第626回YTMC例会
8月20日（土）14時～16時　＠波止場会館

今回は７名のゲスト参加、そして新たにHさんとYさんが正式メンバーに加わり、
いつも以上にフレッシュな雰囲気で例会が行われました。

例会のテーマは、
“What’s your favorite weapon to beat the summer heat?”
みなさんユニークな回答でグッジョブ！（下部に掲載）

今回は特別にFさんによる「即興スピーチのコツ」のプレゼンテーションがありました。
役立つ内容もさることながら、ユーモアや動きのある魅力的なスピーチはさすがでした。
次回のインハウスコンテンストスピーチ）」なので、出場者のみなさんは是非参考にしてもらえればと思います。

準備スピーチは４名。 全員１年以内入会のフレッシュなメンバーでしたが、
ベストスピーカーのNさんはじめ、みなさん個性的で興味深いスピーチでした。

３回目のTMOD（Toast of the day: 進行役）でしたが、
今回もメンバーみなさんのご協力のありがたみを実感した例会でした。

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The meeting#626 was held on Aug 20th at Hatoba kaikan.
7 guests attended the meeting and 2 new member joind YTMC!

TM F gave us the special presentation.
“Better Speaker Series: Impromptu Speaking”
It was very informative speech with humor, and I’m sure it’ll help us to make impromptu speech.
Especially for contestants on next Inhouse Contest! (Table topic speech contest)

There were 4 prepared speeches.
and they were all unique and interesting.

“The best accommodation in the mountain” by TM H
“Do Japanese like scents?” by TM H
“The Best Friends ; Unconditional Love” by TM N (Best Speaker!)
” I have nothing to talk” by TM S

As TMOD, I’m very grateful for every member’s support.
Everytime I take this role, I realize that member’s support is momentous.
Thank you so much!

TMOD F

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#Meeting theme
“What’s your favorite weapon to beat the summer heat?”

Thank you all answerers!

“Hiyasi-Chuka! I think it’s the best food in summer!”

” My weapon is Shaved Ice!”

“My favorite weapon to beat summer heat is eating cooling fruit such as watermelon
and yogurt or the combination of them.Also, I drink lots of water during summer.”

“Mojito!!”

“It is to eat cooled fruits like pears, grapes or watermelon
in the room without air conditioner.”

“My favorite weapon to beat the summer heat is the Ocean.
I love to swim and I was in Shikoku recently enjoying the cool ocean in the Shima-Nami-Kaido area!”

“Listen to Hawaiian?music on the?balcony at night.”

“To keep my body cool with my portable bottle with green tea!”

“What I usually do is to go the gym and sweat a lot. In addition to the exercise, I like sweating in the sauna.
Sweating a lot and then taking a shower afterword make me refreshing.”

“My favorite provision to beat the summer heat is “ume or prum-syrup” that I make late June every year.
The whole process of making the syrop is so much fun and it starts from picking riped prums from the yard.
During the process, the soothing sweet-sour scent fills the kitchen and it makes me so happy.
As soon as I come home worn out by the severe summer heat outside,
I rush to the frigde and drink a glass of prum juice. Then I come to life.
I cannot live without it in high summer.”

“Beating hot and my sleepy is Used By Hot thing
ex.Hot spring, exercise, hot shower of sun or water”

“My favorite weapon is “To go to the place where it’s cooler than here.”

What a hot day! So as our meeting #625 was filled with passion. We had 22 active members with 3 guests and most of us went to after meeting party at Zou-no-hana Café for cool drinks.
The main theme of today’s meeting was “intuition” in Japanese “Chokkan”.
By incorporating intuition in speech making process, we are able to come up with more possible solutions to solve problems.　

In Table Topic Session, Table Topic Master give us topics to talk about without advance notice. Everytime, we practice to deliver a speech instantly. There is no right or wrong answers for the question. The only rule is to deliver your messages in which you believe and to share with others. And it is our intuition that makes our speech different.

Conglaturation for those of who won the Best Table Topic, Evaluator and Speaker. And the most of all, thank you for all members coming to meeting with a high sense of motivation and sharing an inspiring moment together.

