The 596th meeting was held on May 23, 2015. This meeting is characterized by three features: Officers’ election, a report on District 76 contest and an invitation of a guest speaker.
The election is one of important annual event of our club, a kind of a ritual. After the ritual, I activated a regular meeting as a master of the meeting. In a warming up session, we had four table topic speakers who made a two-minute speech as well as a contest report on District 76 contest, whose champion will represent the district 76 for the international contest at Las Vegas in this summer. The reporter seemed to enjoy sophisticated speeches as well as a drinking party after the contest. Then, we had two 7-minute speeches and two 3-minute evaluation for the speakers. One of speeches was presented by a guest speaker from Nihonbashi century toastmasters club. He brought a fresh air to our club by his own speech style and his own point of view, which are slightly different from our club members, I think.
Honestly speaking I had no enough time to prepare for this meeting. But thank for member’s cooperation, I could successfully handle it. Thank you for all attendances especially the guest speaker, a mediator of a guest speaker, the election chair, and a member from Nagoya!
TM E.Y. wrote.

May 2nd was middle of Golden week.
Even middle of The Golden Week, we had lot of participants. Theme of meeting w
as “What to do in GW?”. Some member enjoy to wait for his younger son and ta
lk with him.
Someone was planning to go to hot spring near who was living. Another member p
lan to go to Nagano to stay in the nature.
Or plan to bake a cake for the mother’s birthday. Sounds were wonderful. Word
of the day was “ Verdant ”.
It was fit with this season.
Prepared speeches were ” Luncheon Party ” (Interpersonal Communication Project
) and
” Trip to Bahamas ” (Basic Manual) and
” Who is our leader ” (The Entertaining Speaker).
We really enjoyed interesting speeches and had fun.

On Apr.18th we had our 594th regular meeting in Seishonen Ikuseikaikan.
Despite very tight schedule and the situation of less participants,everyone accepted each role kindly. And thanks to them we could finish our meeting very successfully.

Today we have an Induction ceremony for new member,TM Y.H.
We were really glad to welcome our new member who has strong motivation.

In an educational session we had three speakers, TM M.F, TM R.K and TM Y.Y.
TM M.F achieved competent communication manual ＃10, first goal of Toastmasters program.congratulations!!!

TM R.K introduced a beer factory tour in his speech. By getting comments of audience members who had actually participated in this tour, he entertained us.

TM Y.Y challenged new project of Advanced manual, Humorously Speaking.She talked about her side trip, after going to visit her father in hospital, with a very funny story.
And in tips session,TM T.N introduced various access to Toastmasters information,both analog and digital. In order to catch vivid news, his introduction seemed very useful.
Thanks to positive effort and cooperation of every member,
we could break though much higher step.
TM T.S wrote

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

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

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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.
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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.