With Sakura in full bloom, we were delighted with the turnout of members for
our YTMC Meeting #593. Although we had to scramble a little before the
meeting to fill all the roles, we could enjoy the meeting and speeches.
Much appreciation has to be given to Toastmaster E.Y,
T.M, and R.K for their great effort in taking double roles.
As for the meeting itself, we started off with the Word of the Day
“outsmart” which we found difficult to use but all of us learned how to
outsmart our way through the Advanced Manuals thanks to the long prepared
speech that Toastmaster Y.K gave on his Toastmasters activities. We
also laughed our way through Toastmaster K.T’s speech about her
husband “What does he do?” and our Speech of the Day award went to
Toastmaster A,I. for his interesting speech “Joyful and Disastrous Trip”
After a short break, we continued with Table Topics. Toastmaster N.F.
chose some veteran and older members to reminisce about their school
graduation and favorite Sakura spots. My mentor Toastmaster A.I showed
his prowess again by outsmarting the other speakers and taking home the best
Table Topics speaker award.
Our 4 guests with 3 of them 1st time visitors could benefit from Toastmaster
T.K.’s 16 minute presentation about his Toastmastering activities and we
hope they will be back to experience meetings in the future.
Thanks to all for participating and looking forward to see you at our
upcoming meetings!

Toastmaster M.F

The YTMC meeting # 592 was held on 21st March. Though it is the holiday -　Spring Equinox Day -, there were not so many attendants. Luckily we had three guests.
The meeting was so energetic to cover some absentees. Especially, some of officers took double and triple roles. As TMOD, I was really touched by their efforts and supports.
Another moment I impressed a lot was TM T. S’s workshop. Following the TM T. N’s workshop at the previous meeting to introduce his role as Treasurer and bring up an issue of the fund of YTMC, TM T. S delivered his speech related his role as VP Public Relations. During his workshop, we are divided into two groups and discussed how to recruit our new members. The discussion was heated up and even guests positively gave comments. It is nice to know what our officers are doing for us.
The meeting was wrapped up on time. It was successful Thank you, all participants for your active commitments If I give one comment, I hope to see as many members as possible at the next time!

TMOD, H. I

—–
Yokohama Toastmasters Club regular meeting #591 was held on March 7th.

After long time, three session of TM Tips, Joke, and Table Topics wase held.
The theme of the speech of TM A.I, was one of topic that we adultｓ
should consider with much time.

And Great News for Yokohama TMC members. TM Taketomi got first prize
at Area 42 Japanese Speech Contest, and try to Division D Speech
Contes.

I hope many people attend the next contest, and enjoy it.
—–

It is my first time to take TMOD in this term.
We have Area 42 Contest on March 1st.
4 members are representatives of YTMC.
VPE set the contest speech practice session for contestants.
3 members gave their contest speech in this session.
After that we have feedback session for the contestants. TM M.F, today’s GE, managed feedback session.
All members can evaluate them.
It was a very good session to better contest speeches.
We have only 5 min, but TM Y.K gave me a memorable question. “Do you enjoy your speech?”
It is very important not only contest speech but also prepared speech.
If you enjoy giving your speech, audiences also enjoy your speech!!
It is your turn during your speech!! So let’s enjoy your speech in YTMC meeting!!

January 17th #588 Regular Meeting Report Regular Meeting Report Our 588th regular meeting was held on January 17th 2015. We came back to our home ground “Hatoba Kaikan” after a big renovation! It was a special occasion for me to perform as Toastmaster of the Day (TMOD) because I first visited Yokohama Toastmasters Club just 6 years ago! I brought the agenda of January 17th 2009 479th meeting to introduce OB/OG members in the good old days. Small tips session and Table Topic session was held at the beginning. I hope members learned some useful ideas of making good impromptu speeches (①Listen→②Pause→③Confirm→④Tell →⑤End). 4 members made speeches in the Prepared Speech session. Since the meeting was held in January, their topics were seasonal (holidays in Malaysia, the 7 Gods of Good Fortune). Also, some members made freshman / good leader’s resolutions. 4 well-experienced Toastmasters performed as Evaluator. They all encouraged 4 speakers by giving wonderful feedback. And finally, the session was concluded by Evaluation Session Master (General Evaluator). I always like her style of making through but crisp comments, especially the way she made fun with my past involvement:-) It was a fruitful meeting as usual. I hope members enjoy great meetings in Hatoba Kaikan as well as I do!

-Date: February 7th, 2014
-Venue: Hatoba kaikan
-Thema: “It is my turn”
-Report
The 589 YTMC regular meeting was held on February 7th(Saturday), 2015.
We had 17 YTMC members, 7 other TMC member and 1 pure guests.
So the number of participants was 25 who came together to enjoy “In-house international speech contest, one of the important annual event for our club.

As the contest chair, I was so happy to hold such a thrilled contest in which 6 contestants presented each four speeches in English and Japanese. For handling it, I was supported by many members of other clubs, as timers, counters and judges. I would like to show my appreciation for the support.
In total, we had eight speeches! All contestants brought laughter to all audiences a lot, even though they seriously competed. Therefore, the time had gone so quickly even if the meeting was thirty minutes longer than usual. Each two winners for English and Japanese speech contest will advance to the next stage, Area 42 contest, on March 1st .
For the day, the four representatives will polish their speeches by themselves as well as by fellow members. Such a process was not only tough but also fruitful.