TMOD K

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The meeting #623 was held on July 2nd at Hatobakaikan.
That was the first meeting under President I in this term.
He addressed the slogan of YTMC in this term.
” Enjoy Your Club and Enjoy Your Life”. 

There was no silent member in this meeting.
Everybody attended it, positively and actively.
TM H, TM A, and TM K did their first each role, and succeeded.
It is amazing.

Thank you all participants and all role takers.
I was very pleased as well as honored serve as TMOD in the first meeting, at my first TMOD.
We succeeded with TM veteran’s support.

TMOD MN.

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第623回目ミーティングを7/2 に波止場会館で開催しました。
I会長になってからの初めてのミーティングです。
彼は今期のYTMCのスローガン「クラブを楽しむ、人生を楽しむ」についてスピーチをしました。

会議中に一言も発しないメンバーはいませんでした。
全員が、積極的に会議をもりあげました。
Hさん、Aさん、Kさんは今回、それぞれの役割が初めての経験でした。
素晴らしい！！

ありがとうございます。
今期最初の司会を初めてのTMODでやらせていただき光栄です。
ベテランの方々のアドバイスの基、会議を滞りなく遂行しました。

TMOD MN.

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

YTMC regular meeting was held at Hatoba-Kaikan.
Then we had a special event
That was Rookie’s Mini Contest!!!
This contest was the last event that I give members as VPE.
Why did I plan such an event?
YTMC got many new members recently.
And they have a high motivation for giving speech.
I wanted to react their needs, but it was difficult to make it come true at a normal speech session.
That’s why, I planned this event.

Though three rookies couldn’t join this contest, four rookies gave their own speech with their own characters.
And TM T.N got first place with her favorite food “Spaghetti Meet Source”
TM N.W was second place. She got into tour guide of Sri lanka during her speech.

After the contest TM K.T gave a special tips session to us.
The theme was “Why YTMC?”
We chose YTMC among others.
More over many members belong to only YTMC
Why?
TM K.T asked members some questions about “Why YTMC?”
We could think of “Why YTMC?” each other.
That was a very nice session to know why members choose YTMC.

And I asked members the following question as TMOD.
“If you express YTMC in one word, which word is your best?”
My answer is “Serendipity”
YTMC attracts various people, and give us opportunities to meet them.
And members enhance their own skills eachother at YTMC.
What a wonderful club, isn’t it!!
I’m really glad I could find this club.
In the future, whom I can meet at YTMC? And what I can learn at YTMC?
I get excited when thinking about that!

The next meeting will be held on Jun 4th.
TMOD is our new President TM S.I!!
Don’t miss it!

Greetings All,

On an optimal, warm and sunny spring day, we conducted the 2016/2017 Officer’s Election process.  The nomination committee did an optimal job finding nominees for each position and they were voted on and elected by all the present membership. 

Keeping with the election theme, we allowed Role Takers to become the Prime Minister letting me know what one thing they would change about Japan.  We had some very good ideas from all role takers, who would all make optimal Prime Ministers someday J

We had to leave Tips and the Joke session out but Table Topics was interesting as TM I asked questions about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)  It was a rather difficult subject for the members chosen but they managed to put their Toastmasters skills to the test and come through with flying colours. 

The prepared speeches were all interesting with TM K taking best Speaker of the Day with some great advice about Stage Fright.  The performance wasn’t optimal but he did well to get over his stage fright and received some great tips from TM J.  We also heard about TM G explaining the origins of his name and our President N describing Toastmasters and what potential it has to make us better leaders and communicators.  He inspired us all with his CC Manual 10^th Speech and we should all congratulation him on his achievement of the Competent Communication Manual! 

TM K wrapped up the meeting with an optimal general evaluation and kept it kindly short as we were running out of time.  TM T performed the Grahco role for the first time and if you haven’t guessed already, the Word of the Day was “Optimal”.  We also had rookie role takers with TM K doing Vote Counter and TM T performing the Timer role. 

Thanks to all participants on making this meeting an optimal experience for myself and all members!  Please do join us again in a few weeks for our next meeting.  

Your TMOD