The word of evening “Procrastination” was presented by TM K, means the thief of time.
The usage is difficult but how smart of Table Topic TM W is, who put this word in topic to practice gave audience more understanding of this word.
Prepare speech started from TM A, his speech title was “The moment I feel happy”.
He talked about how he spent time in elementary school with his friend-Shoma and Shoma’s mother also teat him nice at his childhood. The turning point was when he prepared the exam of junior high school, friends around him suddenly keep distance from him, however, Shoma gave him warm friendship without any change. It healed his loneliness and also let him realized how important to contribute something to someone when they are at difficult time or feel down. Because give kindness to someone at right time is the most happy moment he can feel.
Second speaker is TM G, his speech title was “Thursday nights in Afghanistan”.
He talked the county image in the world we have is always from news, media manipulating or stereotypes, he gave example the before and after of his experience with Japan, since he lives in Japan, he found all of the external information he got partly is true but not all. However, Japanese culture around him do reflex to his thinking and life, that is true experience. Under the restriction of going foreign country, to learn a country might be limited by news or media, so he encouraged us to learn a country by research yourself. That is why he start his journey of learning foreign country from January of 2022. His first research project is Afghanistan, then he shared us some significant points he learned about Afghanistan. The most impressive part he found is in this poor country people hold Poetry party in every Thursday night.
Thursday night is “poetry night”, men, women and children gather to share poetry. That is real life he learned from.
Maybe we should follow TM G to start a study journey from now on?! Third speaker is TM U, who practiced his humor contest speech “共感ファスト“。 Then we are asked to give opinions for his performance.
TM G. won Best Speaker, TM S. Best Evaluator and TM S. Best Table Topics Speaker.
Congratulations!