Irgendwann trifft es jeden. Es muss vor Publikum gesprochen werden und statt die richtigen Worte zu finden, kämpft man mit wackeligen Knien, feuchten Händen und einer zittrigen Stimme. Die Blue Danube Speakers Linz sagen dem Lampenfieber den Kampf an: Bei ihren regelmäßigen Treffen trainieren sie...
Es ist wieder so weit: die Blue Danube Speakers veranstalten einen englischsprachigen Redewettbewerb inmitten von Linz. Dieses Mal geht es aber nicht wie gewohnt um vorbereitete Reden, sondern um kurze, spontane und vor allem lustige Stegreifreden. „Jeder hat in seinem Leben schon öfters Situationen erlebt, in...
Our next Blue Danube Speakers meeting is our club-contest! We have two kinds of contest in our toastmasters-year! Spring: International Speech and Evaluation Contest Fall: Humorous Speech and Table Topic Contest Journey of an world champion The objective of an International Speech is to move and inspire the audience....
Yesterdays’ meeting was dedicated to Halloween! We got scary speeches and an evaluator almost killed by the speaker. No worries, just kidding, it was a Halloween act by Tomas and Thorsten! They almost scared us to death. Karin already gave speech number four of the competent...
The 13th meeting of Blue Danube speakers started with an advanced speech of Tomáš. He showed us how to do a powerpoint presentation, using a beamer while talking about conspiracy theories. Did you know that Paul McCartney died in a car accident in 1966? After...
Our last venue was Buschenschank Leonding where we already had our summer-event. We are very happy that also guests found to the other location. Although we are a very young club, we had already a couple of advanced speakers. Michaela focused on the structure in her...
On Tuesday, 8th of May, we had an extraordinary meeting. Not an usual one, because it was our first „spring event“ which was inspired by wine. The location - Buschenschank Leonding - was carefully chosen to serve this purpose best. The weather god was in good...
I have plethoric reasons to write this blog entry, but as always, it need a little kick to get me going. Some might have missed a bet at the last meeting (on 29th of April) in which Patrick bet against Tomas who can do more...
EVERYONE IS INVITED!!! Blue Danube Speakers Spring Event is coming. We meet at Buschenschank Leonding, while tasting and drinking some wine and have dinner. The meeting is slimmer organized than usually in order to have time to talk to hour guests! Our wine-master will guide us through...
Who would have thought it? We all dreamed a dolphin’s dream and immediately afterwards had to go through military basic training. Where can you have such extremely contrary experiences within only several hours in the evening? Right! Join Toastmasters! This is where even dreams can...