Highlights from August Meeting

 “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) Toastmaster’s meeting is a good opportunity to listen to the other’s story and learn from their experience. Here below are the highlights of our August meeting.

Toastmaster of the Day: TM R.H.

Word of the day: TM A.S. /Usage of Simile & Metaphor

Instead of a “word”, she asked members to use “phrases” using” simile and metaphors”.  

For example, Busy as a bee, budding rose, kind as your Grandmother, strict as your teacher, they are the mirrors of you, your speech was half baked, like a samurai sword. We were able to find many Simile and Metaphor in the meeting!

 

Prepared Speech session

1^st speaker: TM T.F.

Speech Title: Coaching

Takamoto Mouri, Shouin Yoshida and Hirobumi Ito…how can we coach subordinates like these Meiji heroes? He advised us to approve other's ideas first instead of insisting on our idea.

It was a nice educational speech and he was also good at using a metaphor, “They are the mirror of you”.

 

2nd speaker: TM M.A.

Speech Title: Believe and Smile

By sharing the memories with her music teacher, she talked about the qualities of a good mentor. A good mentor is someone who is respectful of others and builds a personal relationship. “Believe and Smile”, then the audience is yours… it was a good conclusion!

 

3rd speaker: TM H.T.

Speech Title: Half-baked speech

The brilliant command of English is one of his strong points. He encouraged us to 1. Schedule the next speech first, 2. Have the story/ message bank, 3. Revise old speech. It was a meaningful speech for us. And “Half-baked speeches” was a great metaphor!

  

Table Topic session: TM Y.C./ Theme: Interesting story on the topic we chose.

Topics:

1. Physical distance            TM S.A.

2. Ventilation                      TM H.J.

3. Face mask                      TM. M.K.

4. Traveling                        TM F.T.

5. Essential workers           TM E.I.

6. Stay home                     TM. R.A

Thank you, everyone! I look forward to meeting you on Zoom again in Sep!  

E,I.