December 20th. 2014 Meeting#586
Joint Meeting with Den-en Toshi Toastmasters Club / TMOD Meeting Report

Our Joint Meeting by Yokohama TMC and Den-en Toshi TMC has been successfully done on Dec 20th, which was a last meeting in 2014.
Although it was a heavy rainy day, many members gathered the venue and the meeting went very well and finish without any issue!
The meeting them was ‘2014!!’ During my preparation of joint meeting, I had asked all role takes about my question, which was ‘What was your special event or what was your happiest moment in 2014?’
Another theme was ‘Christmas’, so many members worn Christmas costume and some members were dressed in Red, Green or While. So, the atmosphere in the meeting room was really bright like Christmas!!

The meeting started on time by opening remarks from Yokohama TMC President, TM A.T.
At the begging of Table Topic Session, Santa Claus appeared!!! And….. he was TM Y.O of Den-en Toshi TMC. He really looked like a real Santa Claus he gave us a lot of fun during the Table Topic Session. Another Table Topicmaster was TM T.T and both of them gave us the questions related to a meeting them.

Today, we had 6 Prepared Speakers. From Yokohama TMC, TM M.O, TM T.S and TM H.A challenged to be a Speaker. I am sure that they were very nervous because the meeting room was very big and more than 30 members in the room. TM M.O did a great speech even it was her 2nd speech and she shown us many pictures of Ukraine using PC. TM T.S gave us a tips how to survive in our social field and explained his way with a philosophy. I enjoyed listening his real story and his experiences. The advanced speech by TM H.A was about the book written by Sheryl Sandberg. She not only explain the story which she read but also explained what she leaned from the book and how she felt. She did a wonderful job!!

Not only 3 speakers but also evaluators and all support role takes did great jobs during the meeting!! Without all helps by supporters, the meeting wouldn’t run well.
The award winner was below. Congratulations to all winners!!
1, The Best Table Topic Award went to TM T.F (guest from Tachikawa TMC!)
2, The Best Evaluator Award went to TM M.M. (Den-en Toshi TMC)
3, The Best Speaker Award went to TM M.O (Yokohama TMC)
And…today’s special award, the Best Dresser Award went to Me!!(TM K.T from Yokohama TMC)
The meeting ran smoothly according to the agenda and Den-en Toshi TMC President TM K.O made a closing remarks and our joint meeting finished on time!!

The key purpose of joint meeting with Den-en Toshi TM Club was to communicate with each other and learn each other the differentiation.
I hope that everyone enjoyed the meeting and learned something from Den-enToshi TMC members.
As a TMOD, I’d like to say thank you to all role takers and thank you for supporting me during the meeting.

Reported by TMOD K.T

Yokohama Toastmasters Club #587 regular meeting TMOD report

-Date: January 4th, 2014
-Venue: Seishonen-Ikusei-Center
-Thema: “What is your new year’s resoluteion?”
-Report

The 587 YTMC regular meeting was held on January 4th(Sunday), 2015.
We had 16 YTMC members, 1 other TMC member and 2 pure guests.
So the number of participants was 18, even though the day was the last Sunday of New Year’s Holidays.

I really appreciate so many people coming to our New Year’s meeting. We were able to enjoy three advanced speeches and a thoughtful workshop by our President and communicate with participants and laugh a lot like Hatsu-warai.
We Yokohama TMC started 2015 toastmastering successfully.
Hopefully, we would like to improve much more than before with a fresh motivation.

Toastmaster of the day

TM T.N

The 585 YTMC Meeting was held Dec. 6 at Seishounen Ikusei Center.
President TM A.T rapped the gavel and opened the meeting with

his remark on time.
We had one gest from other Toastmaster Club.
At the Joke session, I laughed lots and almost every member.
However, Joke Master seriously spoke about how Russian letters
came into being.

There were 4 prepared speakers.
After finishing each speech, I had one minute silence and asked menbers to write
some comments to the speaker.
One of them would participate in the Rookies Speech Tournament 2014 in Kanagawa
as our club representative.
Two speakers chose the same advanced manual “Speaking to Inform #2”,
and delivered wonderful speeches.

The meeting ran soothly and kept good time management.
At the very end, Toastmaster M.T gave out that he was going to move to Okayama
for his business. “Thank you very much, Mr. M.T for supporting our club”

Thank you very much, all role takers !!!
I think this meeting too was successful and fruitful.
President A.T adjourned the 585 meeting of Yokohama Toastmaster club on time.

—–
Members and guests who joined the last meeting,

Hello,
Thank you for joining our regular meeting.
I think, it became really fruitful meeting.
The meeting included one Ice Breaking speech, workshop about role of
Toastmasters’ regular meeting, and report of District 76 Conference.
Many contents were there, but meeting was adjourned at 4 o’clock.

TM K.R
—–