2/12に多摩川で開催された、駅伝パーティーにVTMCとして参加してきましたので、当日の様子を報告します。

参加するきっかけは、東京メトロポリタントーストマスターズクラブ（http://www.tokyo-metropolitan.org/）に例会にゲスト参加したTM K-taがVisionaries Toast Masters Club (VTMC)でも出てみないか？と提案したのがきっかけです。

VTMCからの参加者は、企画者のTM K-ta、TM M-chi、TM P-la, TM Y-ra、TM T-chi、TM K-shiの6人。

1チーム4人のため、友人をさそって何とか、VTMCから2チーム参加しました。







東京メトロポリタントーストマスターズを中心に、参加者の輪が広がり、当日はなんと40名近くのToasｔmasters関係者が集まる駅伝大会に！

Toastmasters内で、Best Runners（タイムが速いチームが受賞）、Best Cheers（もっとも応援が良かったチーム）、Best Costume、Best 襷など、レース以外にも楽しめる要素が。

なんと、VTMCはTM M-chiが豪華な襷＋帽子を作ってくださり、Best 襷を受賞！！
こちらが、その襷と帽子の写真。美しいです！
レース後は近くの温泉で疲れを癒し、二次会へ。

企画して下さった東京メトロポリタントーストマスターズクラブに感謝です。

39^th regular meeting of the Visionaries Toastmasters Club (VTMC) held successfully on 21^st January 2012 at Nakahara Shiminkan meeting room. Three guests were present.

The word of the evening, “marvelous”, was introduced by TM G-to and it was used frequently by the speakers as well as other role takers. TM Pe-la took control of the meeting as the TMOE (toastmaster of the evening) while TM T-chi, TM Da-na, TM Ma-da and TM Mu-ma performed the helping roles of timer, grammarian, ‘ah’ counter and vote counter respectively.

The role of joke master made its return after a long silence and TM Mi-chi did a wonderful job entertaining the audience using dual-meaning words.

The table topics session was conducted by TM M-ri and his preparation and effort were clearly visible from the five interesting questions TM M-ri asked from speakers. After each speech TM M-ri did not forget to add TM M-ri’is own comments to the questions asked, which enabled two way communication.

The meeting brightened up with four prepared speeches.

The first speaker, TM Ma-da, gave a speech, titled “English, without preference”, completing project #3 of New Basic Manual. TM Ma-da expressed his view on the role English plays in the current day today life, and in especially on his life events.

The second prepared speech was given by TM Mi-ta. TM Mi-ta finished project #4 of New basic Manual with the speech title “a coin”. It was an interesting speech, which described the origin of the five yen coin and how it blended with the Japanese society.

TM Ya-ra, as the third speaker, gave an exciting speech about one of the characters TM Ya-ra admires. TM Ya-ra’s speech title was “the adventures of Yaiya” and it focused on the objectives of project #5 of New Basic Manual.

With the speech title, “long seeking”, TM Ma-to, the fourth speaker, shared the story about a movie TM Ma-to watched recently. TM Ma-to completed project #6 of New Basic Manual.

The speeches were very well prepared and it was a wonderful opportunity for the audience to listen to very good speeches.

 

After intermission, TM Ka-ta conducted the evaluation session. The four speeches were evaluated by TM Ko-shi, TM Dr-n, TM O-mi and Mo-to respectively. All four evaluations reflected their personalized opinions, while critically assessing the speeches according to the project objectives. After the reports from the grammarian and the ah counter TM Ka-ta gave a wonderful general evaluation about the overall setting of the meeting.

Awards presentation

The best table topics winner: TM I-ki

The best evaluation winner: TM Dr-n

The best speakers: TM Ya-ra and TM Mi-ta

All in all it was a fantastic meeting, where everyone did a very good job. All the role takers were present, which made life easy for the TMOE. It was nice to see that the prepared speeches covered four different aspects of the New Basic Manual. As the TMOE I would like express my sincere gratitude to everyone who joined hands for making the meeting a success.

Visionaries Toastmasters Club (VTMC) the 38th regular meeting was successfully held at Nakahara Shiminkan on Jan 7, 2012 with 3 guests.

 

With the celebration of New Year, we had an Induction Ceremony for TM Y_gi.

It was a begin omen for our club!

