Hello! Welcome to the Silicon Valley Japanese-English Toastmasters!!
(SVJETS) is a bilingual public speaking club for Japanese and English. Whether you need to improve your presentation skills for work, or are just looking to brush up your conversation, SVJETS is the best place for both Japanese and English speaking people! Please see About US! page for more information!
SV JETS is celebrating 20 years of being an active toastmasters club! Congrats to all past and present members!
Next Meeting is March 15th 2012!
Hope to see you all there!
March 1st 2012
Updated soon... Sorry I don't have the meeting minutes
Feb 16th 2012
Updated soon... Sorry I don't have the meeting minutes
Feb 2nd 2012
Updated soon... Sorry I don't have the meeting minutes
Jan 19th 2012!
We had 10 People at the meeting today!
Japanese:
Speech 1: "Concluding your speech!" by Kaz Kushida san
Speech 2: "How to be like god" by Naoki-san
Table Topics: by Kanami-san 話題は：乗馬経験
Ｑ：私は乗馬がどうしても上達できません。どうしても上達またはできないスポーツありますか？
Ａ：Ｒｙｏｕｓｕｋｅさん：私はスポーツ全然だめなのです！全体的に苦手です！
Ｑ：乗馬中死ぬ思いしました。あなたはそんな経験した事ありますか？
Ａ：Ｊｅｒｒｙさん：私はらくだに乗った時にそう言う経験をしました。
Ｑ：のぶよさんも子供の頃馬を飼ってたそうです。あなたはかわったペットを飼っていた経験ありますか？
Ａ：Ｏｍａｔａさん：子供の頃いろいろ飼ってました！
Ｑ：家畜の匂いは独特ですよね。匂いで思い出す事とかありますか？
Ａ：Ｊｕｎさん：子供の頃肥料の匂いを覚えてます！
English:
Speech 1: "RMoPR - Ryosuke's Method of Procrastination Reduction" by Ryosuke-san
Speech 2: "I have a Dream" by Mistuko-san
Speech 3: "Black and White film" by Julie-san
Jan 5th 2012!
We had 19 people show up to the meeting!
English :
Speech 1: "Goal of 2012 " by Akemi-san
Speech 2: "The Hike" by Chase
Table topics by Sabu-san
"English Pronunciations"
Japanese:
Speech 1: "Making Power point come alive!" by Micheal-san
Speech 2: " 日の目を見る” by Omata-san
Table topics by Kaz K. San
"理由は３ある！”
飯田橋ＴＭ のＴａｂｌｅＴｏｐｉｃｓを借りました！
Ｑ：犬派ですか？猫派ですか？
Ａ：Ｊｕｎ－さん：犬派です！理由は３つあります。子供のころ猫にかまれた。犬のほうが忠実そう！友達みんな犬飼ってた！
Ｑ：今 一番行きたい所はどこですか？
Ａ：Ｍａｙｕｍｉ－ｓａｎ：家です。理由は３つあります。和みがあります。Ｃａｌｉｆｏｒｎｉａだから。そこにいるとなにかいういことがありうそうだから。
Ｑ：上司に無理やり忘年会に生かされるのは正しいと思いますか？
Ａ：Ｎｏｂｕｙｏ－ｓａｎ：いいと思います。理由は３つあります。上司と話す時間がある。チームに和む時間がある。チームとはなせる。でも私は無理やり行かされたら絶対行きたくないです。
December 15th 2011!
Sorry I missed this Meeting! Did anyone take notes?
December 1st 2011!
Thankyou Nobuyo-san for taking notes!
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Sorry, I delayed and couldn't catch 2speekers.
Here is 12/1 meeting minute.
English:
Toastmaster - Chase
G.E. - Ernest
Ah counter - Akemi
Timer - Ryosuke
Speech 1 - Trace, CC#3 "Best Things Ever Ate: Hawaii"
Eva - Jun
Speech 2 - Janice, Adv.Comm.#4 "Miss Procrastination"
Eva - Kaz
Speech 3 - Naoki "Legal Sheild"
Eva - Mayumi
Table Topic - Hiroshi Q:"Have you ever felt Poor?"
