{"id":881,"date":"2018-07-20T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:23:39","slug":"dinner-time-meeting-11th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.bcntoastmasters.com\/en\/dinner-time-meeting-11th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner time. Meeting 11th July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Dinner time<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Wednesday 11th of July 2018 \u2013 another session of TM has started under Barcelona\u2019s scorching heat and we had cosily found shelter in the cool and fresh headquarters.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Isabel Montero, our president, opened the ball with a question addressed to the audience: What does it take to be a good leader\/communicator? According to her, it\u2019s all about being a good listener.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">After letting us reflecting on the matter, the ToastMatser of the day, Paul Conde, made a sensational entrance justifying his 5 minutes late with a \u201cshit happens\u201d, proving that eloquence doesn\u2019t necessarily match with punctuality.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The theme of the night was \u201cif you could have dinner with anyone on earth, who would it be?\u201d, and our TM used the dinner metaphor to present the structure of a TM session: appetizers, main course and dessert.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">As appetizers, we got introduce to the technical team, composed of Alvaro Fernandez Martinez as Ah-counter, Marc Majoral as Grammarian and Angela Delgado Castillo Gill as Timekeeper.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">We then moved on to the main course: the prepared speeches!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The first one was a delightful and touching&nbsp;icereaker&nbsp;from Sonia Vilella, who delivered her first speech in&nbsp;a perfect&nbsp;English. She shared with us a few personal details with emotion and humour.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The second course consisted&nbsp;in&nbsp;Maria Luisa Gomes\u2019s \u201cConversing with Ease\u201d speech from the Interpersonal Communication Manual. With this speech, her goal was to initiate a conversation with a stranger, and&nbsp;demonstrating&nbsp;us how a good conversation shall be structured. To this end, she presented us the 4 different levels of conversation: small talk -&gt; facts disclosure -&gt;&nbsp;view point&nbsp;and opinions -&gt; personal feelings, and illustrating these 4 stages in an amusing roleplay with Manolo, former member but dear to the heart of the club, freshly returned from Madrid.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The third main course was brought to us by Maryana Tasheva with a \u201cPersuade and Inspire\u201d speech from the \u201cspeeches by management\u201d manual. She inspired us to \u201cget in the game\u201d.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">After getting served the \u201cside dishes\u201d, consisting in the evaluations of the three prepared speeches, respectively by Sebastian Ortega, Isabel Montero and Zuzanna Smakalova, we moved finally to the long-awaited dessert, the table topics.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Our table topic master of the night was Sean Palit who also chose to stick to the dinner theme.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The idea for the speakers was to imagine having dinner with a random celebrity and trying to convince them to change their job. The first speaker was Alexa, who had to convince Penelope Cruz to drop her actress career to become a football player. The second one was Maria Blancas who had to persuade Dali to become a chef. Lastly, Olga Escribano had to convince Fernando Alonso to become a surgeon. In a nutshell, a delightful and highly digestive dessert.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The session was finally closed by Sandra Almeida as a general evaluator, who delivered a deep and detailed evaluation and gave to each and every one of us some very useful&nbsp;advices.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">After such a complete and delicious dinner, we all headed home (or to the bar, for some us) well fed and happy.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">See you next week!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner time Wednesday 11th of July 2018 \u2013 another session of TM has started under Barcelona\u2019s scorching heat and we had cosily found shelter in the cool and fresh headquarters. 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