Report of Regular Meeting August 2004

I. Bird-watching

Tsuyoshi Hosokawa, Chairman of CS-Wellness Committee

We changed the meeting place to the Minami-Giyotoku station, because, the previous day, we saw the weather forecast: "Tomorrow, with the influence of the typhoon number 16, it will rain heavily." Riding the car of the members who came with the car, we headed for the hangar of observation of wildfowls in Giyotoku.
In the hangar of observation, Ms. Junko Hasuo who concerns it from its establishment talked about the history, the act of man, the geography and the environment in this protection ward. We learned much about the necessity and difficulty of the maintenance of the protection ward in the downtown place. We walked on the green tract of land, visited the protection ward and returned to the hangar of observation. We observed wildfowls respectively with the well maintained telescope of equipment pleasantly.
Next, quiz about the wildfowls. Though the problems were difficult, 3 members got the maximum point of tie score. They played a game of rock-paper-scissors to decide their ranking: 1st: Ms. Yamamoto, 2nd: Ms. Okamoto (Y'sling of Mr. Yoshioka), 3rd: Mr. Tanaka. By the way, the forecast of the heavy rain failed. We didn't open our umbrella under the rainy clouds. We passed the day which was extremely suited to the outdoors activity. After taking a set photograph, we moved to the "Kamo-en", restaurant of duck cuisine, which means "duck garden".

II. Regular Meeting and Lunch

Yasuhiro Kuroiwa, Secretary

We had the regular meeting in the "Kamo-en" at Irifune, Ichikawa City. Opening chime, Y's song, reading of the Bible and prayer by Ms. Shigemi Sato, introduction of Mr. and Ms. Kojima, today's guests.
Business committee reports, notice of the auction holding in the regular meeting of October, request of cooperation to the street collections of the International Cooperation Fund" on September 11th, announcement about the regular meeting of September. We celebrated the birthdays. After the Bangladesh fund and the smile fine, we sang the song of YMCA and closed the regular meeting. Next, the lunch: we enjoyed the duck sukiyaki. After meals, the president of "Kamo-en" lectured about the history of the duck hunt.
After that, we moved to the Toyocho Center of the Tokyo YMCA. We attended the peace caravan of Mr. Steeve Leaper. We burned Frankfurt sausage in the summer festival of the Toyocho Center. We ended the summer day being rich in content.