第755回例会レポート
開催日時: 2022年2月5日(土)
会場: Hybrid (ぴおシティ6階第2研修室+オンライン)

The 755th regular meeting of YTMC was held at Pio City in Sakuragi-cho for the first time in years. 24 members including 7 online participants got together and enjoyed it.
In this meeting, the workshop about the upcoming officers’ election was scheduled to be held, but the instructor couldn’t make it due to his sudden stomach ache caused by his eating too much spicy food the day before.
TM I, the TMOD of the meeting, rose to the occasion and conducted the impromptu session in which each officer of the current term explained their respective job descriptions and responsibilities. It was such a last-minute happening, but remember, Toastmasters is a place where people learn how to rise to this kind of occasions and make impromptu speeches, isn’t it? So, of course we handled it without problems and made presentations beautifully!
Since the Valentine’s Day was coming soon, the meeting theme was “The memories of chocolate”, and speakers talked about their memories related to chocolates.
The Word of the Day was “conscience / conscientious”. The reason for this choice of word was interesting. The Word of the Day master said that she had asked her American colleague what word she rarely uses in daily life, and his answer was “conscience/ conscientious”. I guess his answer was truly “conscientious”!
The Table Topics Master asked questions about the Olympic Games, which was fun and especially, looking at the struggles of speakers was entertaining!
We had three prepared speakers in this meeting. The first speaker was TM M, a new member, who talked about her injury and how she overcame it and achieved her dream-come-true job.
The second speaker is an experienced TM T, who made his ice-breaking speech for the 3rd time? in his Toastmasters journey. The third speaker was TM S, our president, who rehearsed her speech for the in-house contest scheduled to be held the next day.
The evaluation session was facilitated by the experienced Toastmaster, TM I, from his home online, and three evaluators gave a series of beneficial feedback to their respective speaker. The Best Speaker award was given to our president, TM S, and her mentee, TM K.N., received the Best Evaluator award.
Although the meeting went overtime in a big way due to the impromptu officers presentations, the meeting was again the fruitful one and the big success.
See you again soon!
YTMCの第755回通常例会は、久しぶりに桜木町のぴおシティで開催されました。オンライン参加者7名を含む総勢24名のメンバーが集まり楽しく始まった例会ですが、実は最初からかなりバタバタしました。当初、次期役員選挙に関するワークショップが予定されていたのですが、講師役のメンバーがなんと前日に辛いものを食べ過ぎてお腹を壊し、まさかのドタキャン。TMOD(司会役)のIさんが急遽、今期の各役員が自分の仕事内容や責任について説明するセッションを企画し、ぶっつけ本番で行ったのです! しかしトーストマスターとは、そもそもこのような突然の状況でも即興でしゃべることができる技術を磨く団体ですよね。もちろん全員が何の問題もなくスラスラとこなしましたよ!
この日はバレンタインデーが近かったこともあり、例会のテーマは「チョコレートの思い出」。それぞれのスピーカーがチョコレートにまつわる思い出を語りました。
「今日の言葉/Word of the Day」は「conscience/conscientious : 良心/良心的な」でした。この言葉を選んだ理由が面白い。「今日の言葉」のマスターがアメリカ人の同僚に「普段私があまり使わない言葉は何?」と尋ねたところ返ってきた言葉が「conscience/conscientious : 良心/良心的な」だったそう。彼の答えは、まさに良心的ですね!
テーブルトピックマスターは、オリンピックに関する質問をして会を盛り上げてくれました。当てられたスピーカーが四苦八苦しながら答えるところを見て楽しませていただきました。
今回の例会では、3人の準備スピーカーによるスピーチが披露されました。一人目は、新入会員のTM Mさんで、大怪我をしたこと、そして怪我を克服して念願の仕事を手に入れたことを話してくれました。
二人目は、経験豊富なTM Tさん。長いトーストマスターズ歴の中で3回目となるアイスブレーキングスピーチを披露してくれました。3人目はYTMC現会長のTM Sさんで、翌日出場予定の他クラブでのコンテストに向けて、スピーチリハーサルを行いました。
評価セッションは、経験豊富なTM Iさんが自宅からオンラインで進行し、3人の評価者がそれぞれのスピーカーに有益なフィードバックを行ってくれました。ベストスピーカー賞は会長のTM Sさんが、ベストエバリュエーター賞は彼女のメンティであるTM K.N.さんがそれぞれ受賞しました。
即席の役員プレゼンのため、かなり時間はオーバーしましたが、今回も実りある例会で、大盛況のうちに閉会となりました。
みなさん、またお会いしましょう!




The Yokohama Toastmaster’s 754th meeting was SPECIAL.
After the intermission, the contest continued. In the International English Speech category, we had four contestants who competed one another. First speaker strongly suggested that we follow our instinct in a desperate situation by talking about her childhood memory. The second speaker told us about his dreams with an anecdote of his business trip to the U.S. The third speaker said communication is a gift to you, and his closing remark was so impressive that he won the second place in this category. The fourth speaker delivered the touching story in a comedic manner and gave us a fabulous idea of being our own godfather. He grasped our hearts and won the first place.
横浜トーストマスターズ第754回例会はSPECIALでした。



In the table topic session, the theme was “generation” facilitated by today’s Table Topic Master Mr YO, respondents struggled with squeezing the unique answers for the questions;
1: What is the soul made of? – TM YN raised the scientific question; if teleportation can be done, where will our soul go? The speech came from that. It was a very interesting speech she made.
準備スピーチの部は、4名がスピーチを発表しました。



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Meeting #749 Nov. 6th at Hatoba Kaikan 1F.

先月に行われた新人戦の予選会の表彰もおこないました。 





Meeting #748 Oct. 16th at Hatoba Kaikan 1F. 
Now the table topic session comes.
2.Change the Recipe: TM I used creative movie from his kitchen to talk about management! 
One of my favorite sessions of Toastmaster meeting is Evaluation Session.
What a fantastic meeting!

10月2日は通常の例会ではなく、スペシャルイベント「神奈川地区新人戦インハウスコンテスト」が行われました。(完全オンライン)
そしていよいよスピーチが始まりました。4名のコンテスタントが出場しました。
今回は新人メンバーによるコンテストでしたが、みなさんレベルが高くて、YTMCの層の厚さを感じました。来月の新人戦、そして来年のコンテストもホント楽しみです。