A : Julie"Yes, when I was student." Janice "I grow up poor. Even now compare to Engineer's salary, teacher's are low, but student's warm hug makes me feel rich."
Japanese:
TM - Ernest
G.E. - Ryosuke
Timer - Hiroshi
Ah Counter - Trace
Speeker 1 - Akemi, Adv.Comm. #5 " 讃岐うどんの世界にようこそ"8to10min.+5min Q&A
*香川県人は、３日に一度はうどんを食べている。お奨めは釜揚げうどん。
Eva. - Omata
Speeker 2 - Nobuyo, CC#9 " 最優秀者かっこちゃん －愛は世界を変える－"
* 話に力が入りすぎて、スライドを見せるのを忘れてしまった！“前代未聞、後世に伝えられる”と、カズさんに言われてしまいました。。。
Eva. - Rie
Table Topic - Kaz Utsumi Q:"2011年の流行語は？”“どじょう内閣の意味は？”
A: Omata"つかみ所がない”、Jun"民間に根ざしていて庶民的なという意味”
November 17th 2011!
Doumo Arigatou gozaimasu Michael san! for taking notes while I'm gone! Sounds like I missed out on an another fun meeting yet again.. darn I gotta get back to the states for SV-Jets!
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Attendees: Jun, Ryosuke, Hiroshi, Ernest, Naoki, Chase, Omata, Mitsuko, Mayumi, Nobuyo, Kaz, Trace, Julie, Akemi and Michael
Guests: Jerry, Dustin and Hiromi
19:00-20:00 : Japanese
Toastmaster: Hiroshi
General Evaluator: Kaz
Timer: Trace
Grammarian: Mayumi
Ah Counter: Akemi
Speaker #1: Michael
Project: #5-Your Body Speaks
Manual: Competent Communication Manual
Title: “Traveling Economically”
Time: 5-7min
Evaluator #1: Jun
Speaker #2: Mitsuko
Project: #1 Mastering the Toast/3 The Roast
Manual: Specialty Speeches
Title: "A Roasting Toast to SVJETS Presidents"
Time: Total 5-8 (Toast 2-3, Roast 3-5)
Evaluator #2: Nobuyo
Speaker #3: Naoki Hada
Project: #2 Resources for Informing
Manual: Speak to inform
Title: “The secret everyone love to know about Human Relationship”
Time: 5 - 7 min
Evaluator #3: Omata
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20:00-21:00 English
Toastmaster: Akemi
General Evaluator: Mayumi
Timer: Nobuyo
Grammarian: Julie
Ah Counter: Trace
Speaker #1: Chase
Project: #7
Manual: Competent Communication Manual
Title: “Secret Fuel”
Time: 5-7min
Evaluator #1: Michael
Speaker #2: Ernest
Project: #10
Manual: Competent Communication Manual
Title: “Carpe Diem”
Time: 8-10min
Evaluator #2: Omata
Table Topics: Kaz
Michael started us off with how to “Travel Economically” using the Web and different Company codes to help lower hotel room rates
Mitsuko-san “Toasted and Roasted the past and present Presidents of SVJETS” and topped it all off with a Peach Cider Toast “Okole maluna” Bottoms Up!
Naoki-san shared “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
Chase shared his “Secret Fuel” Natural Gas and why we should start using it
Ernest explained “Carpe Diem” and finished it off with a J.B. Rittenhouse poem
Kaz-san introduced the Table Topics focusing on the Protesters representing the 99% and the occupy efforts around the World
November 3rd 2011
Thank you Mayumi-san for taking notes from the Last meeting!
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Sorry, it took long time to pass out the notes on our last Toastmasters meeting. We had a busy meeting - 1/3 of the attendees were guests!
Good news - Our area governor, Will, gave us $25 Toastmasters International gift certificate to express his appreciation of our initiative and role taking in the latest area contest. By the way Will even took an evaluator role in English session as we ran out of the regular members :-)
All 5 speeches were nicely organized and well delivered speeches. Among all, Michael made very interesting demonstration speech with the title, "Making Business Travel Easier". We laughed hard! Even the guest with no knowledge of Japanese seemed to understand the contents and had fun. I recommended Michael to become one of our humorous contest candidate with that speech.
