The meeting #622 was held on June 18th at Hatobakaikan.
That was the last meeting under President Nakanishi in this term.
The theme of this meeting, “What did you achieve in this term ?”.
And Word of the Day presented to use in the meeting, “Dedicate/Dedication”.

We had two big events:
One was Induction ceremony, “Welcome Mr. H in our club”
and the other, Installation for the new President and Officers for the next
term.

Educational sessions were as follows:
*Joke conducted by TM G was great fun and everyone laughed a lot.
 “English originates from Japanese”, Kill—-Kill（斬る）
*Table Topic by TM F was a two-alternative question.
 Ex, Which do you want to get, an ability to speak all languages or an
ability to communicate with animals ?
 Each question was pleased and fantastic and was easily answered.
*Prepared Speech
 Three speeches were all wonderful.
 TM H made a nice debut talking about herself before an audience.
 TM H did a speech having a great massage, “To whom would you speak ?”
 TM Y delivered a speech along to the objectives of the manual and took the
　best speaker’s prize.
*Evaluation by TM N ran smoothly.

Thank you all participants and all role takers !
President N and All Officers, thank you for dedicating to  Yokohama TMC!
I was very pleased as well as honored to serve as TMOD in the last meeting.

第622回例会は波止場会館で執り行われました。
今期プレジデントＮの下での最後の例会でした。
今日の例会テーマ：あなたは今期何を達成しましたか。
例会で使用を提案された言葉： 「専念する・献身」
この例会で二つの式典、入会式と次期役員就任式が執り行われました。

教育セッション：
＊　ジョークはTM Gが紹介した「英語は日本語から発生してる」の話は
　　なるほど納得の共通性が大いな笑いをとった。
＊　3つのスピーチはどれも素晴らしいものでした。
　　ＴＭ　Ｈはクラブで初スピーチ、わかり易い話ぶりで自己紹介をしました。
＊　総合論評は現プレジデントの最後のしごと。

プレジデントMr.Nとオフィサーの皆さま、「この一年、お疲れさまでした、また有難うございました」
今期最後の例会を司会でき光栄でした。

” Do you want to be eternal youth and immortality?”
The meeting theme was little bit difficult.
Though, role takers answered meaningful comments.
In this half of year, I lost my parents. Members message encouraged me.
Of course, role takers performance were so wonderful. and General Evaluation was excellent.
Thank you everyone.
TOMD I

Answers for theme are following.

1.My answer for the next theme is

“No I don’t. Because I think eternal life seems boring.
However, I want to live a long and healthy life.”

2.I don’t want to be. Because if I have the eternal youth and immortality, only I will stay young while my friends and family are getting old. Even my son will become older than me. It’s unacceptable for me!

3.My answer for this question is “NO”.
It must be sad if I lived forever without my family and friends.
However if all people could be eternal youth and immortality, I also want to be it together!

4.I want to know until when I can live.
Because, before I say good bye to this world, I want to say “thank you for everything” to all of my family and friends.

5.As a girl, I never like the idea of getting old, and of course living forever is great. However, if I am the only one to survive while my family and friends all pass away, life would be very hard. I will become very lonely and bore to die ( but can not). Therefore, I prefer a normal life as long as I am happy at every moment of it.

6.Yes, if possible.
I wish I have eternal youth and immortality, but I understand it is not realistic.
Therefore my substantial aim to my life is to live happily as long as possible.
I have been trying to make some physical and mental exercises and will keep on making them as long as I can in order to live happily.
I usually go to a fitness club and go for walking for a couple of hours on weekend for keeping my health well.
I am trying to use my brain to avoid dementia which may happen to me when I get older. To study English is one of the ways not to deteriorate my brain.
As another factor for living a life happily, I believe we need a certain objectives and a kind of self-satisfaction to our life. I am thinking of contributing to the society around me to some extent as one of my objectives after my retirement, for example.

7.Answer to your question
If it is applicable only me, of course, I want to have eternal youth and immortality.
If many people could have the eternal youth and immortality, we will face:
– Population problem, causing shortage of foods　
– Economy problem, causing the Immortal people must work for ever
interfaring real young peoples chances of promotion, advancement