I visited Tozai TMC again. We had 5 members to join in the meeting. TM Ishizuka and TM Tezuka are both familiar faces in Tozai TMC and I was happy to see them again. TM Morise and TM Tashiro joined consecutively. The meeting started at 19:15pm with relaxed and warm atmosphere with the note by President Morise. TMOE was TM Ishizuka and she smoothly started conducting the meeting by assigning the role takers. We had two table topic sessions and 1 pair of prepared speaker & evaluator.
The first role was the quote of the day by TM Morise with "Once you're lucky. Twice you're good." The first attainment is usually a beginner's luck but if you could repeat it, you are good, indeed." He shared interesting perspective.
TM Ishizuka was the table topic master as well and she gave us good topics.
The first topic was "What is your plan this summer?" and TM Morise shared his trip to Egypt. And the same question went to TM Tezuka and she shared her trip to Fukuoka with salsa friends. The second topic was "how to increase the membership?" and I shared a couple of idea to promote club activities including hybrid meeting with online and offline. The same question went to TM Tashiro and she proposed to invite current inactive members. Table topic session is always giving us the opportunity to speak out.
The prepared speaker was TM Tezuka and she tried the last project, Speaking After Dinner, from the Entertaining Speaker to complete her ACB. The title was "Time Management". She shared her busy time schedule and how she manages her daily tasks. It was so interesting to know how she manages the time. Even she is doing well, she learned more time management tips by books and she applied them very well. Now she changed her daily schedule to have more networking events in the evening, and she is now trying to apply new method in time management. We could learn a lot from her speech.
And I evaluated her speech, but again I run out of time.
The lastly TM Morise proposed us to have another table topic session. The first question "How do you think the rosy future of Kimono?" went to TM Tashiro. The second question "When was the happiest time in life?" went to TM Ishizuka and the last question "If you were the prime minister, which prefecture you will get rid of it?" went to me.
In the closing session, we confirmed that the next term officers and club officer training on Saturday. 2 new officers will join in COT#1!
As you can find, Tozai TMC has full of opportunities in speaking. Table Topics, Prepared Speech, Evaluation, and even role taker explanation. And Tozai TMC ensures our trials and failures with warm atmosphere. If anyone of you want to increase your opportunities to speak, Tozai TMC is second to none. That is the reason why this club is active for more than 20 years. Hoping you can find this hidden gem in Division C.