My First Toastmaster Contest – Glad I did it!

Our usual casual Toastmasters group was very formal, as we had both the speech and evaluation contests today.

What’s the deal? This is the first round leading to the state, national and ultimately global contests. Each week, speeches and verbal evaluations are given during our meetings. Several people in our group have won at the Portland-level. Everyone was nervous, including myself, as Jerry read aloud the formal rules of the contest, rather than in our usual casual camaraderie. I confess, I was not the winner of the three people in the evaluation contest. Though we cheerfully sent along our winners to the next contest level.