Archive for January, 2009

Monday, January 19th, 2009

“Historic Moments of January 14, 2009″ Meeting Recap – 01/14/09

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Last week, Bert took the lectern as Toastmaster and walked us through historic moments that occurred on January 14.  They include the opening of “Blues Brothers” in 1980, the Simpsons premiere in 1990, and Albert Cantara’s reading of Thomas Friedman’s ”Flat, Hot and [...]

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

“2″ Meeting Recap – 1/07/09

205 pounds of sexy (aka Carlos) toastmastered a high energy first meeting of 2009.  His theme?  The number 2, which he thought of while going a number 2 a while ago.  Coming from the average man, we might go “eeeeewwwwwww,” but from Carlos, we loved it.  The handsome young thing can do no wrong.
Amy table [...]

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Friday, January 2nd, 2009

“New Years” Meeting Recap – 12/31/08

Happy new years, everyone! 
Before we rang in the new year, we gathered for one last meeting of 2008.  Louis was back with us and toastmastered us through his last meeting as president of this club.  It was a good one.
Raj, as grammarian, encouraged us to speak “happy” throughout, which many of us did, though Raj [...]

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Friday, January 2nd, 2009

“Holiday Wishes” Meeting Recap – 12/17/08

Brendan opened this meeting with the holiday sentiment, “May we all get what we deserve.”  Brendan, having you back for a meeting was already far more than we deserve.  It was a wonderful start to the holiday season.
Amy led this meeting in which Susana made her first appearance as Table Topics Master.  Brendan relayed his [...]

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