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Minutes ＃343　Minutes 2024/October/5 Introduction Today’s meeting was hybrid style. We had one guest from another toastmasters club. Today’s icebreaker was as usual: Sharing about good or bad things happened in the past weeks. Today’s Word of the evening was “eloquent”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM S.K. Today’s table topic session was interesting and relevant to the current political scenario of Japan. What should the new PM take on measures on environmental issues? How the new PM take measures to protect the economy? etc Speech Session Today we had one speaker. TM T.M. spoke about “Introducing my [...]

Minutes ＃342　Minutes 2024/September/21 Introduction Today’s meeting was hybrid style. We had 2 guests today. At the Ice Break session, we shared our recent news. Word of the Evening was “in my eyes”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM H.S. He asked Chat GPT to make questions related to reading in autumn. Chat GPT worked well and we answered the questions, such as recommended book, influence of autumn for reading, and so on. Speech Session Today we had one speaker. The title of TM A.M.’s speech was “world of changes”. She told about her experience in making a decision with different background person. [...]

Minutes ＃341　Minutes 2024/September/07 Introduction Today’s meeting was online (zoom) We had 2 guests today. Today's meeting was the last meeting of our veteran TM Y.T. President TM Y.T. wanted to keep the ice breaking session simple by fellow toast masters as well as the guests shared good or bad things happened in the past 2 weeks. Word of the Evening was “invigorate”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM W.M. Today’s table topic main theme was about choosing one thing from given choices like will you choose science or history and why you choose. The questions are  seems difficult but it was [...]

Minutes ＃340　Minutes 2024/August/24 Introduction Today’s meeting was zoom style. We had no guest. At the ice-breaking session, we shared about our recent news. Many members enjoyed summer vacations, but some members could not have off days. Today’s Word of the evening was “intend/intention”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM Y.T. She prepared the questions by using Chat GPT. The questions were about someone who has passed away that you would like to meet, the household chores that you can be proud to do, the recommendable thing you did in the summer, and so on. We enjoyed answering [...]

Minutes ＃339　Minutes 2024/August/3 Introduction Today’s meeting was hybrid style. We had one guest, area director of E-3 area, today. At the ice-breaking session, we shared about our recent news. Today’s Word of the evening was “surge”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM S.K. Since the Olympic Games are now being held in Paris, the questions were related to the Olympic Games. Questions were about favorite sports, commercialization of Olympic, politics and Olympic, and so on. We enjoyed answering questions. Speech Session Today, TM A.M. talked about “Serious Match”. He shared his experience that serious match attracted the [...]

Minutes ＃338　Minutes 2024/July/20 Introduction Today’s meeting was zoom style. We had only 4 regular members and one guest today. At the ice-breaking session, we shared about our recent lives. Today’s Word of the evening was “I’m not going to lie,---”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM T.M. Surprisingly, TM T.M. had prepared 365 questions by using IT. We enjoyed answering these questions, such as the activities that make you lose track of time, something that makes you smile, etc. Since the number of people was small, the atmosphere was relaxed. Speech Session Today we had one speaker. [...]

Minutes ＃337　Minutes 2024/July/6 Introduction Today’s meeting was online (zoom) We had 2 guest today. This is the first meeting of the new term and new president TM.Y.T.wanted to keep the ice breaking session simple by toast masters as well as the guest shared  good or bad things happenin past 3 weeks. Today's word of the evening was succinct Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM Y.T. Today's  table topic main theme was about the year 2024 already six months has passed so first 3 questions were how is your experience in last 6 months your new year resolution and best event happened. [...]

Minutes ＃336　Minutes 2024/June/15 Introduction Today’s meeting was zoom style. We had one guest here today. We had an ice-breaking session at the beginning of the meeting. TM S.K. introduced the topic of expressing gratitude. Then we shared our experiences about it. Today’s Word of the evening was “in a nutshell”. New Officers Installation Ceremony We had a New Officers Installation Ceremony for the next Toast Masters term by President TM S.K. Each new officer member declared that they would do their best. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM H.S. His table topics were about songs and music. [...]

Minutes ＃335　Minutes 2024/June/1 Introduction Today’s meeting was hybrid style. We had no guest today. Since we had Officer Election today, ice-breaking session was skipped. Today’s Word of the evening was “mind-blowing”. Officer Election New officers were elected for the next term beginning in July. Each candidates shared their enthusiasm in a two-minute speech. All seven candidates were approved as the new officer members. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM Y.T. She introduced this year’s Senryu and asked the question related to it. If you need to quit something luxurious in your current life, what is it? Whose [...]

Minutes ＃334　Minutes 2024/May/18 Introduction Today’s meeting was hybrid style. We had one guest today. We had an ice-breaking session at the beginning of the meeting and shared each GW memories. We each introduced what we enjoyed, such as going clam digging, camping, and so on. Today’s Word of the evening was “be on cloud nine”. Table Topic Session Today’s table topic master was TM T.M. His table topics were related to the recent AI news. Each table topic speaker enjoyed answering. Speech Session Today we had one speaker. TM A.M. introduced herself with the title “Let’s start again”. She told [...]