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

The 600^th Meeting Report

Yokohama Toastmasters Club celebrated a monumental landmark by reaching its 600^th meeting. For 27 years YTMC has been setting a great example as the most prominent club in the area and this meeting was exciting and action packed with a host of guests.

Toastmaster of the Day (TM Froebe) kicked off proceedings running through the schedule and discussing how we moved from Creating Pleasure with Your Performance to this year’s slogan, Gateway to Your Future!

The Word of the Day was “Brilliant” and used well throughout the meeting. Our former President TM Taketomi got us off to a laughing start with his jokes and we moved along to TM Arai’s Table Topic sessions. She did a brilliant job bringing back good memories from our more members and guests, some of whom were there for the initial founding of YTMC.

The prepared speech sessions were equally entertaining with our best speaker TM Tsubaki giving an interest speech about her Battle with Mr C. (Many are still wondering who or what Mr. C is) TM Nakanishi took us back a few years when he started Toastmasters and described the benefits he has enjoyed. TM Saito fought valiantly through his speech about his first boss but took the strong constructive criticism from TM Kawakami well. We should expect some good improvement as he moves on to his next project.

TM Tachi had some glowing praise for the meeting in her General Evaluation but indicated the lack of our very own Tips session. This was left out due to the 4^th speaker and the great number of guests commenting at the end of the meeting.

TM Tsubaki (Best Speaker), TM Iimure (Best Table Topics), TM Kawakami (Best Evaluator) were awarded and we wrapped up proceeding with a great number of brilliant guests congratulating YTMC on our achievement and the quality of the meeting.

Thank you to all our wonderful guests but a special thanks needs to go to our Members, who with their presence and efforts towards their Toastmaster Projects are keeping the YTMC dream alive.

Your TMOD,

Manfred Froebe

A new term of Toastmasters began on July 1st.

The regular meeting on July 4th was the first meeting in this term.

Mr. Nakanishi, our new president, remarked on his hopes and introduced our new slogan, “Gateway to Your Future”.

We had 3 guests, two of whom were non-Toastmasters expressed their intentions to join our club at the end of the meeting. “They will open gateways to their futures!”  We had a 3rd veteran guest, who won the best Table Topics speech with a great performance.

“Enthusiastic” was introduced by the GRACHO as word of the day, a key  word to be used throughout the meeting.  It was a perfect fit as we had an enthusiastic meeting.

The meeting started on time and closed just on time.

We truly got off to a good start at the very beginning of this  term.