Ginza! July 22, 2018

1. Introduction Ginza Toastmasters Club held their latest regular meeting on Sunday,22th July at Kyobashi-Plaza-Kuminkaikan, in Ginza. We heard three wonderful speeches, enjoyed excellent table topic session and special workshop from the regular member with the guests.

2. Roles Yuko, President of the Club, welcomed everyone to the meeting then led guest introduction. There were 7 guests, including Guanwei, Kazumi, Jenny, Miao, Oriyo, Yumiko and Yoshio. She then took it over to Toastmaster of the Day KANAKO who explained the running order of the meeting. Then, she invited Yuki to conduct the Song of the Day.

3. Song of the Day Yuki proposed “VACATION”, 1962 single by Connie Francis. We enjoyed an exciting journey through the short, productive and creative lyrics. VACATION took us back to an era when emotions flowed like water through a faucet. The festive music captured every nuance of feeling that the singer delivered. In short, VACATION truly touched our soul and heart.

4. Prepared speech Then, the first speaker Yuki presented Visionary Communication #4 - Researching and Presenting - titled “Value Proposition(VP)” (take #1). Yuki illustrated the enormous impact VP is having especially in the area of jobs. We learned that VP helps business builders to be clear about who a business for and how it delivers value to them when we really want to understand our customers. He gave us first tip on VP, clarifying what jobs the customer is trying to gain and where that is painful. Yuki will navigate all to map those gains and pains for Ginza to identify our values at the next workshop (take #2).

Next speaker was Bin, with her Storytelling #4 - titled “My father and I”. This was a personal speech about her relationship with her father. Bin shared with us multi stories from her childhood and adolescence while recalling the best and worst memory she ever had with him at her graduation ceremony in China. She learned great deal from her father… even bad dates! Her father’s love is all around her and she will accept it in whatever form it comes to her. We were left feeling very touchy indeed.

The last speaker was Oriyo impressed the audience with her outstanding Competition speech titled “Song of Joy”. This was all about a life of Ludwig van Beethoven, amazingly creating his unique character. Her masterly performance of Beethoven was delivered in a fun enjoyable way and offered tangible immediate takeaways that moved us to action. She (Beethoven) ended up with message through “Song of Joy”, we’ll give happiness and joy to many other people and there is nothing better or greater than that” We left inspired, informed and entertained through her entertaining story.

5. Workshop Drian presented the great workshop, titled “Charismatic” #2. He suggested great tips on how to become charismatic future by sorting personal characteristics. Drian invited us to try out several tricks to be active listener more in future, for example, trying to show your interest to our speakers.

6. New member induction ceremony After the short break, VPM Yuki welcomed the inductee, Rio, Sugar, Romi and Junya into Ginza and they stated her Ginza’s expectations and the Ginza's memberships' responsibility to them. Both of regular members and new members promise to contribute to the other's success.

7. Table Topic Session Table Topics Master Andy then organized wonderful impromptu session on personal lives which Romi, Rio, Sugar, Kazumi and Rong joined. Highlights included Indy Jones favorite story in Romi, an ideal living place in the future in Rio, sweet love in Sugar, lovely animal in Kazumi and strongest memory in the child in Rong.

8. After the table topic session, General Evaluator Yuko invited three wonderful evaluators – Yossy for Yuki, Kenny for Bin and Masayo for Oriyo. Finally, Yuko evaluated our meeting.

9. Awards Best Table Topics Sugar Best Evaluator Kenny Best Speaker Oriyo

10. Next meeting The next meeting will take place at Kyobashi-Kuminkaikan, on Sunday, 26th August, at 13:30. Eva will do Toastmaster. Come over to practice your public speaking!