Attendees: Jan, Nobuyo, Ernest, Kaz, Trace, Kanami, Michael, Naoki, Mayumi
Guests: Will (our Area Governor), Vu, Dustin (Kanami's guest), Jeff (Mayumi'z guest)
19:00-20:00 : English
Toastmaster: Michael
General Evaluator: Ernest
Timer: Kaz
Grammarian: Ernest
Ah Counter: Kanami
Speaker #1: Jan Evaluation: Wil
Project: #2 Speaking in Praise Manual: Adv Comm: Special Occasion Speeches Title: "Death of Common Sense"
Speaker #2: Naoki Evaluation: Kaz
Project: #5 Speech to Inform Manual: Adv Comm:Speaking to Inform Title: "Technique of Happiness"
Speaker #3: Trace Evaluation: Mayumi
Project: #3 Get to the point Manual: Basic comm Title: "Burglary Prevention Basics"
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20:00-21:00 Japanese
Toastmaster: Jan
General Evaluator: Kanami
Timer: Trace
Grammarian: Mayumi
Ah Counter: Ernest
Speaker #1: Michael Evaluation: Nobuyo
Project: #3 Get to the point Manual: Basic comm Title: "Making Business Travel Easier"
Speaker #2: Kaz Evaluation: Mayumi
Project: #3 Get to the point Manual: Basic comm Title: "仏教を考えるーその２"
October 20th 2011
Thank you Nobuyo-san for taking Notes in my Absense!
Japanese Session :
Toast master - Kanami ( First time role. Well done!)
General Eva. - Jun
Ah Counter - Julie
Timer - Ryosuke
Speech 1 - Kaz Utsumi "佛教をかんがえる その1”
Eva. - Nobuyo
Speech 2 - Naoki "健康について”
Eva. - Michael
English Session :
Toast master - Ernest
General Eva. - Julie
Timer - Hiroshi
Ah- counter - Rie
Speech 1 - Ryosuke " DIY Sous Vide Cooker"
He promised to make his original Sous Vide Cooker by this Christmas!
Eva. - Mayumi
Table Topic - Kaz Utsumi
Questions about Steve Jobs.
Guest : Mamoru Hayakawa, David ???, Jerry
Jerry signed up to join SVJETS!
Best wishes to Katoko-san! I hope you recover from your surgery soon! We hope you will come back to our SVJETS Meeting soon!
October 6th 2011
In my Absense Akemi-san was kind enough to take some notes about the meeting! Thank you Akemi-san!
Attendees: Akemi, Jun, Jan, Julie, Nobuyo, Omata, Ernest, Ryosuke, Mayumi, Kaz, Trace, Kanami and Michael
Guests: Jerry
19:00-20:00 : English
Toastmaster: Ernest
General Evaluator: Kaz
Timer: Julie
Grammarian: Michael
Ah Counter: Akemi
Speaker #1: Trace
Project: #1 Ice breaker speechManual: CCTitle: My Life and Japan
Trace's background from Hawaii, how he learned Japanese history, the great experience of Jets program at the countryside in Ehime prefecture and Judo brown belt as his hobby.
Speaker #2: Mitsuko
Project: #5 Bringing History to LifeManual: StorytellingTitle: The At-risk Student
Definition and characteristics of " At-risk", Student characteristics at James Lick HS, Signs indicating Gang involvement with 2 examples and Interventions and preventions.
Speaker #3: Mayumi
Project: #3 The Sales Training SpeechManual: The Professional SpeakerTitle: SNS Next Generation – Don’t you want to have real friends in the Internet?
SNS research, SWOT analysis of Facebook, Google+, Twitter and etc. SNS Zukare, the introduction of Rusvi and the demo .
