Date and Time: 14:00-16:00, August 15th, 2020

Venue: Yokohama City Kaiko Kinen Kaikan #9 Conf Room + Zoom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The regular meeting on August 15th was held online and onsite simultaneously.

Induction ceremony has been made because a SriLankan friend expressed his intention to be a our member.

His enrollment was successfully granted. Congratulations!

The meeting theme was “Summer drink or food”, we could know drink/food each members would like to have in hot weather. Beer is majority in our club because many of us go to pub after the meeting.

 

TM D.T. conducted table topic session, it was the first attempt for him.

Questions were realated Obon holiday.

it is something conventional theme but his questions were interesting and creative

like about agent service for visiting a grave and online homecoming gathering etc.

 

As for prepared speeches, we could enjoy listening to variety of speeches.

A new member TM K.I. did icebreaker speech,

TM T.N. explained leadership style referring to Chinese political philosopher- Han Fei,

TM R.K. offered the YTMC’s PR strategies and TM H.A.

TM H.A. shared how to deal with the emotions from her real life.  

 

Evaluators gave valuable feedback to each speaker, I am sure they will take those and plug into their next speech.

 

 

26 participants enjoyed the weekend theater (Onsite: 15+1 guest / Online: 8+2guests) even Obon holiday week,

It was fantastic and I recognize engagement to our club is high.

 

The next meeting held on September 5th will be a special. Table Topics Boot Camp!

Your participation will be greatly appreciated.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

 

 

The 719th meeting

Date & Time: 14:00, Aug 1st, 2020

Venue: Yokohama City Kaiko Kinen Kaikan #7 Conf Room

 

The 5th hybrid meeting was conducted with 25 participants (13+1 Onsite and 6+5 via Online)

Sudden Zoom software shutdown happened at the very beginning of the meeting, but resumed soon thanks to our IT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our president took Table topic master role, he gave us interesting questions about vacation.

Respondents were struggled with crafting the answers, it was like brain teasers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are 4 prepared speakers, 1 from online and 3 onsite.

We listened to the icebreaker of veteran member, two of them shared us the lifestyle change because of pandemic.

Also, a member explained the research of the history of Germany. 

 

Evaluation session was made by 4 evaluators, they gave valuable feedback to each speakers.

A member took evaluator of evaluator role, everyone reminded the basics of evaluation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was interesting that all best speakers (Table topic, Evaluator and Prepared speaker) are from online.

Great job all awarded members!

 

Also, the good thing for us was a guest showed the intention to join our club, would like to keep this momentum.

 

After the regular meeting, we went pub to make a reflection of the meeting as usual.

 

Our next meeting will be held on Aug 15th at the same venue.

Am looking forward to meeting you all.

 

-R

 

 

Meeting #718

Date&Time: 14:00-16:00, July 18th, 2020

Venue: Bankokubashi Conf Center #405 + Zoom

Theme: “Summer has come!”

 

We conducted 4th hybrid meeting.

There were 21 participants in the meeting (13 members + 1 guest onsite and 5 members + 2 guests via online)

One of experienced members took TMOD job. He used a face shield to prevent coronavirus, it was cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had four prepared speakers and evaluators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each speaker performed amazing speech with creative approach.

• Made icebreaker regarding the life after retirement
• Elaborated how to convince partner to buy piano.
• Sharing the article of toastmasters magazine
• Introduced The book reading with daughter

 

Even we faced trouble in audio, our meeting was successful.

The next meeting will be held at Kaiko Kinen Kaikan.

 

See you soon.

-R