Hullo Fellow Toastmasters
8 keen Toasties turned out in bucketing rain for a night of scintillating debate. Where would we be without Dave who so capably organised and guided us through the evening. Debating is a fairly new experience for some of us so it was really educational.
After drawing lots Bev, a debater of long experience, adjudicated with Dave as Chairman and the subject was "That schooldays are the best days of our lives."
Kevin, as leader of the Affirmative team, defined the subject well, (don't know what school he went to but evidentally they were extremely well fed there), Erika (2nd affirmative) had to RUN home through those Swiss hills during her schooldays, during which she met lifelong friends, while Patricia (3rd affirmative) was privately educated by some wonderful nuns. It all sounded pretty idyllic.
A different picture was painted by the Negative team led by Tim, who fired many salvos at the opposition, stating that schooldays were miserable days, endorsed by 2nd negative Norma, who had her fingers squashed in her crayon tin by Terrible Terry on her first day, then Corran, (3rd negative) who was bullied and brainwashed.
The speakers were expertly evaluated in the usual Toastmaster style by Dave and Bev and this proved really useful. We were all winners on the night!
December 4th looks to be another interesting evening with good speakers so hopefully we'll have a good turnout.
Cheers, Norma
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