It was raining in the morning, but it turned to be sunny in the afternoon. 19 fellow members and 1 guest attended the meeting. The number of attendees is historically low, so we need to be more positive and active!
Word of the day was “Superior“, which was presented by TM E.M..
In the business session, VPPR, TM M.H. introduced this website that was built newly and was just publicized from Oct. 09.
Toastmaster of the day or TMOD was TM Y.T. who is a veteran Toastmaster and a good English speaker.
At beginning of the meeting, jokmaster, TM M.K. talked four funny stories. The first one was about a small old woman who was eating a senbei appeared with turning seat of the train that I got on, the second story was that I had been told “There is no hope, but there is light”, the third one was about that Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi challenged to use Japanese chopsticks in Japan travel, and the last story was that a consideration about a joke and Japanese people ~ They can laugh at one joke three times. Each one was funny and made audiences laugh.
In the prepared speech session, five speakers delivered their speeches. The first speaker was TM V.W. whose title was “I’m Koike, Shinzo (New Japanese prime minister)”, which was a persuasive speech with many humorous points. The second speaker was TM K.K. whose project was “Delivering bad news”, the title was “Club Dues Hike”. The third speaker was TM A.M. whose title was “Have you ever experienced an impulse shopping?” The fourth speaker, TM L.C. delivered a humourous speech titled “How to determine if you are addicted to Toastmasters”. The last speaker was TM T.O. whose speech was “Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum is worth visiting”, he introduced Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Munseum and recommended audiences to visit it. Finally, the fourth speaker, TM L.C. was voted to be the best speaker.
In the Table Topic session, TM T.N. asked five questions about the most memorable story or personal experience in Autumn. Q1: Tell us about your most impressed book in life and why?, TM A.M. answered it. Q2: Tell us about your most beautiful autumn leaves you have ever enjoyed, which was answered by TM E.M.. Q3: Tell us about your favorite music you enjoyed when you were young, say, in your twenty’s or in your thirty’s, this question went to TM T.I.. Q4: Tell us about your most memorable athletic meet in your childhood, TM M.K. answered it. Q5: Tell us about your memories of seven-five-three festival of your children or grandchildren, which was answered by TM K.K..
Finally, TM M.H. hosted the evaluation session. Five evaluators gave appropriate advice to each prepared speakers about their speeches, which were very helpful.
Thanks to TMOD, TM Y.T. controlled the meeting sophistically and successfully.
[Award presentation]
TMOD Award: TM T.N. The best Table Topics Speaker: TM A.M. The best Evaluator: TM A.T. The best Prepared Speaker: TM L.C.
Welcome Mr. H.M. join us!
After the regular meeting, the Declaration Ceremony was held for Mr. H.M., this is his third time visit us and he would like to join us. He said in this declaration message that the reason why he want to become a member of this club is mainly because he is interested in boosting Japanese tourism industry, in order to contribute to that situation as one of Japanese he determine to improve his communication skill in English through this club‘s activities. What a wonderful and impressive massage! All of us are very excited to have Mr. H.M. be one of us. We hope that he will achieve a lot through Toastmasters club activities.