 

President TM I_ki’s strong and vigorous greetings encouraged all attendants to make sure that this meeting would be very successful.

TM K-ta introduced “Relish” as the word of evening, then TM M-chi started to control the meeting as TMOE (ToastMaster of the Evening) with her hope of that the dragon year will become fruitful for every member.

She introduced three helpers, Timer- TM M-ta, Grammarian TM M-ma, Votecounter TM M-da, and Ah-counter TM O-mi.

At First, TM M-ri performed as Thought of the Evening.

Next, Table Topic session started. The Topicmaster, TM N-ta well controlled Table Topic session with 4 interesting questions; Memories of Otoshidama by TM M-ma (1:42), Favorite New Year Food by TM M-ta (1:41), Childhood memory about new year by TM M-da (2:10), and Shrine and Temple by TM Y-gi (2:29)  

 

We had four prepared speeches;

Speech #1      “ New Year’s Resolutions ”   TM U-no  (Time:5;50) New Basic Manual Project 1 “The Ice Breaker”      

Speaker #2:   “Kangaroos Don't Bite”    TM L-gue  (Time:6;04) Advanced Manual 'Story Telling'. Project #3 The Moral of the Story

Speaker #3     "Why I run”   TM K-shi (Time:7;29) New Basic Manual Project 5 “Your Body Speaks” 

Speaker #4:  “For the Others”          TM  J-ra (Time:7;52)  New Basic Manual Project 4 “How to say it”        

All speeches were well organized and the audiences relished them.

 

After intermission, the evaluation session was conducted by General Evaluator, TM M-da.

Evaluation 1 was TM Y-to (Time:3;54), Evaluation 2 TM I-ki  (Time:3;23) Evaluation 3 TM M-wa  (Time:2;42) and Evaluation 4 TM M-to (Time:3;43)

Each evaluator gave their comments with positive and encouraging ways.

Award Presentation:

   The best table topics winner: TM M-ta

   The best evaluation winner: TM M-wa

   The best speech winner: TM L-gue and TM U-no

 

The meeting was closed with the cheerful atmosphere as always.

“Happy New Year!”

Thank you for attendance of many guests.

 

Visionaries Toastmasters Club (VTMC) the 37th regular meeting was successfully held at Techno Kawasaki on December 17, 2011 with one guest. The meeting started with a induction of Mr.M-da.

TM Yama-to introduced "exhilarate” as word of the evening, then TM Na-ta started to control the meeting as TMOE (Toast Master of the Evening) for the first time.

After introduction of each role, TM Kawa-ta gave “Thought of the evening” speech.

Next, table topic session started. Table Topics are a code meaning impromptu speech. The moderator, TM Pesh-ra, gave each speaker about Crsitmas related topics. Speakers were  TM Ma-da, TM D-an, TM Ma-to and TM Ko-shi.

 

There were four prepared speeches,

1) The first speaker was TM D-an, “Bliss is Timeless”.  
2) The second speaker was TM G-to, “Attractiveness of Rugby"    
3) The third speaker was TM M-to, “Welcome to the power spot”    

4) The forth speaker was TM Ya-ra “Pay the price”

After intermission, the evaluation session was conducted by TM I-shi

Evaluators were TM M-da, TM M-i, and TM K-ta and TM M-ma. Each evaluator gave his /her personalized opinion, positive and having fair and balanced criticism.

Most of speakers and evaluators made effective time management.

(Photo from Meeting)

The last session was Award Presentation .

The best Table Topics winner: TM D-an.

The best Evaluator winner: TM M-da.

The best Speaker winner: TM Y-ra

Winners and TMOE! Congrats!

TM Ko-shi,TM-Ma-to amd TM K-shi, thanks for taking a role as a  Vote counter,Timer and Grammarian, and Ah Counter.

After the enjoyable and productive meeting, many members went to the last 2^nd Party of the year and had fun time.

Photo from 2nd Special Party.

例会情報の更新が滞ってしまい、失礼しました。

例会も着々と進み、1/7には2012年最初の例会が開催されました。（新規入会：1名、見学者：2名！）

近日中に溜まっている例会レポートをアップしていきますので、お楽しみください。

次回、例会は1/21です！英語でのパブリックスピーキング、プレゼンテーションに興味ある方はお気軽に問い合わせください！