Dear fellow Toastmaster,
First part of February was about Leadership in the life of a Hungarian Toastmaster. Now time has come to pay our attention to traditional speech competitions. Each year thousands of Toastmasters compete in the Humorous, Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics and International speech contests. Competition begins with club contests and winners continue competing through the area, division and district levels.
Budapest Toastmasters’ International Speech Contest will take place on 17th March at CEU Business School (1023 Budapest, Frankel Leó út 34) at 18:30 pm. The Contest is a great opportunity for you to experience the spirit of a competition as a contestant or take one of the roles of the event, as Judge, Vote Counter, Timer. Should you have any question regarding the nomination or the details of the Contest, please contact our Contest Chair, David Tasnadi (d.tasnadi@gmail.com)
Budapest ExxonMobil Associates’ Toastmasters Club (B.E.A.T.) will organize its International Speech Contest on 26th February and a Speech Evaluation Contest on 6th March. They are also looking for volunteers for the roles of Judge, Vote Counter, Timer and would be happy if they could see you on one of the contests. If you are interested to take part as one of the above mentioned role takers, please contact Szabina Nagy (szabina.nagy@exxonmobil.com). International Speech Contest Date: 26th February 2014 Time: 11:30 am – 13:00 pm Place: Center Point – ExxonMobil (CP2B-418-420) 1139 Budapest 81-85 Vaci Street Speech Evaluation Contest Date: 6th March Time: 11:30 am – 13:00 pm Place: Center Point – ExxonMobil (CP2B-418-420) 1139 Budapest 81-85 Vaci Street.
Beside these exciting programs, our scheduled Monday and Tuesday meetings are going smoothly.
Last Monday, we have heard useful tips from David Tasnadi regarding how to prepare our suitcase and Nikoletta Lakatos convinced us, that it is worth stepping out of our comfort zone, while she shared some personal experience in this field. The Best Speaker Award went to Beatrix Pólya for her excellent Icebreaker speech about wearing high hills or not, in case you stand at the very end of the height line in the high school. Viktor Morandini (CC) guided the audience to the field of movies in the frame of Table Topic session.
Tuesday Skylark meeting was the event for Akos Barath to complete his Competent Communication Manual. He inspired the audience with his 10th speech “Innovation”. Attila Szigeti showed the way of vocal variety with his speech „Uups, I did it again” talking about a life-changing decision he made a year ago.
Do not forget, that tomorrow a new Toastmaster week will be started with lots of fun and interesting people, so it’s time to check Easyspeak (tmclub.eu) and register for the upcoming meetings and take roles for that!
Have a wonderful week!
Judit and your Budapest ExCo team