Minutes for the 195th Regular Meeting

Our 195th Meeting was held on February 24, 2018 at Kudan Lifelong Learning Hall.

Today‘s TMOM was TM KT.
Today‘s Word of the Day was announced by TM RY as “touching” in English and “kandou Saseru” in Japanese. He came up with the word when he was watching the PyeongChang Olympic on TV and moved with the athletes’ achievement.

As the “News of the Week”, TM TT talked about “PyeongChang Olympic 2018”. What he liked about was human connection and friendship built between athletes beyond the borders. And, it made him remind again the importance of our club’s activities with Toastmasters Clubs in Korea. He introduced to us the Japan-Korea Joint Meeting to be held in Tokyo soon. It will be a great opportunity to enjoy and build friendship with the Toastmasters members in Korea.

There were 2 prepared speeches.
First speech was made by TM GM with the title “Hadaka no Oosama”. It was a story telling of an old story “Hadaka no Oosama”, which was different from the usual speech. He made it enjoyable by using effective gestures, body languages, and voice varieties.

Second speech was made by TM HS with the title “The good reputation.” He talked that he has been working hard since his childhood, and he is still working hard even now at work, because he wanted good reputation. Now he realized that he didn’t become who he really was or wanted to be. He decided to quit.

Table Topics Session was conducted by TM MT.
The topics was the PyeonChnag Olympic. Assumed that she was an interviewer and the participants were a real athlete, her coach, brother, rival and best friend, she asked them about how they feel. The theme was timely fit, and it was interesting.

Evaluation session was led by General Evaluator TM SM. Today‘s evaluators for the prepared speeches were TM SW and TM KM.

The Awards were given to the following members;
TM HH for the Best Table Topics,
both TM SW and TM KM for the Best Evaluators, and
TM HS for the Best Speaker.

February 24, 2018, written by TM HH

コンテスタント選考会 (第194回例会 2018/2/10)

第194回例会はクラブからスピーチコンテストに進出するコンテスタント(コンテスト出場者)の選考会を開催しました。

日本語2名・英語2名がエリアコンテストに進出します!

また、選考会と並行して行われたテーブルトピックス(即興スピーチ)は、出題者を3名設定して、「良いスピーチを引き出した質問を作った出題者」を表彰する「テーブルトピックス良問コンペ」を併催。夢のある出題が多かったです。

ゲストも多く参加いただき、盛況の例会でした!

2018.2.13 S.W.