The WOW Toastmasters Club is a club with a difference, having meetings with a difference, at venues with a difference!
WOW Toastmasters Club meets on the 3rd Sunday of each month (but may vary) at a different venue in the Wairarapa, indoors in the winter and outdoors in the summer. Every second meeting is held at Cobblestones Museum, Greytown.
A view of the meeting space at Cobblestones Museum, Greytown.
WOW Toastmasters Club is a community club with members from all over the Wellington and Wairarapa regions. Some of our previous meeting venues have included a winery, a brewery, a hotel, restaurants, cafes, gardens and museums, and a dairy farm.
Meeting Venues List
- 19 February - Hauiti Gardens, 131 Dublin St, Martinborough. Theme: 1920, BYO Picnic lunch.
- 18 March - Cobblestones, 169 Main St, Greytown. Theme: You're a Star. Lunch, Main St Deli.
- 15 April - Reap House, 340 Queen St, Masterton. Theme: Judge & Jury. Lunch, Masterbowl.
- 20 May - Cobblestones, 169 Main St, Greytown. Theme: AGM. Lunch, Cuckoo.
- 17 June - Village Cafe, 6 Kitchener St, Martinborough. Theme: Viva le France. Lunch, same venue.
Next meeting
Sunday 19 February 2012, at 11 am, Hauiti Gardens, 131 Dublin St, Martinborough. Theme: 1920s, BYO Picnic lunch. All welcome! Look out for the Toastmasters flag outside the venue.
For more information email wow@toastmasters.org.nz or phone Anna on (06) 370 8307 evenings.
2012 Meeting Calendar and Venues List. Some venues and dates subject to change, so please ring to check.
2012 Meeting Diary
Sunday 15 January 2012
WOW's first meeting of 2012 was held in the lovely grounds of Cobblestones Museum in Greytown, with the theme of "school" under the chairmanship of Trish Gray. The word of the day was "education" from Jenifer Brannigan, our grammarian, who also gave the chair a detention for spelling the theme as "scholl days".
Trish also conducted table topics, using a "mood calendar" that she'd found on a recent trip away. Everyone was given a mood to interpret such as astonished, grumpy, chipper, rushed and fabulous, however, the winner of the table topics trophy for the day was Val Richardson, with a wonderful interpretation of "listless", telling a great story and using the word of the day.
Our first speaker was Anne Guyan, a new member doing her second assignment and this was called "An Unsung Hero" and related to the Trade Aid organisation with which she is involved. Facts we didn't realise are that Trade Aid is a 100% New Zealand company that buys items at a fair price, then gives it's profits back to the communities it trades with by helping to build wells, schools and maternity clinics. As consumers we can all vote with our wallets and Anne's challenge to us is to change our attitudes and "be the mosquito in the bedroom". This will allow emerging countries to have living wages for their people.
As we'd had a late cancellation by a speaker, Trish introduced a small play she'd written called "New Zealand Calling", about a couple trying to get in touch with their daughter in England (before the advent of internet, skype, etc.) as they had "heard a rumour". Rita Stirling Vincent took the role of Dave and Jean was played by Anna Simms.
The second speaker was Justin Vincent with "My School Hero" where Justin outlined for us in a very amusing manner why Wile E. Coyote was his hero. Mr Coyote had a business card, (Wile E. Coyote, Genius, have brain, will travel), he had a goal (to kill Roadrunner), he had plans, he used technology (usually from the Acme Company) and he was not afraid to innovate, such as lashing himself to a rocket to catch the pesky bird. All of these lessons have stood Justin in good stead for later in life.
The meeting closed just before 1pm when everyone adjourned to Salute for a wonderful lunch.