Happy Sunday all!
-- Our last meeting was well-attended with several guests,11 attendees in total, and with all but one seat taken at the Viva center! Thanks for joining in and making it a great night.
- Mark our TMOE began the evening with an "ice breaker" - "My idea of community," which we all went around and answered with our introduction. "Celebration" was our Word of the Day - which more than 3 people weaved into their commentary. We had two great speeches that both had a refugee theme.
- Julie gave her 7th Competent Communicator speech entitled "What we can do," a nice combination of her personal experience and the current refugee crisis in Syria, framed around how we can do more to help the crisis (as the U.S., as individuals, and what we can do to help those in the U.S. now). Omer her evaluator said it was one of the best structured speeches he's seen, a challenging but well-handled topic, and overall a cause for celebration! -- Great job Julie!
- Kristin gave her FIRST speech (!!) titled "At the Crossroads of Burek and Nasi Goreng" - a personal discussion of her experience meeting refugees during her childhood in the 1970's through her church, to her work experience in Kosovo where she got to know personal refugee stories, onto Indonesia where she found her "central and driving passion" for her work, bringing her to Iraq and unknowns about the future. Congrats on a great first speech Kristin!
- Table Topics by Erin themed around the word of the night, "community" with questions posed around our improving our DC-area community, what we love about DC, and, the show "Community" star Chevy Chase - thanks to our three volunteers!
- Beth was our Timer and Laura was our grammarian (she counted more than 60 filler words by the group) but otherwise our grammar was spot on!)
- Nils was our general evaluator and congratulated our speakers on stimulating and thought provoking speeches, tied to the spirit of the club.
- Finally, we had great feedback from club guess Deepak who said TfC "is the best club he's been to so far, with a great sense of "community" and very supportive.
On that note, let's continue to make our club strong -- have a great week!
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