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20:00-21:00 Japanese
Toastmaster: Kaz
General Evaluator: Michael
Timer: Ernest
Grammarian: Akemi
Ah Counter: Ryosuke
Speaker #1: Julie
Project: # 4Manual: CCTitle:塞翁之馬
台湾では四字熟語よりも成語が一般的。
一石二鳥
郡盲評象
塞翁之馬など
塞翁之馬の意味の説明
Speaker #2: Nobuyo
Project: #10Manual: CCTitle:姉が教えてくれたこと
お姉さんが家族の世話などで苦労をしていた中で、物事に感謝をする事に気がつき、事態が好転しうまく回るようになった。感謝をする事が大事。
Others Nobuyo san's birthday
Jun san's announcement of future life stage change
SVJETS passed the card to Kaz san for his loss
September 23rd 2011
Congrats! to Ernest and Michael for getting 2nd place in the humorous contest and evaluation contest!
Thanks to all that came out and supported the Contest and watched!
September 15th 2011
Humorous speech contest& Evaluation Contest!! 12 people at our meeting today!
Speech 1: Engrish by Kaz Kushida
Speech 2: Karaoke Logic by Ryosuke
Speech 3: Appreciating a "Heel" by Ernest
Guest Speaker: Melody Chen of SCUMBAT . Thank you for the Wonderful Speech!
Evaluation 1: Julie
Evaluation 2: Hiroshi
Evaluation 3: Michael
Winners were: Ernest and Michael! Please wish them luck in the division contest this Friday 9/23/2011 at the Adobe building in down town San Jose!
September 1st 2011
We had 16 members show up today and 1 guest! Also we have a New member Trace who just joined!!
English session
Speech 1: Body language by Kaz Kushida san
Speech 2: Power in Subliminal training by Rie -san
Speech 3: Secrete of money everybody wants to know!
Japanese Session
Speech 1: 転機のプレゼンテイション Ｂｙ：Ｈｉｒｏｓｈｉ－ｓａｎ
Speech 2：Blind mand and Elephant By: Mitsuko-san
Speech 3: 先人たちが築きあけてきたもの：麻酔の歴史 Ｂｙ：Ｋａｎａｍｉ－ｓａｎ
August 18th 2011
HI all! we started the meeting out with 16 people but ended up with more than 25 at the end! It was very interesting meeting where we covered many topics some informative, some serious, and some upbeat and comical! High lights include Omata-san singing for his second speech! Wow!
Japanese Session
Speech 1: Sakebi by: Sumiko-san
Speech 2: DV by: Mitsuko-san
Speech 3: Time out by: Naoki-san
テーブルトッピクスｂｙＫａｚ Utsumi－さん テーマは: Federal Deficit
Q: Which president do you think spent the most?
A: Ernest: Roosevelt and Reagan? But they had a war to pay for a war so I guess it couldn't be helped.
English Session
Speech 1: Fast and Easy! Paypal statements! by: Rie-san
Speech 2: JAM:SJ by: Michael-san
Speech 3: Pick and Sing! by: Omata-san
Club Business:
Voted on buying a projector for the club: PASSED!
Voted to allow Paypal to be used as a payment option: PASSED!
Area Club contest will be held soon please think of participating!
Nijikai! Report! : WOW! must be record 15! Practically took over Izakaya!
August 4th 2011
Sorry I missed this meeting as well. Anyone take any notes?
July 21st 2011
Sorry I was late for this meeting and did not take any notes.
July 7th 2011
We had a pretty good showing at the meeting today! 19 people made it this evening!
English Session
Word of the day: nonchalant
Speech 1: The King and his four wives by: Jan -san
Table topics by: Ernest Topic: So bad its good!
Q: Are there any movies that are so bad its good?
A: Kazunori-san: Airplane 1 and 2. Also there was a Japanese movie like that to but I can't rember the title.
Q: A game that was so bad it was good?
A: Ryosuke-san: Played Clay fighter when I was a child it was not a good game but I enjoyed it as a child.
Q: How about foods?
A: Omata-san: (sorry could not hear answer)
A: Mayumi-san: I like weird stuff, but the latest weird thing would be intestine of cow?
