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Club 4743 U, Japan
Toastmasters Council (JTC)
13 January, 1999:
Vol. 3, Issue 1
Writer / Editor:
Yuko Komata
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Sapporo has lots of snow this year more than 80 cm and Sapporo Snow
Festival is coming
soon; 50th anniversary of its festival..
Today's guests;
Mr. Satoh, Mr. Uraguchi, Mr. Furuta, Ms. Oshima, Mr. Karl, Mr. Perez,
Ms. Monica
Today's word
"dilly-dally" This means waste of time because of negative decision.
Used as "Don't dilly-dally."
Opening Thought: TM Wu chaired this session.
"What are you going to do in the new year?"
"What do you wish to do?"
In Japan, people set objectives of this year. There's also a proverb;
"New Year's Day is the
day to make your plans for the year."
Here're some resolutions of our club members. Please enjoy!
- Challenge at a new place.
- Get a "Sense of fulfillment".
- Need to learn one more language; Russian! Achieve a score of 600
in TOEFL.
- Through small steps, we'll be able to achieve big dreams! To learn
something new every day.
- Learn and speak Japanese. Take a trip to Western part of Japan.
- Updated home page on new years holiday; musical pieces are loaded
on his web. He'd like to buy a new synthesizer and make new musical sounds.
- Improve English speaking skills and study Russian language again.
Complete half marathon at the Sapporo Marathon on October.
According to that poetry, human will be destroyed
on 7 of July, 1999. Can you imagine that
kind of event actually happens on this July? He asked
to several members, "If our world
will be destroyed on that day, where do you go or what
do you do? ".
Most of the TM members don't believe its
poetry. If it happens; TM Ando will accept her
fate, just want to die in a peaceful way. TM Takase wants
to go back to soil substances.
Also we discussed that the next century
will be the century of technology. Perhaps we'll be
able to travel to the space. Every member may enjoy the
nature of moon, Mars, ..etc.
Hopeful future will come soon.
Recently, in Japan, two crimes related to electronic communication happened.
1st case). A man who
was living in Sapporo sold a cyanide through internet and 2 women
died, also he committed suicide by himself.
2nd case). A man living
in Kanto area deceived women and robbed her money while she's
sleeping She's taken sleeping tablets by the criminal,
who got acquainted through
telephone message service. Some of them were killed in
the cold weather.
1). TM Higuchi pointed that the lack of responsibility
is also the advantage of internet
communication. Every new technology has its blight side
and dark side.
Internet is useful and like a dictionary , also we can
communicate to people all over the
world. TM Brazil introduced his case like this; for research
purpose, it's very common to
exchanging e-mails to the person conducting related research
even if each of them didn't
meet before.
2). In Japan, many people in younger generation
using portable phone on their daily life.
As the number of people using portable phone increase,
problems for knowing personal
address / phone number to unspecified individuals happened.
Since no member used that service before, we should but
to imagine the situation.
What a silly woman to contact to a man get to know from
telephone message service.
In both cases, how to use is the problem. Please use them smartly!
Mr. Perez
is a medical doctor who is doing gastric cancer research and now taking
research activities
at Hokkaido University. He introduced his country; Mexico. A very nice
country and attracts
lots of people from all over the world. Mexico has its old history and
new history; Aztec,
Maya Civilization, ..to Mexico City. He welcomes any guests at any time
to beautiful and interesting
country.
TM Ando gave her interesting speech; "Our Toastmasters
activity"
She is the one who is attending to this club from the very beginning
and sometimes asking
"What is Opening Thought ?", "What can we do to promote our club?",
...etc.
Just attending the meeting is not enough. She used some gestures effectively.
Please try to do the following as resolutions of this year;
* Please prepare your speech in advance and be sure to speak at any meeting.
* TM of today should confirm the ability of members for each role.
* Please keep your schedule open at any TM meeting days; 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.
* Benefit of being a member of Toastmasters Club ? This year you
must bring at least
3 guests including one as a new member.