The regular meeting No. 511 was held on July 27th at Tsujido library with 12 active members and one guest who was going to join our club.
President TM E. M. called the meeting to order at 14:10 on time. He reported four members from STMC joined Club Officers Training on 14th July and also introduced F-Place for our new meeting place.
<Word of the Day>
Grammarian TM T.O. introduced the Word of the Day “sustainable” (adj.) as well as the derivative; sustainability (noun). He explained the word by using some examples such as Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town, a totally sustainable form of transport and sustainable development goals (SDGS). He encouraged the word to be used.
<Toastmaster of the Day>
TMOD TM T. U. introduced his assistants: Grammarian and Vote counter TM T. O. and Timer K. K. They explained their roles briefly to the guest.
<Joke Session>
Joke master TM T.A. told funny stories.
Everybody enjoyed her stories.
<Prepared Speech Session>
TMOD TM T.U. introduced 3 speakers with the answers they gave to the question: “What is your Memories of summer or obon holidays?
The 1st Speaker TM K. T.
His speech was for CC Project#10, Inspire Your Audience, the title was “My journey of learning foreign languages”.
This was his last speech as a Toastmaster. He’d like to tell was that it is never too late to start leaning something through the speech “My journey of leaning foreign languages” by introducing his carrier and his learning of foreign languages. He said that If you acquire foreign languages in your youth, that would be excellent. However, even if you start leaning in a late stage of your life, if you carry on patiently, that will certainly bear some fruit, and enrich your life. Toastmasters Club is an ideal place for it. He concluded his last speech as follows. I sincerely hope that you will enjoy Toastmastering, and Shonan Toastmasters Club will flourish more than ever.
The 2nd speaker TM Y. U.
His speech was for Pathways “Innovative Planning” Level 1-2-1, Evaluation and Feedback. The title was “I don’t want to be dementia”.
He had a lot of worry about his age. Even though he thinks people aged 70s are still far from dementia, some of people in his age are dementia. At that time, He received a guide to a dementia test as a preparation for a car license renewal. The test results arrived from the driving school. The results indicated that there was no worry of dementia. Recently, the news of car accidents by elderly people have been focused. Next time, maybe it would be an opportunity for him to think seriously about giving up renewal regardless of dementia.
The 3rd speaker TM E. M.
His speech was for Pathways “Innovative Planning” Level 1-2-2, Evaluation and Feedback. The title was “My home doctor.
He has some medical conditions. It includes medical examination twice a month, taking 7 kind of medicines a day and carrying out regularly some medical checks. The more the disease gets worse, the more medical expense increases. The expense is a serious burden on a pensioner. His home doctor provided a proposal for his new treatment without consideration of his financial situation. Although he got angry at his doctor’s proposal, he thought he had to go along with his home doctor because he knew precisely the condition of his health. The most pleasant day for him now is that after seeing the doctor, he drops by a supermarket and enjoy eating his favorite melon bread and Daifuku cake at a food court.
<Table Topics Session>
TM N. N. served as Table Topic Master. He asked 5 questions. Questions were as follows:
1. What is the most important thing in life?
2. The best teacher you’ve ever had in life.
3. The best lesson you’ve ever learned in life.
4. What suggestion would you like to give us
to make this club better?
5. The unforgettable experience you’ve ever had in life.
<Evaluation Session>
After 20-minute intermission, the Evaluation Session started at 15:55.
General Evaluator TM T. O. took the control of the Evaluation session.
He introduced 3 evaluators, TM. E.M., TM A.T. and TM T.K.
Each evaluator appreciated each speaker’s speech pointing out good points and gave constructive suggestion to improve the speech more.
<Award Presentation>
Awards were presented as follows:
TMOD Award TM E. M. for accepting double roles
Best Table Topics Speaker TM M. H.
Best Evaluator TM A. T.
Best Prepared Speaker TM K. T.
After the regular meeting, Declaration/Induction ceremony for Mr. T.K. was held. He expressed his will to join us and he was accepted unanimously by the members. We are excited to have you with us!
Three members engaged in STMC activities for a very long time left our club at the end of July. We thank for their contribution to the club and wish their future wonderful life!
The meeting was adjourned on time.
By T. U.