Rainbow Toastmasters Toronto

✨ Meeting Recap – June 1 ✨

We had 18 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting — an energetic evening full of humour, indulgence, and tons of learned moments!

Tristan did a fantastic job serving as Toastmaster for the first time and leading the meeting with the fun and engaging theme: “Guilty Pleasures” 🫦

We welcomed guests Benny, Dave, Bashiyr, and Lilie — thank you for joining us, we hope you had fun!

Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Brian — Word of the Day: indulge
⏱️ Timer: Mohammad
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Averra, 23 filler words
🔍 General Evaluator: John, who reminded us to fill the podium, speak to the back row, and members to get involved in Toastmasters because it’s your “money honey!” 💰

Speeches:
🎤 Jamie delivered “How the Guy Named Jamie from Salisbury, New Brunswick Became Mr. Price in Toronto,” and did such a great job that not even BonHomme could convince us otherwise ⛄❄️, evaluated by Shane.
🎤 Akeylah shared “Crowdsourcing Mentoring,” with her novel take on being a protege evaluated by Derek.

Table Topics:
Hosted by Wei, leading to a wide variety of entertaining and creative responses from participants.

🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Dave for his unforgettable “raw meat” answer 🥩

Grammarian Award was earned by Akeylah for her excellent comedic timing — congratulations! 🎉

📅 Next Meeting: Monday, June 8 — we hope to see you there!

Grammarian and Table Topics winners April 27th along with three new Rainbow Toastmasters members inducted.

We had 17 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting—a great mix of energy and participation throughout the evening! Seven guests attended
John was our Toastmaster with the theme First United Church of Trump (imagine the acronym)
We welcomed guests Naida, Wei, Danuta (Area Director) Danial and Tristan—thank you for joining us! You all did a fantastic job.
Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Victor— Word of the Day: Unfit (ness)
⏱️ Timer: Jamie - kept us punctual
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Pedro we had a count of only 11 filler words heard
🔍 General Evaluator: Brian
Speech:
🎤 Danuta delivered a presentation showing us the ins and outs of the Pathways on Base Camp at Toastmasters Int'l
Averra delivered her Toastmasters Ice-Breaker speec talking about bullying and her Journey Through Self-Acceptance
Table Topics:
Hosted by Daniel, who brought the theme to life with a fun touch of thought provoking questions.
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to Tristan with his excellent Trump impersonation and the Grammarian Award was earned by Averra for her use of language in her Ice-Breaker speech well done both of you!
See you next week where Brian will be the Toastmaster and we will have two speeches made by member Prakhyaat and our Club Secretary Shane

We had 18 attendees at our Toastmasters meeting—a great mix of energy and participation throughout the evening!
Prak did a superb job as Toastmaster, leading the meeting with the theme: “Running on Vibes & Delusion.”
We welcomed guests Naida, Bashiyr, Wei, Lily, and Angela—thank you for joining us! You all did a fantastic job.
Role Highlights:
🔤 Grammarian: Brian— Word of the Day: Sanity
⏱️ Timer: Keith (First time - job well done!)
🗣️ Ah-Counter: Jim we had a count of 84 filler words heard
🔍 General Evaluator: Shane
Speech:
🎤 Jamie delivered “Live Forever Really?" from the Persuasive Influence pathway
John delivered a Toastmasters better club series presentation on "Committments"
Table Topics:
Hosted by Akeylah, who brought the theme to life with a fun touch of thought provoking questions.
🏆 Awards:
The Table Topics Award went to a tie between two guests - congrats Wei and Angela, and the Grammarian Award was earned by Jamie for his phrases used in his speech tonight—well done!

See you next week where John will be the Toastmaster and we will have two speeches made by member Averra and our Area Director Danuta

Guest Wei has expressed an interest in joining as a member. 🎉