The regular meeting No. 475 was held on November 25 at Tsujido Library with 17 active members and 1 guest. As usual, we had four sessions including Joke, Prepared speech, Table Topics and Evaluation.

    Firstly, Joke master TM T. K. made a very successful opening for this meeting. Instead of telling jokes, he gave a series of quick thinking quizzes shown below and unique answers from the audience made the meeting room full of laugh. TM T.K. told that those quizzes are used to find generalist who can think flexible enough.
    Quiz 1: There is an elephant and a refrigerator. How do you put the elephant into the refrigerator?
    Quiz 2: There is a giraffe and a refrigerator, how do you put the giraffe into the refrigerator?
    Quiz 3: A lion asked to have an animal meeting, which animal cannot join the meeting?
    Quiz 4: There is a big river where dangerous alligators live, how do you cross the river?

     After the funny Joke session, we had four prepared speakers to deliver their speeches.
    The first speaker was our new member who just joined us in this October, TM M.I. She made her first speech titled “The Ice I want to break is ?”. She introduced herself　very clearly.
    The second speaker was TM T.K., the title of her speech was “Roast to my Grandmother”.
    The third speaker was TM E.M., his speech’s title was “My Granddaughters Ray and Risa”.
    The last speaker was TM C.M., he made a special speech about a book review, the book’s name was “Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life”. According to the book, he told us life’s most important “things”: health, relationships, passion, growth, and contribution. After his speech, a Q&A session of about 3 minutes was set. 

    The third session was Table Topics, which was hosted by TM J.Y. She elaborately prepared questions with beautiful seasonal pictures. She asked each speaker to select a favorite season at first, and then a question appeared. A lot of attendees said that was a unique Table Topics session.

    The last session was Evaluation, General Evaluator TM Y.T. hosted it.
The Evaluators, TM T.I., TM T.O. and TM M.H. evaluated the first, second and the third prepared speaker’s speeches, respectively. They told their impressions on how well each prepared speech was delivered and also gave suggestions on the points to be improved. Since the fourth speech had a Q&A session, no evaluation was given for it.

Award Presentation
    TMOD Award : TM Y. H. for her taking a substitute role on short notice.
    Best Table Topics Award: TM Y. H.
    Best Evaluator Award: TM M. H.
    Best Prepared Speech Award: TM M. I.

                                                                                       By L. C.