On August 22th, the Keyforce Toastmasters Club had a summer gala 2023!! Current and former Keyforce members and Division Director got together. We enjoyed the self introduction by each participant, special speech session and singing Keyforce song together! Especially, special speech session is first challenge for our summer gala. Keyforce members voted for speeches given at previous regular meetings that we would like to listen again. All participants seems to have enjoyed these speeches! Some photographs of the gala were below.
July the 19th became our memorial day, the first online-offline hybrid meeting in the Keyforce Toastmaster Club's history. We connected our home ground, the Tokyo Women's Plaza where 9 people including 2 guests got together, to Zoom where other Keyforce members got themselves connected. Thanks for President TM Mai Araki's great efforts together with other member's support, the meeting could start at 19:15 and finished by 21:00 that was the time we must vacate the room altogether. Of course we found several points to improve but will continue to set the second meeting of the month as a hybrid one going forward.
On 11/15 we had the 9th regular meeting which was a hybrid one starting from 19:00. This night, TM Tokky Mariko made her debut as a prepared speech speaker by delivering her “Icebreaker”. The Icebreaker is a self-introduction speech and the very first one that every new Toastmaster must perform before making any other prepared speeches. TM Mai Araki, Tokky’s evaluator, praised her for making the audience laugh within a minute from the start of the speech. Mai knew that making people laugh by an English speech was not easy. Tokky also went through her speech without the help of speech notes. It was a great accomplishment! By the way, are you interested in our club? If so, feel free to contact us and be our guest to start with! I am looking forward to listening to your Icebreaker eventually.