Greetings All,

Our 608th Meeting had the theme of “My Favorite Book” and all role takers did well in sending the TMOD all their interesting books. The Word of the Day was a difficult one “Embolden” which was not used very well throughout the meeting. We have several 1st time guests as well.
We had an induction ceremony for a new member from Vietnam TM Th. She also performed her CC #1 Icebreaker Speech at this meeting. The Table Topics is always interesting and funny when TM Ma. does it and he didn’t disappoint us again with some tough questions.
In our Prepared Speech session, TM Ts. gave us insight into her actual job as an interpreter. TM Fu. explained to us how we can sell our skills online through the crowdsourcing initiative, which was very interesting and a new topic for many.
The General Evaluator TM Fr. took over after the break and reviewed in great detail the meeting even evaluating the Table Topics speakers. We finished with 3 beautiful ladies cleaning up the awards as you can see below.
Thank you all for a great meeting!

VPPR FR on Behalf of the TMOD Im

Greeting all,

The meeting was a special Halloween meeting with some monsters in our midst. We enjoyed Halloween meeting with fantastic costumes like Wizards , Witches, DIY style, Fairies and more.

We especially could honor a few guests from other clubs, who were very positive about answering questions.  They participated so well that they even won the best table topics speaker .

Our very own President made a speech about Runner’s High and then introduced a new catch phrase,  ” Toastmasters’ s High”, which was so impressive and sounded unique!

As TMOD, I was delighted to see all the happy laughing faces during the meeting.  I really appreciated all attendees dedication, and hard work especially TM F for printing out the agenda on my behalf.

Again Thank you everyone. Toastmasters always treat you with no tricks (^o^)v.

Greetings All,

Meeting #605 was full of many virtuosic performances.  Kicked off again by our President N., we enjoyed a great induction ceremony of our new member Toastmaster N.  She was one very delighted to join our family of Toastmasters and we look forward to her speech and leadership performances to come.
Toastmaster I. cracked some nice jokes to get the atmosphere warmed up.  We were entertained by a great Table Topics session hosted by Toastmaster Y.  She kept to the theme of colors and asked various questions to the audience. 
The prepared speech section had some great performances by our stronger speakers.  Toastmaster Ta. first explained to us how much of a miracle we are for making it into this world and the difficulty of pregnancy.  Toastmaster Ts. did some great research to describe the Yukatsu Program concepts regarding Work Life Balance that the government is trying to introduce.  Finally, Toastmaster M. gave his first advanced manual speech about Breaking our Ducks and learning to engage strangers in conversation. 
Overall, many of the speeches and evaluations were too long so we need to work better on our time management.  Our newest member also won her first table topics session!  Congratulations!
See you back in 2 weeks as the story continues with Meeting #606.

Warm Regards,

Yokohama Toastmasters Club

Greetings All,

Our meeting#604 was held at Hatobakaikan and it was a very beautiful sunny day. The meeting started on time at 2pm and today’s TMOD was TM K.T. (me) and at the beginning of the session, I informed the membership that it will be a last chance to conduct the TMOD role before my maternity leave. TM Fujima introduced today’s Word of the day, [fabulously]. Many members used her Word of the Day several times during the meeting.

Today’s Vote Counter was TM G who became our club member on last meeting. Although it was a first role for him, he introduced his role and objective very well. Today’s Table Topic Master was TM C.F who came back to be our member last August and he gave us 5 questions related to Autumn. He ran his session very smoothly.

We had 3 speakers, TM R.K and TM T.T and TM A.T.  TM T.T gave us a very informative speech about nutrition and the benefits of Soymilk. We learned a lot of useful tips about Soymilk and the differentiation between milk and soymilk. TM A.T made a Japanese speech for the practice session of Japanese Evaluation contest.
During the evaluation session, TM H.A gave us 2 evaluation speeches for TM R.K’s speech in English and for TM A.T’s Japanese speech in Japanese.  We all enjoyed and learned from her high quality evaluation speech in both languages. Good luck at the Area Contest!!

Today’s selected best speakers were all women!!!  It became a girl’s day!!! Wow. Congratulation!!

Best Table Topic Speaker – TM. H.I
Best Evaluator – TM H.A
Best Speaker – TM T.T

At the end of the meeting, one of the today’s guests Ms. M.N indicated her intention to become a Yokohama TM Club official member at her next meeting!!

Another good point of today’s meeting was that all attendees had a chance to speak during a meeting. We all enjoyed today’s meeting and end it on time!!

Next regular meeting is on Oct 3^rd at Hatoba Kaikan. See you then!

No.602 Yokohama TMC Regular Meeting was held at Hatoba Kaikan on Aug. 15th.

It was held during the summer vacation, but many members were able to joined.
There were 2 speakers and 2 evaluators.

One special workshop session about speech evaluation was held by Toastmaster Saito.
Throughout the workshop, he asked some questions to the audience, and it was good chance to develop our listening skills because the questions 
included were not only about speech topics but also about the message in each of the evaluation speeches.

Table Topics Session was also interesting.

Thank you for joining us!

Your Toastmaster of the Day,
Ryuma Koganei

On August 1st, our 601st meeting was held at Hatoba-Kaikan. 

The theme for the meeting was “A New Chapter of YTMC Begins!”

Indeed, after a fabulous celebration of our 600th meeting, we Yokohama Toastmasters began a new chapter of our club.

Word of the day was “captivate”.

I hope all the members are well captivated by YTMC activities!

In the tips session, we learned how to prepare for a humorous talk for the audience.

Joke session included some funny stories related to the Osaka dialect!

Table topic session touched upon four thoughtful questions regarding World War II.

We had three speeches at the prepared speech session:

1. “It’s Me, Mom” TM T spoke about sometimes difficult yet heartwarming mother-and-son relationship.

2. “My sweet white fluffy girl” TM Y shared her precious experience with her pet dog back in her parents’ house.

3. “Follow the Mentors” TM M, a guest speaker from Den-en Toshi TMC, told how his passion for Rubik’s Cube was led by three people.

I would like to thank the role takers, members and guests for making the meeting all the more enjoyable.

Your TMOD,

Yumi Tsubaki