District 26 contest season is officially underway, with 6 winners already selected (more later on names). Area S3, S4 and S5 worked together to put on a combined contest, officially being the first set of contests for the season, leading to the District contests in November.
Congratulations and thanks to all the participants, functionaries and audience members!
A great time was had at the combined S3-4-5 contest at the East Library Thursday Evening 9/5. There were lots of evaluators and even more Tall Tales Speeches.
There was a large range of talent and ideas presented at the meeting. Bonnie Ann got a whole lot of useful and interesting feedback on her test speech, talking about being a child in dry, dusty Texas, and how her startled reaction barely saved her friend from a rattle snake, and how the same way of facing things brought her to Toastmasters, and the great value we all get from Toastmasters!
The evaluators offered her advice from making sure her message is making it to the back of the room, to ways to look at her speech as the potential for 2 great speeches.
A remarkable amount of creativity was shown during Tall Tales! I heard about supermom; military maneuvers for fudge; being overrun by rats; how the ruling power shifted in Abu Dabi; Sasquatch bull-riding bears; how fishing lead to a sighting of Noah's Ark; a deal with the devil delivered in perfect Dr. Suess-ian form; and a number more!
No battle plan manages to survive the battle, however all the people working the contest handled the situations as they came up and make the contest a full-on success.
Trying to fit 3 areas with 2 contests each into the window of time we had was pretty challenging. I would have been glad to speak more, but just as happy to keep to the core contest for most of it. We did have a little time to hear from our Lt Gov Marketing, Deborah Frauenfelder, who spoke about the upcoming district conference in November - not too far away in DTC - and how the conference is looking for volunteers and education presenters!
In the end, we rushed through awarding the winners, and took a few quick pictures. We heard the announcements on the PA about the library closing, and quickly wrapped up and cleaned up. We were ushered out of the building. Luckily, we were only a few minutes over getting out, and the staff was graceful in allowing us to get out.
The winners will continue on to the Division Contest, Saturday October 5th, at 1pm, downtown Colorado Springs Library.
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