Q: How about books?
A: Gil-san: "How to win friends and slay enemies"It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Q:How about a song?
A: Nobuyo-san: "I don't like Mondays"
Japanese Session:
Speech 1: 尊敬する人：母 ｂｙ：
テーブルトッピクスｂｙＫａｚｕｎｏｒｉ－さん テーマは: 日本で初体験したこと
Ｑ：私はよく地震を日本にいる間に経験しました。あなたが地震を経験したらどう反応しますか？
Ａ；Ｒｙｏｓｕｋｅさん：私は１９８９年に地震体験しました。ちゃんと言われた道理に反応できました。
Ｑ：初めて座禅してみました。そうしたらいろいろと考えが頭に入ってきます。あなたが座禅したら何を考えますか？
Ａ：Ｍａｙｕｍｉ－さん：私はアロウラに集中します。後２０分近く話せますけどここで止めます！
June 16th 2011
Hiroshi-san thank you for Taking meeting minutes while I'm gone:
Hello SVJETS memebers
Here's a summary of 6/16 SVJETS meeting.
- 20 people showed up including 4 guests. Wow!! This is our best record lately!
- This is the last regular meeting under the current officers. お疲れ様でした！
- Officer election was conducted by Mayumi, and new officer members are elected successfully! 頑張って！
- We had 2 Japanese speeches and 4 English speeches.
Japanese session
1) Rie - めざせブリリアント・カット (Is the title correct?)
2) Mayumi- 彼女が育った日々
English session
１）Jun - Tassimo – Single Serve Coffee Brewery Machine
2) Naoki - Invitation to DTM
3) Ernest - Visualizing Success
4) Kanami - Serendipity
Each speech was well organized, well prepared and I felt like watching some great movies and very satisfied.
Great job, speakers!!
Notable things from the sessions.
Ernest completed CC manual ! Congrats!!
Jun completed CL manual ! Congrats!!
* Jun-san, please submit those to TM website.
Now, we're supposed to get 9 DCP points out of 10, which is the President Distinguish Club status. Congrats, SVJETS!!
June 2nd 2011
Akemi-san thank you for generating Meeting minutes while I'm gone!
Akemi-san's meeting minutes:
On behalf of Kazunori-san, I'll summarize 6/2 SVJETS meeting.
12 people showed up including 1 guest..
We had 2 English speeches and 3 Japanese speeches.
English
1) Mitsuko - Inspiration personified
2) Ernest- How Feminist Rhetoric is Destroying Modern Society
Table topics by Hiroshi
1. Which city do you want to live outside and insideUSA?
2. How can you entertain a Mother -in -law and a niece in bay area?
Japanese
１）Julie - 京都に残した記憶
2) Naoki -水中出産
3) Kaz -神風特攻隊
All speeches were prepared well and inspired the audience.
May 19th 2011!
Hiroshi-san Thank you for the meeting summary While I'm gone. Here is Hiroshi-san's meeting summary:
17 people showed up including 4 guests.
Mark is now coming back as a guest.
High lights from the meeting.
We had 3 English speeches and 3 Japanese speeches.
1) Kyoko - House of Green
2) Rie - Disaster Management Application: Sahana
3) Kanami - Ice Breaker
4) Mitsuko Terakawa-san (Jan) 金屏風の裏
5) Michael-san - Presentation and working with an English speaking audience
6) Naoki-san - ありがとうの秘密
Variety of topics and all are very interesting in very different aspects. How nice!!
May 5th 2011!
We had a pretty good showing today! 14 members and 1 guest and 1 new member joining!
Takashi-san came back for this meeting !!
High lights from the meeting include
1) Julie-san did her Ice breaker speech!
2) Janice -san's speech "To Sleep perchance to Dream"
3) Many interesting stories about mothers shared for Table topics! Thanks Rie-san for being table topics master!
4) Hiroshi-san and Michael -san tag teaming Table topics and getting some very interesting questions about finding a soul mate and things we hate.
5) Sabu-san using ”友白髪” seamlessly in table topics and impressing everyone!
