Meeting Location: Ningyo-cho Kuminkan
Reporter: TM N.W
1. Introduction
Call to order, by TM P.P. He mentioned that Feb 11th was a national holiday, but thanks to warm support, many participated today's meeting.
TMOE was TM N.W., first time role. He said today's theme was "Table Topic Speech", and introduce special work session by P.M. from Shibuya-TMC.
TM M.K. chose "Chance" as Word of the evening.
2. Prepared Speech
"Let's ask" (CC#1) by TM Y. F:
He asked about himself, and introduced 4 stories with beautiful picture.
- Childhood: born in Himeji.
- Coming to Tokyo in University Time. Doing various activities, and found his philosophy that "never make anything alone"
- Starting work. Join an Advertising Agency, and created TV commercial. After that he changed job, and tried to become comic writer, he worked as radio director, and now writing how to book.
- Ice Breaking Speech in TT.
"We must lose" (CC#2) by TM N.M.:
To gain anything, we must lose others. After he broke heart, he gave up watching TV for 10 years. By doing so, he could get time, money, correct information, and he was pursing his dream to become English teacher.
"Do it now" (AC PJ#5) by TM Y.S. .
She experienced hairbreadth experience in University. Due to double booking by Travel Agency, she choose one Airline, the other airline was crushed. We never know what happened in the future, so when you'd like to do something, do it now.
"Be prepared for fateful encounter"(AC PJ#3) by TM S.N:
Many people said, "I have no wonderful encounter in daily life". But she said there should be many wonderful encounters and chances in daily life, based of her experience. She could meet good-looking guy in train after heavy drinking party, chat with good-looking guy in airplane when she was terrible sweat, and helped by nice guy and got water in bathroom on Mt. Fuji when she was terrible feeling. Since there should be many chances, we should keep trying!!
→Best Prepared Speech: S.N.
3. Evaluation Session
- For TM Y.F. by TM K.N.
- For TM N.M. by TM P.P.
- For TM Y.S. by TM M.Y.
- For TM S.N. by TM M.S.
Best evaluator: TM M.S.
4. Table Topic (TM D.A)
Advise to Kiyohara (by guest T.I).
He advised to Kiyohara, trusting family and play baseball, as he is still Superstar.
If you have time-machine, which era do you want to go and what will you do? (by TM N.W.)
TM N.W. hoped to go back to high-school time, as he was really lazy at that time, so he'd like to say to himself that he should challenge more.
Imagine the meaning of Syzygy (by TM Y.K).
TM Y.K. guessed that Syzygy※ means something related to sleep due to its sound.
※True meaning is that the situation that Sun, Earth, and Moon aligned.
The best TT was TM N.W.
5. Special Work Session about "Table Topic" by TM P.M..
- Writing memory bank, and stock various stories.
- During meeting, we focus on key word, and predict the question of Table Topic masters. If you come up idea, you should stick to and go with this idea.
- Organize speech for PREP(Point Reason Example, and Point)
- Flip the question when you are not familiar with questions.