A Welcome To Our Student Guests

We are always excited when we have guests visit our Cottonwood Toastmaster's Club! This past Monday we had the pleasure of enjoying four new guests, what fun! Two of our guests were visitors from a local college business class assigned to speak at our club, and who came even with their nervousness and shakes! Hooray to this teacher who gave the assignment for the students to participate in a Toastmaster Club Table Topics.

For those of you readers who are not familiar with Toastmasters, each week at our meetings we have a fun segment where the Table Topics Master calls on an unsuspecting participant to give a 90 second impromptu speech. The topic in our club is taken from the theme of the day. Our theme for this meeting was "Traffic". I happened to be the Table Topics Master deciding to have some fun with this topic!

 One of my questions was "If you were a stop light in a busy city, what would your thoughts be at rush hour?" To assist our guests, especially our very nervous student guests, I asked one of our best speakers, long time member, and DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) to go first. She set a great example for the following two speakers.

Question number two was:

"Some towns are so small that the only traffic guide for the entire town is a four way stop sign at the only intersection in town. One day you experience four cars at the same time at your intersection, quite an unusual event. As a four way stop sign, what are you thoughts while experiencing this unusual moment?"

And question number three was:

"On occasion there are reasons for the freeway to shut down. Have you ever been stuck on the freeway in a traffic jam? What did you do and how did you handle your delay?"

I loved question number three because as I was contemplating what questions to ask our participants about "Traffic", I remembered the day my husband, daughter and I were stuck in very slow traffic at crawling speed, coming down Oak Creek Canyon. After a few minutes of this slow speed crawl, my husband jumped out of the car and said "I'll see you at the bottom of the hill! I'm going visiting." and off he jogged, stopping along the way to visit and have a laugh with whom ever would lend him an ear! He is so fun to be married to. I guess in a way, I was  hoping our speaker would relate a similar story, but since he was just a young college boy, he was modest in his answer. I am proud to say that he won the Table Topics Best Speaker award for the day!

I say to you all "Welcome to our Cottonwood Arizona Toastmasters Club where we have a lot of fun! Bring yourself and a guest anytime. You are more than welcome!"

To public speaking and the fun of overcoming your fears, happy day to you and CONGRATULATIONS for getting out of your comfort zone!

Cottonwood Toastmasters meets every Monday 12:00 to 1:15 at the Cottonwood Village, 201 E Mingus Ave. Guests are welcome. For more information call Laina Lloyd at 928-300-8638 or Dave Ellison at 634-6540