Dear fellow toastmasters and friends,
Welcome to a new season of Toastcrackers! As we promised we start on August 18th. But we start with non-standard meeting – English Tour and communication with native speakers.

You may have heard already that recently a new temple has been opened in Kyiv! Several thousands people have already visited the Open House and have gone through it with the tour. Why don’t we start our season with this enchanting place! It is a unique opportunity for all of us since it will be closed for public after August 21. Besides it is absolutely FREE!

So, for those who would like to join us:
we meet at 18:15 on the platform in the metro station Akademmistechko (last station of the red line) near the END of the train. If you are late – give us a call at 050-313-25-62 and we will meet you. Or you can take a special tour bus (free of charge) that is leaving every 30 minutes from the bus stop outside the metro. Just ask if it goes to the temple. Before the tour we will have a chance to watch 10-min video in English, then – 30 min tour in English and after the tour we will have refreshments and communication with native speakers.

DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE!
It would be good if you confirm your participation by SMS to 050-313-25-62 or by email to zogulko@gmail.com
See you tomorrow:)

Dear Friends:

We are happy to invite you to an energizing and sensational Toastmasters event:

WHAT? Exciting, unforgettable adventures combined with English, running, jumping, thinking and many other interesting activities you will have a chance to experience by participating in the Toastmasters Quest 2010. Quest is a world-known open-air gaming which gives an opportunity for several teams not only to compete for a prize, but also spend their time with lots of FUN wondering around the town and solving truly challenging tasks.

WHO? Fellow Toastmasters and most welcomed guests

WHEN? June 5, 2010 at 1:30 PM

WHERE? Starting point is at the monument at metro station Anlanesra*
Look for familiar faces and English-speaking crowd!

* that was the first task for the quest :)

HOW? Quest + Picnic

CLOTHES: comfortable! Avoid taking unnecessary things. Don’t forget your cameras!

FEE: 30 UAH (covers participation in the Quest and Picnic), 20 UAH (Picnic only)

Our Sponsor: Coca-Cola Ukraine

Contact people:

Oxana Nikiforova   097 385-06-84, trilogia@ukr.net

Yulia Dmytryshyn  096 233 46 95, 3830842

See you there! :)

Yesterday, on  February 24 , the  Internal Evaluation Contest was held!!

It was held for the first time in our Toastmasters club. The main idea of the contest is to compare, to open and to show the most important points of evaluator’s role, because evaluators are responsible not only for their role but also for the speaker whom they evaluate.

The main evaluator’s duties are:

- to carefully analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the speaker’s presentation.

-to offer specific recommendations for improvement. Recommendations should be practical, helpful and positive, and they should enable the speaker to improve his or her next presentation.

-to be sensitive to the feelings and needs of the speaker,
yet inspire and encourage the speaker in his/her future speaking efforts.

The winners of the First Internal Evaluation Contest are:

1st place – Zoya Gulko
2nd place – Evgeniy Shulga
3rd place – Evgeniy Zheribor

Congratulations to our winners and participants!!
They show us professionals skills in evaluation and public speaking!!

Gratitude to our guest judges: Svetlana Stavskaya,  Olga Pystynzeva and Victor Fursov.
Thanks to Oksana Nikiforova. She was the test speaker at the contest.
Special thanks to Timur Berezhnoy (the main organizator of the contest and the main judge) and to Julia Dmytriyshin (the chairperson of the contest) who made this event bright, interesting and usefull.

Here  you can find some photos from the meeting:
http://www.toastcrackers.kiev.ua/internal-evaluation-contest-2/

Yesterday on Wednesday, January 27th finished the 1st Contest of Active Participation among members of our club. For each role performed at a meeting a member gets a certain quatity of points and the winner, the person, who attended the most meetings and got the most points was announced yesterday – it was Svetlana Chernichko, CC, our Sergeant at arms!

SvetaSveta attended all the 3 meetings, that we had in January, including Debates, was a speaker, a debates team member and a TT evaluator, and got a valuable prize – a ticket to the Toastmasters Winter Carnival!

Congratulations, Sveta!

The same contest of Active participation will be conducted at our club every month and each of you, dear club members, can be the next winner. Good luck!


On Wednesday, December 9th our main annual event – Toastcrackers internal speech contest was held.

The Green drawing room of the House of scientists was full – about 50 people were present, including distinguished Judges from other clubs led by Area Governor Yulia Dmitrishin. 6 members of our club were competing for the 3 places and only two tickets to All-Ukrainian speech contest 2010 (for the 1st and 2nd place).

As a result the winners are:

1st place – Timur Berezhnoy, ACS, our VP Education
2nd place – Oxana Nikiforova, CC, President of our club
3rd place – Ann Solodovnikova.
the Prize of Sympathy of Audience – Elena Solokhina, a new member of our club, for whom this speech contest presentation was the first(!) full-fledged speech in a Toastmasters club!

The Chief Judge Yulia Dmitrishin made special mention of the high level of performance of our members, who participated in the contest this evening. Dear winners! We are expecting “medals” at the next All-Ukrainian Speech contest! Good luck!

ToastCrackers Club

We meet every Wednesday at 19:00 at the Kiev House of Scientists (Vladimirskaya str., 45a, m.st.Golden Gate) in the Green drawing-room (1st floor).

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