VENUE: Room 2, Sogo-Kenkyu Building, Kochi University
Atte Attendees: TM Shinomiya, TM Nagasaki, TM S.
Nagano, TM Hayashi, TM Tsuchihashi, TM Hashimoto, TM Adachi, TM Wong, TM
Kunisawa, TM Y. Nagano, TM Miyoshi, TM O’Dowd, TM Cooley, TM Sawada, TM
Kamisaka, TM Kumon and TM Tomonaga
Absentees: TM Rai, TM Machida and TM Kitaoka
-Call to Order by President:
TM S. Nagano congratulated TM Wong on successfully conpleting the Kochi Ryoma
Marathon. In addition, she informed the attendees that during this meeting the in-house speech contest would also be held.
Introduction of Guests: There were no guests.
Introduction of Guests: There were no guests.
-Greeting by Toastmaster: TM
Adachi, the TM of the meeting, greeted everyone present at the meeting. She
also explained that before having the Speech Contest, there would be a formal
speech session to let TM Kamisaka give her 5th speech.
-Word Master: None
-Grammarian and Ah- Counter: None
-General Evaluator: None
-Timers: TM Hayashi and TM
O`Dowd
-Table Topics Master: None
-Speech Evaluator: TM Tomonaga
-TM Hayashi and TM O`Dowd explained
the timing rules for TM Kamisaka`s speech.
-TM Kamisaka gave her 5th speech in
the CC Manual:
In her 5th speech from the CC Manual which
focused on body language entitled “Kochi my second home”, she talked about
coming to Kochi six years ago to study in university and how the experience
allowed her to learn many things. For example, the difficulties encountered
while living alone such as dealing with the NHK man and being unable to resist
the extremely delicious food from Kochi. She also talked about the best things
about coming to Kochi which were noticing an improvement in her English skills
as well as meeting and becoming friends with a slew of amazing people from all
over the world. Most importantly, Kochi has become her second home and she will
miss everyone who made her time there so special.
-Evaluation Session: Evaluator : TM Tomonaga
-In-House English Speech Contest:
-Roles of members:
TM Adachi and TM Kunisawa: Contest Chairs
TM Tsuchihashi: Gave Opening Address
TM Nagasaki: Chief Judge
TM Hashimoto, TM Tomonaga and TM Shinomiya:
Judges
TM Y. Nagano and TM Miyoshi: Tally Counters
TM Hayashi and TM O`Dowd: Timers
1. TM Sawada “Let`s enjoy Japanese home
cooking”, a speech talking about how difficult it is to actually cook authentic
Japanese home cooking.
2. TM Wong “What was I thinking”, a speech
about climbing a volcano in Chile called Villarica and what the experience
taught him.
3. TM Cooley “Half of what you see”, a speech
about the spread of fake news and how to combat it.
-Before announcing the winner, TM Nagasaki had
the members do an exchange talk session which involved a small brainstorm and
presentation session about topics relevant to becoming better Toastmasters.
-The winner of the In-House English Speech
Contest was TM Cooley. She received the first place certificate from TM S.
Nagano. TM Cooley will represent Kochi Toastmasters Club at the Area Contest in
March.
-At the end of the meeting, TM Kamisaka, who was attending her final meeting, thanked everyone for making her feel welcome at the club. She hopes that we will come visit her in Hiroshima in the future.
Business session:
TM Nagasaki suggested changing the day of the
meetings from the 4th Monday to the 4th Sunday of the month for spring
meetings. This will be discussed further and a decision will be made soon.
TM of the Meeting: TM Shinomiya
Table Topics: TM Kunisawa
General Evaluator: S. Nagano
Time: TM
Sawada
Ah Counter/Grammarian: TM O`Dowd
Speakers:
TM Adachi
TM Miyoshi
TM Tschuchihashi
Speech Evaluator: TM Wong
