knees.” She overcame her fear and did it anyway, a fine example for all.
Linda wove the poignant story of Clara and Robert Schumann into “The Music in My Head.” We learned about true love and great musicians.
Isabelle alias an 82-year-old grandmother was selling a contraption to lose weight called “Melt in a Moment” had us rolling with laughter. She took a serious project from persuasive speaking manual and turned it into great fun but we got the point.
A good time was had by all and if I had my way we would play dress-up more often than I could come to the meeting in my slippers. I sure picked a perfectly spookalicious meeting to come home to. Barb
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