It felt great to be back at Greensburg Toastmasters on Wednesday night. The last two meetings I had missed. The first time was because I wanted to visit the Beaver Area club which meets on the same night as Greensburg. I had a great time there. The last meeting I missed was due to an early morning appointment; thus, I had to start work early that night.
We had a zoom platform that worked perfectly on Wednesday night, and we had our backup meeting spot in the jury room. We’ll be there next meeting as well, and I will be speaking that night as I start to wrap up the Presentation Mastery path. Despite the Zoom platform not having any hiccups, we had no one attending online. We did have a guest attending in person, however.
I actually met her at the Spring Conference over the past weekend. She is from the Bakery Square Toastmasters club and is an artist.
Not many were in attendance but we still had a full speaking slate. Speech topics consisted of Spring, personal health, and painting. The last speech was from our guest, titled ‘What are your 15 Minutes?
When I first heard the title for this speech, the phrase ‘15 minutes of fame’ had come to mind. Our guest gave a completely different take on 15 minutes. Once I got the gist of what the speech was about, I thought what my 15 minutes were, asked she called on the audience. Mine may include:
Reading a passage from the chapter in whatever book I’m on.
Writing down ideas for my next blog post.
Thinking of how to spend my day or night off.
My speech was the same one I gave to Laurel Highlands last Tuesday. Mike evaluated me and gave me good feedback. Amanda, our guest from Bakery Square and the artist who showed us her watercolor paintings in her journal, also provided me with her take on my speech.
She delivered her speech very well, sharing her passion for painting, and gave us something to think about.
Table Topics hit on the subject of weather. Mary Ellen, our Vice President Education, came up with some fulfilling questions related to the topic. I included the Laurel Highlands in mine as I took the audience on a trip up the mountain to Somerset County.
We all gave our guest a few points of praise and some suggestions for improvement as she’ll present this speech on a bigger stage.
Our next two meetings are June 3 and 17. Summer TLI will be held on June 20, and it will be held online.
Thursday night went off as expected. I began Season Two of The Pitt. The addition of newer characters should help make the show better as should some of the storylines I’ve heard about. The reels help but I’ve disciplined myself to avoid spoiling this coming season. At least when the third season debuts, I’ll be caught up.
The Dinner Series was postponed a week as Mr. Clougherty had another meeting to tend to. It’s his last days of teaching coming up next week as he will enter retirement. He still plans to coach the swim team next year though. As plans changed, it gave me an opportunity to take an early evening walk around Twin Lakes.
We will meet next week in Latrobe as he has practice out there with the pool getting renovated. I always look forward to our meetings and getting to catch up. Maybe a walk around Twin Lakes, downtown Latrobe, or Legion Keener is in the cards. Maybe I’ll even get a picture with America’s favorite neighbor at some point in my travels on Thursday.
Stylish 🍒 