Joint Christmas party of Tokai and Sakae club was held on December 22nd.　The party started with the table topic session chaired by two table topic masters from Tokai and Sakae club. This session provided us very funny and interesting topics related to Christmas and made all attendants excited. At the same time, in this special event, topic masters and presenters in this session did very good performance for promoting communication!
In the game session, three games named “Christmas, Christmas, what do you know?”, “Let’s sing”, and “Line Dance” were introduced by TM T, TM O, and TM E. These games were a lot of fun and the attendants got really excited.
Potluck, gift exchange session and “Cat and Chocolate session” hosted by Sakae Club followed the game session.
I attended this Toastmasters Club’s Christmas party for the first time and it was a kind of “mystery tour” for me. But the party was a lot of fun and it gave me a good stimulation for improving communication and presentation skills! T.M.

“Unite”, “Participation”, “Warm” and “Friendship” might be the terms that best represent today’s meeting. TM T, TMOE, kicked off the meeting with a 10 second self-introduction by all attendees, including four visitors, in a round-table format, which made the room warm up though the wind was cold outside. In the table topic session, TM K, table topic master, threw questions regarding experience and practices of winter season. TM A connected the Kotatsu story with her family and TM GL, a visitor from NUSS TMC, discussed warm soup experience by contrasting Japan and Singapore. They both received most votes to be the best table topic speakers. Today’s word was “Vocation” not “Vacation” that was share by TM I. In the prepared speech session, three speakers made remarkable speeches. TM N encouraged people to listen to their inner voice especially when having difficulties. TM S emphasized the importance of having conversation among people based on her experience of learning a few Asian languages. TM M reemphasized the benefit of taking the TMOE role for new members to quickly learn the meeting roles. Lastly, TM M made a farewell speech by appreciating the experience and friendship that he had received as a member of Tokai Club over the past five years. After the group photo, TM President adjourned the meeting. FM

The title of the speech delivered by TM T was ”Let’s just do it!-How to work efficiently’ The visual and integrated speech persuaded the audience to avoid procrastinating at work. Indeed efficiency in our work will be applicable our lives.
On the other hand, I have an announcement. Our Christmas party will be held on December 22, at 6:00 pm in Nadia Park 6F. You may bring guests. We will exchange gifts the budget is around 500yen.

TMOD (Toastmaster of the Day) of the meeting was TM A. He is well-experienced TM, and he performed TMOD in very confident manner. The number of attendee was 19 people. Word Master TM T showed us "intense" as today's word. The word "intense" is useful and important. Table Topics Master TM S used five topics. Five topics were miscellaneous. Five TM's table topics speeches were unique and interesting. One of the speakers was me TM S. In Prepared Speech Session, two speakers TM H and TM M performed their well prepared speech. TM H has already started her PATHWAYS. (PATHWAYS is a new program of Toastmasters from this year.) TM M is still in traditional program Advanced Communication Series Manuals. I am also in traditional program. I wonder when I can start PATHWAYS. M.S.

Beautifully handled by the well experienced toast master, TM “S” as TMOE, the meeting on Oct-13th was great success. The keyword presented by Word master, TM “N”, was “to be conscious of”. One of the examples he introduced was “She was not conscious of being laughed at.” This kind of memorable sentence always helps the members understand the meaning and remember to use it during the meeting. Table Topic was very unique, challenging but extremely fun! The theme was “Planning for long vacation”. The way TM “E” handled the session was very unique. Preparing 2 files, she asked us to take 1 sheet each from them. One file has the budgets while the other has the transportations. Some member made a speech about how to spend the vacation with a fire balloon as transportation and 100RMB(1,650 yen) as budget while another did it with a plane and 100,000 Euro(12,900,000 yen). As for Prepared Speech session, since both two speakers are the contestants of Humorous Speech Tournament, only popcorn time was arranged for them instead. It is always great to see the scene where the speakers sincerely listen to the advice and try to improve their speeches while all the other members willingly give their straightforward opinions with great caring attitude. I believe this is what Toast Master’s activity is all about. T.G.

Today’s meeting was in-house contest for Area 62 humorous speech championship and all contestants delivered very high level and hot, humorous speech. Japanese session started with Mr. Y’s powerful speech titled “Rule of love without a code” which featured the episode about one of his unique ex-senior workers and made everyone laugh. Ms. S made speech from her memory on summer camp with children and delivered funny and still warm speech. In English session, Ms. T brought her valuable experience in exotic world and Mr. T delivered speech about his “sweet and blind” love episode in humorous and powerful way and pumped up the event. All speech were wonderful and I was really impressed. And today, English Rakugo performer Mr. K attended this meeting as special and “appropriate”  guest for humorous speech championship. I was very surprised and thrilled to see him in the meeting because I had an opportunity to enjoy his English Ralugo for the first time just last month! I enjoyed his English Rakugo very much then. Not only delivering excellent table top speech and winning the best table speech award, he gave wonderful comments in the award session and cheered up all members there. Members selected in today’s in-house champion ship will attend area contest which is held next month. Good luck! T.M.

