“HONEY BEE” Yellow and black dresscode
Meeting Report by Gretel Sequeira – Honey Bees Thursday 16th November
BUUUUZZZzzzzzzzzzz there was a hive of activity before the meeting started with the room being decked out in yellow and black, busy bees were buzzing around working together creating delicious honey for us to taste. The food table looked amazing with treasured delights spread out for all to consume.
The theme for this meeting was Honey Bees and people were encouraged to dress in yellow and black which some people did. Others were wearing bee ties or clips to add to the atmosphere, Lots of tiny bumble bees were buzzing around as members roamed around meeting and greeting guests, some returning for second visits and we had a past member Sam Lapere visiting us once again as he is to leave New Zealand for Sweden and a new adventure awaits him.
Following Magda, the Presidents welcome and Audrey giving the Chairman’s greeting, Kevin entertained us with the smile story, regaling some colourful characters he met when he was in the United States which did indeed get us smiling.
Martin introduced us to the Word of the night which was absquatulate – to leave abruptly.
After the meeting some did just that while others stayed, helped and chatted with old and new found friends.
Back to the start.
Richard, the Toastmaster, then donned his bee keeping glove his face cover and Bee
Keepers hat and told us how he used to be a beekeeper and how we need to be nice to bees. He said that there were 28 species of native bees and that they didn’t all make honey.
He then introduced Devi Subramaniam – Jackson who did a 30-min educational presentation on Pathways, complete with background music from the Orchestra next door and challenges with the computer and video technology.
We saw that Pathways is a new concept to be embraced and we are looking forward to doing that at our very next meeting on the 30th November.
This was followed by the afore mentioned delicious food prepared by Kevin including Christmas pudding and mince pies to get us into the festive mood.
Richard then introduced our 3 speakers for the night.
The first was Priya who gave us a bit of a history of cash, credit and bitcoins. People used to barter commodities and coins and notes were introduced as it was so much easier to use them than dividing up a cow for something such as bananas.
Priya was followed by Jim who gave us an entertaining speech on blind dating in China as a way of finding a potential spouse which is popular in China. At one stage he felt as if her was the last guy of all his friends to get married but was too busy working to have time to find a wife. He demonstrated how he prefers to meet people by going up and sharing Liz’s hand and asking her a question.
Chris’s speech was entitled crossroads and he talked about wanting to find another job and having to evaluate what he wanted to do next. He talked about what was important, what was negotiable and what wasn’t for another position.
Great textbook evaluations by Brett, Magda and Anji. Magda used the new pathways format for her evaluation instead of the CRC method.
Table topics were introduced by Phil Jackson and covered a wide variety of areas taking on more of a quiz format showing us a new way of doing things. The evaluators Steve and Supriya did a great job with some good suggestions. Then for the grammarians, ah counters and time keeper’s reports followed by Faqir as the general evaluator.
A new member was inducted, Saranraj was confirmed as a member and Lisa Morris received the Leadership Excellence Certificate to a standing ovation.
Our wonderful guests were invited to share their experience of their evening with us and the meeting was adjourned with closing comments from Magda van Rooyen our club president.
We are all looking forward to our next meeting on the 30th and invite you all to come again.
