On june 20th We had our 598th regular meeting.

We had a special event, New officer’s Installation.Therefore the day was the last day to hear the previous President TM T’s “Call to Order”.

The Installation Ceremony Chair was Area 42 Governor TM K. He expressed gratitude for the previous officers, and introduced new officers.The Previous President TM T and The New President TM N had 3 minutes speeches.

After that, We started a regular meeting.The word of the day was”Capability”.TM H challenged Tips session, and he had a great speech even though it was the first time for him to take the role,and he hadn’t received the magazine yet.TM F’s Topic master session entertained us like a show. At the Prepared speech session, TM T spoke about her way to celebrate the Mother’s day and the Father’s day. In addition, she released a special happy news.TM S redo TM K’s speech which TM K had delivered it last year. It was about the man who established the first beer factory in Japan. We felt drawn to his story.

After a short break, We had a Evaluation Session, and Award Presentation. In that day, we could vote only for the Best Table Topic speaker, because there are only two speeches, and TM S got the Best Table Topic speaker Award. We finished our meeting with Next New President TM N’s “Adjournment”.

It was the first time for me to take the TMOD role, and I noticed every meetings were composed of lots of members’s supports. I greatly appreciated all members who supported the meeting, and all attendants for their cooperation.

TM Y wrote

On June 6^th we had our 597^th regular meeting.

We had many attendants, including 2 guests from other Toastmasters Clubs.

The schedule was rather tight, but we could finish it successfully, almost on time.

As it was the first meeting in June, theme of the meeting was “ Rainy season is coming”.

In Table Topic Session,　TM Y.T gave us questions related to the meeting theme, as she talks along the story. It was certainly a fresh way of conducting the session.

In educational session, we had 3 speakers. TM W.Y‘s speech “Struggle with R and L” was about how she tried to overcome her difficulty in pronunciation. TM Y.H tried his ice breaking speech, “My Nicknames”. From TM A.I’s speech “Hubble’s Apprentice”, we learned interesting yet not so common story.

We also had TM H.A’s workshop “Enjoy working with Your Team!”. Through the workshop we found out that each of us belong to several kinds of teams, and learned many tips how we could get along well with other team members.

It was my first time to take the TMOD role, but I could manage to wrap up the meeting without any issue. I would like to thank all attendants for their cooperation．

TM A.S wrote

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!!