-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.

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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
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Pleasant Experience

I found a great thing that Toastmaster of the Day is the best way to enjoy each member’s speech.

Since I took a forward seat in the room than other audience, I could savor each speech more deeply.

After accepting to be TMOD, I deeply regretted my “Yes”.
Being a poor PC user, it seemed difficult for me to write the agenda and send it to members. However TM S’ s great support, I could accomplish my role.
I enjoyed everything.

TM N

YTMC #582 Regular Meeting on Oct.18th　Meeting Report by Kahori Takanashi
The YTMC #582 meeting was held on Oct 18th at Free-Flat-Nogeyama with 17 members and 2 guests.
I (TM K.T) enjoyed doing TMOD role today!!
The meeting started with opening remark by our President TM Taketomi.
During Business session, he informed the result of In-House Contest and Area 42 Contest.
After that, TM M.H accepted to take a vacant role, which was Word of the Day and Gracho role as volunteer. Thank you for your kind support!
Today’s Word of The Day represented by TM M.H was ‘wonderful’. I really liked this word!
Timers were our new member TM Y.S and M.Y and Vote Counter was also our new member, TM W.Y.
Even though, it was a very first time and first role for them, they did their job very well!

Today’s Tips Master was TM S.I. He introduced one interesting article from Toastmaster magazine September Edition. And also, he encouraged our members to read the magazine.
Today’s Joke Master was TM T.N and he challenged to introduce some American Joke.
Some of them were difficult to understand for our Japanese. It means the point of Laugh is very different by each country.

Table Topic Session was conducted by TM T.T. She gave us very unique and seasonal questions such as autumn and sports. We enjoyed her questions and listening to the answers of Topic masters.

Today, there are 3 Speakers and 1st speaker was our new member TM M.O. She did a great job as Ice Breaker!! During her speech, she introduced the background of her life in China and Japan and her future vision etc.
Congratulation to complete her very first speech as TM!
Second Speaker, TM R.K made a speech about his experiences in Special Committee on Disasters in his company.
There were many useful information and messages his speech.
Last speaker was TM S.I. The title ‘I love Whisky’ and he started with his body language by drinking Whisky. We all laughed and enjoyed his humorous and unique speech very much. We also learned the history of Japanese Whisky which nobody knew. I felt that Japanese Whisky has very interesting and dramatic history in the past.

We had a special Work Shop session by TM T.S. He made a presentation about how to resolve the conflict with using Power Point slides. The visual aid was very supported and easy to understand his message.

Today’s General Evaluator was our President TM A.T and at the beginning of GE Session, he informed us that the evaluation is the most important part of toastmaster’s activities. With evaluation, we can know what we need to improve, what is our given strength and characters.
3 evaluators (TM M.T, TM T.S, TM N.S) made wonderful evaluation for each speakers according to the manual.
Especially, the evaluation for CC#1 Ice Break Speech is very difficult in a way but TM M.T, he did great job!

TMOD(I, TM K.T) conducted the award session.
Best T.Topic Speaker was TM W.Y, Best Evaluator was TM T.S and Best Speaker was TM M.O.
Best T.Topic Speaker was TM W.Y and Best Speaker was TM M.O.are very new member!! Congratulation!

During the meeting, many members use ‘Word of the day’, ‘Wonderful’ !! The word made us feel happy!
All role takers thank you so much for all your great support!! I really appreciate your kindness.

I believed that not only TM members but also 2 guests enjoyed today’s meeting.
Please come and join our meeting next time. Thank you!!

By TMOD, TM K.T

Thank all YTMC members, for giving me an opportunity of TMOD.
It was my first experience of particular role.
I try to help this to business.

TM M.T

It was my first time to take a Contest Chair in TM activities.
I have been joining the contest as a contestant for 3 years. Then I focused on making my speech and enjoyed giving the speech to members.
However I had to manage YTMC In-house Contest at this time. My priority was to collect many contestants. And I needed to create the stage that contestants give each speech with a good feeling. I felt that I gave my speech comfortably because Contest Chair created the stage for me.
As a result there were 10 contestants in English and Japanese Contest!! I thought our In-house Contest in2014 was successful. But success couldn’t come without member’s cooperation! I really appreciated all members, and all contestants! Thank you very much!
Lastly I announce prize winners of our In-house contest in2014 at both contests!!

English
1st TM Y.T
2nd TM Y.N
3rd TM T.S

Japanese
1st TM K.T
2nd TM N.S

TM A.T

The YTMC #579 Meeting was held close to Nogeyama Park at the Seishonen Kouryu Centre. It was a hot day and summer was back with a last weekend of hot weather. To my delight and maybe because we had a huge venue reserved, almost 30 people were able to make it and enjoy my first TMOD session. However I believe they were really coming for the Speech Marathon and especially for TM Y’s presentation on the “Road to DTM”.

The schedule was tight so we omitted a theme for this meeting. The word of the day ultimate was used well throughout ultimately enhancing the atmosphere of the meeting. We managed to keep the time fairly well giving us the opportunity to hear 4 Table Topic Speakers give wonderful short speeches. This was followed by quickly moving into the Speech Sessions containing 6 Speeches with a wide variety of topics. First we were introduced to one of our recent new members via her Icebreaker Speech, then we moved to the beauty of Himeji Castle before taking a turn towards the Humorous side with speeches about Unusual Signboards, Primate Humor and great information about the Fall Speech Contest!

After a very brief intermission, it was our treat to have TM T.Y present his experiences/expertise on “The Road to DTM”. He broke us into workgroups and gave us questions to present later. Each group could quickly list down answers and present to the greater audience. TM T.Ythen elaborated on the answers given and gave a great overview on the baby steps required to reach the final goal of DTM. Thank you TM T.Yfor your presentation.

We wrapped up the meeting with a quick Evaluation Session and our President/VPE reminded everyone of the upcoming Fall In-House Humorous Speech Contest. It was a great first experience as a TMOD and I look forward to doing it again, this time with a theme!
Thank you!

TM M.F