FCC Vanitha Toastmasters Meeting # 2 - English Report

FCC Vanitha toastmasters club second meeting was held at FCC auditorium on Saturday, March 12th from 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm.

Our Sergeant at Arms TM Safoora Saleem did a great work by facilitating all the needful for the venue arrangement. The hall was beautifully rearranged to give it a professional toastmasters meeting outlook. All the necessary aides were made available, Our salutes to the sincerity and dedication of TM Safoora . Any meeting well begun is half done and would like provide all credits to TM Safoora for the flawless welcome address and for the great startup. Next in agenda was presidential address by TM Aparna Ranish. In line with women's day celebration and the theme of the day "സ്ത്രീ -ധനം” the excom committee decided to honor Souda Abdul Jabbar our senior executive member of FCC Vanitha Vedi . She was honored for her great humanitarian deeds and services .she has been the inspiration and role model to all our fellow toastmasters . All of us offered a standing ovation as an honour to her great services and this followed by presenting her a flower bouquet by our guest TM Pavithra Philip. The president then talked about the aim and theme of 2016 international women's day following which the stage was transferred to the TMOD Sajna Manshur. 

TM Sajna wonderfully picked up on the Theme സ്ത്രീ -ധനം meaning women is a treasure . She acknowledged the value of women in society and gracefully introduced the role players of the day. 

Timer: Harisa Al Habir

 AH counter: SUNILA Jabbar 

Grammarian: Manju 

Listener: Bindu Haridas 

All the role players performed their duties in perfection. The planned installation anyone of the speeches was cancelled and the TMOD effectively made use of that time slot to insert in a game which paved way for all the guests to speak a few words on stage. Great idea and was well executed by TMOD. Kudos TM Sajina Manshur for your instant creativity.

The first session was prepared speech session and there was only one ice braking speech by TM Sheeba Ashokan. TM Sheeba was a natural speaker, she spoke about her beautiful memories of school life In her speech titled "മധുരമുള്ള ഒരു ഓർമ ". The speech shifted us momentarily to good old school days and brought smiles in audience. Well done TM Sheeba Asokan.

The second session was an education module delivered by TM Pavithra Philip, past president of ICC Eve's Club a great toastmaster who is in toastmaster journey for last 8 years. She taught us how to go about taking our first step in toastmasters - delivering the ice breaker speech .It was indeed a great experience to hear from a very senior toastmaster .Her style ,way of delivery , confidence all need to be imbibed. 

The third session was Table topic which is the most interesting part of the meeting was well handled by our newbie. TM Nabeela Masood. She was confident and provided audience with good topics in line with the theme. Her presentation portrayed confidence and proved the audience that a great cook who keeps bagging all cookery awards can excel in speaking as well.
The Toastmasters and guests who enthusiastically participated in this session are TM Fasna , Fareeda , Nasri Thabith and Liji Abdullah. All of them spoke really well in the instant topics provided.TM Fareeda was selected as the best Table topic speaker. 

The last and final session was the general evaluation which was carried out TM Pavithra Philip again. She appreciated the good points and gave tips for improving the future meetings. The evaluator of P1 Speech TM Abida Subair gave a perfect evaluation. Her evaluation was motivating at the same time gave in new learning tips for the speaker for her future speeches. Further the president conducted the business session and concluded the meeting by announcing the next meeting date as 26th March from 6:15 pm -8:30pm. Last but not the least great thanks to the pillars behind the success of our meeting - our Area director TM Yousuf Vannarath and our mentors TM Shaini and TM Rifna. Special thanks to TM Sajina Manshur , TM Pavithra Philip and TM Abida Subair for their time and support .

Thanks

Aparna Ranish