In the Prepared Speech Session there were four speeches. 1st speech, TM.S, the speech title was 「Just live well, just live」. It was the word that the hero utter at the end of the movie "Me before You".(世界一キライなあなたに）The composition of the speech was very good, we felt we saw a movie by a few minutes' speech. 2nd, TM.E, the title was 「Parenting lessons given by Peppa Pig」. She tried expressing three people (animals) by using a stuffed doll of Peppa Pig, hair band, glasses etc, and changing her voice quality and volume. And it was a perfectly success. It was a warm speech we felt a deep love for child. 3rd, TM.K, the title was 「Trail "Cross Fit"」. It was a speech with an easy-to-understand introduction on what to do to make a healthy body. Using slides, express the importance of the exercise in a pyramidal arrangement. It was devised to visually understand our understanding. 4th, TM.M, the title was 「Why English? Why Toastmasters ?」. When he was a student, he didn't like English, but now there is superiority to be able to speak English. The speeh composition of "begining", "body", "conclusion" was very good. So, Let's enjoy English conversation with Toastmasters! Y.I.

feedback to his/herself with finding the speaker’s good points and improvements.

The second, T-san held the special event to share the tip and improve our English speech, the title is "My tips for English speech”. It was shown as for example to confirm the speech grammar that information technology is recently well developed and the software of checking speech grammar is easy to use. Also, several persons present the tips of reading good books or website described in English.
Finally, the guest comment was very much to the point. it is “Practice”. Fortunately, Tokai Toastmasters Club has many chances to practice the communication skill; to deliver the speech with giving feedback and training how to do suitable feedback. H.K.

Hot, hot summer! Tokai club’s meeting was held in Nagoya, one of the hottest area in Japan. In the table topic session, E-san gave us topics regarding Olympic. Y-san got the best speaker by introducing the best places where we would like to invite foreigners in Tokyo. In prepared speech, M-san shared his experiences making a good communication with his daughter through cooking. We totally understood that his daughter will be a good Toastmaster with perfect evaluation skills! A.I.

The meeting was held on the 9th floor in the　building,　and　full-packed　thanks　to　many　attendees.　The table topic part was exciting because speakers had to make impromptu speech to promote the specific object (EX. Dial-pink-pay-phone! How do you explain and appeal this for increase business profit?) Three speakers had done funny and persuasive speech on the spot, so all members and guests applauded to their efforts. In addition, two prepared speakers delivered enthusiastic and informative speech, and evaluators gave them proper feedback later. This process was very systematic to improve not only speech skills but also scaffolding skills. Fortunately, Tokai Toast Masters club is thriving by getting lots of attention from this homepage viewers and always welcome you to visit us! Our passion in this club is as hot as the weather in Tokai area. Next meeting on July 28th will be super special one! Hope to see many members and guests on the meeting! Y.T.

Ms.A presented a conversational speech with Mr.G. She demonstrated as a member of a board of education(Ms.A) giving her feedback to a teacher(Mr.G). Her calm attitude and concrete advice were amazing! The popcorn time(comment time) and evaluation session were productive with many questions and positive comments.  Term changing ceremonies peacefully closed the term (Jul.2017-Jun.2018) and lively introduced the new officers' team.                      C.K. & K.M.

 inflection, and speech compositions. Especially, Mr. Y's speech taught me the importance of facial expressions by his speech with a smile, which made the room atmosphere much brighter.               S.Y.

先日の春季大会にコンテスタントとして出場したYさんから、お礼のスピーチを頂きました。彼は一貫して、支えてくれたメンバーへの感謝の気持ちを言葉にしていました。皆が論評してくれたことによって、自分のスピーチが格段にレベルが上がった、そして皆さんの論評力も上がったのではないか、と仰っていました 。　　　　 　           N.S.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　        　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

We start Toastmasters, because we all have a sense of inferiority with  English or public speaking. Even our president who is one of the most skilled speakers used to have fear and stress. Everyone starts as a beginner, and by putting effort into improving ourselves, we will be able to overcome our shortcomings.  Fortunately, our president's Toastmaster history encouraged one of the visitors and actually pushed her to want to become a member of our club!  Thank you very much our president and welcome, Ms. H!                                                            Y.N.  

Competent communicator manual Project 5 objectives are to use stance, movement, gestures, facial expressions, and eye contact to express your message to achieve  speech purpose. Ms. E's thoughtful preparation to portray her daily responsibility of rearing new born was successful in an entertaining manner!  

Pathways program allows you to  choose one path out of ten, depending on your developmental necessities. Our new member Ms. L strongly started off her ice breaking speech with full of assertiveness and friendliness. Congratulations! Look forward to her next one.

このクラブの良いところは、全員笑顔でゲストを迎える温かい雰囲気。

心からの皆さんの正直な感想が飛び交ったり、改善点を出しあったり、スピーチの中の1つ1つの言葉やジャスチャ―、立ち位置まで、スピーカーと聴衆の合点のいく落としどころについて、建設的な発言が自由にできる中で、聞いているだけで勉強になりました。（Area62 Directorより）

後半は、エリアコンテストに進出する4名がリハーサルをし出席者からの熱いアドバイスや批評を受けました。セリフの改訂やジェスチャー、服装の見直しを含む、細かな技術を練り直し、メッセージの肝をいかに伝えるか再検討する時間を取りました。見学者の方は、「英語」でウェブ検索して観に来たが、単に話すだけでなくパフォーマンスに近く、部屋中にみなぎる熱意に刺激を受けたと話してくれました。毎回複数の見学の方が最後まで観ていって下さり、入会率も90%以上、感謝です！

入賞者の皆さんおめでとうございます！