My husband and I attended our school hostel’s yearly ‘Candle light dinner’ the other day.  It’s a fund-raising event (all school and hostel events seem to be fund raising these days). Yes, you guessed it, there were speeches, announcements, an auction… plenty of them…

Aaah, what a pleasure it was to listen to the hostels’ patron introducing the evening:

She spoke with wonderful clear pronunciation, and loud enough to reach even those people who chit-chatted during her speech.  Her emphasis was varied and interesting, she has a well-rounded voice (like some of the lovely red wine we had for the evening).

She did not ‘hit’ us with her voice over the microphone (ok, our female voices don’t usually do that, but guys, do you know how to use the microphone without causing damage to our ears?)

But best of all: she painted pictures for us in our minds – describing places, smells, events, people, activities, colours – we could imagine the scene – and she had us spell-bound!