Impromptu Speech at Varsity

It was our weekly Varsity Club Meeting and we were all set for our usual three prepared speeches. Unfortunately two people had to cancel at the last minute due to an emergency. I began to panic, we were expecting a few guests tonight and first impressions always count. I did not want our guests to shy away from Toastmasters due to an unforeseen circumstance, or a poor meeting.

I spoke to Jasvir just as we were getting the room ready, and coerced, I mean asked him nicely to give a speech. He had about 10 minutes before the meeting was about to start. He accepted.

The speech started out talking about how a day was going terribly wrong. He then proceeded to weave an extraordinary story as to how things started going from wrong to right, and everything seemed to work, and before he knew it, it turned out to be a great day.

The message Jasvir conveyed was that we should always look on the positive side of things. Also when we interact with people in any service industry a smile and friendly manner will get you a lot further than if you lose your cool and start yelling like a maniac.

Jasvir did what I thought was impossible, he came up with a brilliant speech in less than 10 minutes and delivered it flawlessly. If it not were the fact that I knew he only prepared it 5 minutes ago, I would have sworn that he put in a lot of time and effort into this speech. It was simply amazing.