{"id":36,"date":"2007-10-20T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-08-30T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:06:02","slug":"district-63-conference-nashville-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/district-63-conference-nashville-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"District 63 conference, Nashville, Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Opryland! Friday night’s highlight is a roast of the Immediate Past District Governor — I think that’s an awesome idea, and I’m going to suggest it in my home district — next year! Silvana Clark<\/a> delivered a very funny and yet educational keynote on making club meetings more fun. The theme is “Change is A-OK!”, and includes fun ideas like beach ball bingo table topics (questions written on a beach ball, throw it around, and the catcher responds to the question closest to their right thumb), vacation photos, true newspaper headlines, and untraditional holidays.<\/p>\n

There’s a great hospitality suite in one of the hotel rooms, with soda, small sandwiches and an endless supply of little snack cakes, cases and cases of them! In fact, these were a good number of the raffle prizes! They also have a silent auction with dozens of things to bid on, ranging from gently-used books to enormous gift baskets of coffee, tea, and chocolate!<\/p>\n

Saturday starts off with an invitation-only breakfast, for those who reached specific goals. One neat idea is that anyone who has ever won the TI award for signing up 15 members within a single Toastmasters year (earning a scarf or tie) gets to attend these conference breakfasts for life — so I was eligible!<\/p>\n

Lunch is followed by a short address by Dietmar Wagenknecht, the hall of fame awards and the evaluation contest. Mid-afternoon is the business meeting, and dinner is followed by the humorous speech contest.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the district 43 conference is this same weekend in Memphis, but my campaign manager, Joan Diehl covered that since it’s her home district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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