2017/3/11 Regular Meeting

No.460 regular meeting was held on March11.2017.

President Chen called No.460 Meeting to order and welcomed a guest. TM A.S. explained “Word of the day.” The word was ”Amicable (adjective)/ Amicably ( adverb) . This word was useful so that many speakers used during their speeches.

Next President Chen introduced TM Y.T.as Toastmaster of the day, (TMOD) to start the main program. It was the memorial day of East Japan Great Earthquake.
All the attendance, 22members offered a moment of silence prayer at 2:45pm.
Grammarian, Ah-Uh counter, Vote counter, and Timer explained their roll.

TM J.Y. was introduced by TMOD as Joke Master.
It was her first time to take a role at the meeting after joining just a month ago.
She introduced two original stories by her own experiences.
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1.YUZU in kanji is same as the letters in China. But the fruit is quite different from Japanese 柚子and Chinese 柚子. Yuzu in China is sweet and big like Japanese BUNTAN 文旦 But Japanese YUZU is small and sour used for cooking or condiment.

2.She got a bottle of juice with a label sketching a cute lemon.
“What an interesting design, it must be yummy too” A few hours later , she felt thirsty and opened the bottle and took a gulp with her mouth open.
She saw her friend’s eye popping out.
It was a bottle of lemon vinegar.
She introduced us the culture differences between Japan and China.

At the prepared speech session we had five speakers.
First speaker TM A.M., delivered the speech titled “Proposing to take blue ocean strategy” based on “Persuasive Speaking”
His speech was that ”Many Japanese companies find themselves faced with dilemma needing to pursue restructuring the mass product field, so  called Red Ocean area, at the same time taking a business strategy, so called Blue Ocean strategy which is service oriented economy and keep the business at bay.
Wow ! ! Regular Meeting is a good place for practicing the presentation on business.

Second speaker, TM Y.U., delivered the speech titled “Beginning your speech”
It was a 10-15 minutes presentation for Advanced Communicator Silver(ACS).

Third speaker, TM Y.T, delivered the speech titled “ On the stage” Competent Communication
Ice Breaker.
She said “I could manage to have my own time after retirement, I’ll be able to stand on a stage” Her speech was magnificent.

Forth speaker, TM Y. O., delivered the speech titled” A contrast” Competent Communication project 6
TM Y.O. delivered a significant contrast of manner speech which he had discovered between two junior high schools. His analytical viewpoint made his speech fun.

Fifth speaker, TM M.K., delivered the speech titled “Get down your backpack” based on the manual “Entertaining Speaker”

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It’s a story of his shouldering backpack caught in the door of train. His action was so realistic. The more he talked , the more the audience laughed. After many stops of JR Yamanote line, he could get off the train with his backpack.

Next session was Table Topics Session conducted by TM C. M.
Five members participated in this session.
He prepared eight pictures and questions.
A participant could choose the picture which he/she prefers the most.
It was given on a first-come-first-served basis.
It was so exciting to see their faces.
Here’s the eight pictures and their questions.

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1. What dish do you cook well? Explain to everyone how you cook it.
2. Imagine you don’t ever need to sleep anymore.  How is your life going to change?
3. What job would you never do no matter how much it paid?
4. What cellphone do you use?  Try to sell it to the person sitting left to you.
5. Try to convince President Trump to change his hairstyle.
6. Do you believe in aliens?  Dop you think they are friedly to human?
7. Please tell us a story, either real or imaginary.  Start with “Oneday, I was walking in a park when suddenly.
8. Do you think about philosophy a lot?  Why? Or why not?
 

TM H.S., chose NO.1
She said ” The most important thing to make the dishes delicious depends on Dashi, stock.
TM K. M., chose No.6
He sayid “To tell the truth, I don’t believe in aliens. But I read the book of the aliens and saw the film of alien. So I feel friendliness to aliens and I want to believe aliens are amicable or friendly to human”
Please see the pictures and questions and try it!!

After 10 minutes break, Evaluation Session started by TM Y.H. with five evaluators.
The evaluators provided their clear-eyed evaluation. Their suggestions helped a lot in order to improve prepared speeches and evaluations.

The Award Presentation
The TMOD Award : TM J.Y. for good preparation. She just joined our club a month ago.
The Best Table Topics Speaker: TM H.S.
The Best Evaluator: TM A.M.
The Best Prepared Speaker: TM M.K.

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2017/3/5 Area 57 Contest

Area 57 International Speech Contest was held on March 5 at Chigasaki Labor Citizenhall.

The Japanese Contest was hosted by Southern Beach Toastmasters Club.
The English Contest was hosted by Shonan TaastmastersClub.

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Area 57 consists of 4 clubs, Southern Beach TMC, Odawara TMC, Mishima TMC and Shonan TMC.
More than 50 members of 4 clubs participated in the contest to support and cheer their representatives.
Six contestants in Japanese and 7 contestants in English competed for the Area Champion.

All the contestants showed their best performance.
The contestant from Mishima TMC in Japanese and the contestant from Southern Beach TMC in English won the victory.
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TM N.N. from STMC was the second place winner in English and the alternate for Division E International Speech Contest to be held on April 2 in Yokosuka city.
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After the contest the party was held in the same room.
As many as 41 Toastmasters participated in the party.
They spent a wonderful time with each other.

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