Deerwood Toastmaster Sweeped Area 60 Contest!

Deerwood Toastmasters did very well at the Area 60 contest last night against other fine clubs such as the Beaches Area TM, Osprey TM, and Ponte Vedra Beach TM.  Our member, Wayne Blackburn, won 1st place for the International Speech category, and I was amazed I won 1st place for the Table Topics category.  The International Speech is more of a prepared speech, and it is between 5-7 minutes long.  Table Topics is an impromptu speech that is between 1-2 minutes long.  This is my kind of speech--just off the cuff :)

We move on to the Division contest level on Friday, April 17th, at UNF. Wish us good luck! :)

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Wayne and I


Deerwood TM members came to support us!

2nd Place Is Not So Bad

As many of you know already, I am in Toastmasters and as much as I hate public speaking, I really love this club!! We had our Evaluation Speech contest today, and I was one of the four contestants to evaluate Wayne's speech. I gave my best shot, although, I rushed my conclusion part because I was running out of time. I thought I was a goner then, but apparently, my speech was good enough to win 2nd place :) Our Membership of Education officer, Sandra, won first place, and she did a phenomenal job with her speech! We both get to compete at the area level, which will be on Oct. 3rd. I also got to see a friend of ours, Rob, win the Humorous Speech contest in his area level two weekends ago. Yay for Toastmasters! From the area level, the winner will move forward to the Division contest which will be on the weekend that I will be in NYC for an engagement session. Hey--now the pressure is off!