7th Annual All Ukrainian Speech Contest (16/04/2011)
by Alex Sheremet
16 April 2011, Klovsky Lyceum — It was the All Ukrainian speech contest, the biggest event in the community of Toastmasters Ukraine.
More than 140 people have attended the event and witnessed 13 articulate and very creative speeches delivered by representatives of 7 Toastmasters Clubs.
The winners of the contest were:
First place – Evgenia Poluektova, with speech titled “Too much information”, Chamber Toastmasters Club, Kyiv
Second place – Ilona Postemskaya with speech titled “The biggest evil”, Chamber Toastmasters Club, Kyiv
Third place – Zoya Gulko, with speech titled “This is Her Future”. Toastcraskers Toastmasters Club, Kyiv
The wining speech described a life of a modern intellectual worker, who gradually gets overwhelmed with all the events and messages from the surrounding world. Its message was to limit the information flow, and only pay attention to things that matter the most.
The topics were diverse and interesting, the speakers delivered thought provoking points of view. There was a place for various emotions, seriousness, horror, and loud laughter.
A panel of 8 judges from different clubs evaluated contestants. The speakers were acknowledged to be the top performers in their clubs during local speech contests. Criteria used in judging included speech content, organization, voice quality and body language.
Both participants and spectators enjoyed the event. We want to thank the organizers and sponsors, which are
Mykola Latansky – prominent Toastmaster and life-long sponsor of Toastmasters in Ukraine
Informational partners of the event: www.osvita.org.ua , education.ua, www.ligauba.org.ua.
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by Katerina Zarubina
7th Annual All-Ukrainian Toastmasters Speech Contest. This one is my 2nd in fact. It worth participating, fellows, either you win or lose. The contest was enriched with a lot of new experiences and emotions.
And now I’m waiting for choosing the order of my performance. Where is my bang? All the balls are pulled out from the basket and the only left was the 5th one. It seemed a pretty good destiny “choice”.
I was sitting next to other contestants listening to one speech changing another. At that very moment it was a great desire to scream out how very much I like salsa in addition to tango. The only speech I’d like to perform then is to dance and to let my body speak. However, suddenly my mind caught the vivid reasons why work can be the biggest evil in my life. In essence, I reflected on my willingness to be at least self-employed and work for the idea I believe in. Meanwhile, my stomach started giving the sings that it wouldn’t mind to take some tasty lasagna. Thus, I had to come it down and rebuke mildly: “Even now it’s all about food for you!”
At last my time stroke to perform “25. Watch out!”. So many times rehearsed, so many times revised and remade, so many efforts – and the resistance feeling of what I had and what I’ve got now was telling me I’ve wasted a lot of my non-renewable resource. Now my tricky consciousness woke up and asked: “Do you want to be a star?” I realized that in fact I didn’t want to be a star. I wanted to go to LAS VEGAS!!! Now I do as well. Very much. And here I remembered Lyubomyr telling us about Michael Jordan: “It doesn’t matter how many winning shuts you missed. Without them it would be impossible to play so many victorious games.” I started to save my money in the honeypot J It was useless to stack my head with too much information that all efforts were pointless. This is not her, his or their future. This is my future I want to live as if tomorrow would never come.
One day in September my friend’s friend will ask me in FB: “What’s up, girl? How was your LAS VEGAS? 
This is my future. It is fantabulous either I win or lose. And what is yours?
