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Take any problem in the World and it's invariably caused ( or made worse)
by a lack of education. Too many kids hate school because it's too boring.
The aim of Genki Learning is to have all subjects in all countries taught
in a fun, engaging and effective way. There are already a few million kids
benefiting from this, and even a whole country where the government has
put it in all their schools. But there's still a long way to go!
While I'm on the road you'll hear about my travels & workshops, and
when I'm doing studio work I'll keep you up to date with ideas, updates
to the site and some of my favourite teaching resources. So if you want
to find out what's it's like behind the scenes or how & why I do what
I do or even if you're just nosey or a bit bored, have a read.
I'll update the diary as often as I can, so keep coming back. And of course
whilst I'm away, the office staff are always ready to send off your CD orders just as soon as you send them in!
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Typical I guess. So I slept most of the day. In the evening I sorted out the master of the Genki English Card Game, it looks like we might be able to make it into a printed product, which should hopefully save a lot of people a lot of time!
I wonder how much email other people get? I seem to have several lots for each of my different hats, both running the business, and doing consulting, plus several thousand spams!
Anyway I got up this morning and wasn’t feeling at all genki!! It was supposed to be a recording day today, so I took myself out for a big lunch and over lots of coffee replied to all my email ( so I had a clear conscience) and got all psyched up to start recording. Then my girlfriend rang to say she’s finished work early and we should go out! But she fell asleep!
So I couldn’t do any recording, but as it happens I got a call to say that the Phonics CDs have just arrived in Ehime! Yeah!!!!! So whilst Mrs Abe is hard at work sending off all the pre-orders ( there is still one day left if you want free post and packing!!), I spent the evening getting the site all ready for full on phonics orders ( including international orders) and sent out all the confirmation emails. Cool!
And tomorrow I’ll take my girlfriend out!
After this week’s presentation at the Education Center, I’ve had quite a few schools asking me to go and do workshops for all their staff. That’s really cool, but it also means June is now a very busy month! Plus I have tons of production work, as well as normal business work to do! So I’m a little bit behind!
But I got most stuff done so popped out in the evening for dinner and wine at a friends house.
To print the picture cards we have a load of printers in Ehime, but I don’t actually have one with me in Fukuoka. So instead of paying a fortune to Kinkos every week I got a printer. It took ages to choose though, staff training in shops needs a bit of improving!
Legal MP3 downloads are also becoming more accessible in Japan, now you can just pop along to your nearest convenience store and download your favourite songs onto your phone or MP3 player. The good thing for Genki English viewers is the pricing, the going rate is 300 yen per song. Now that might mean that having the Genki English songs as paid for downloads might be a possibility in the future. I’d have to check out the technical and security stuff, but it also gets round the problem of people wanting to just buy the songs without the “Be Genki” software. Mind you I downloaded a 300 yen song onto my phone and it wouldn’t play! Oh well, the idea is still full of potential!
Along with a lot of help from the ALT, it took four years to set up this gig - a three hour presentation to over one hundred teachers from just about all the Elementary Schools in Fukuoka city!! They were very keen and asked great questions and it’s always nice to have three hours because I don’t have to rush anything. It did take them a while to get the “dekiru, dekiru, dekiru” point, but once they heard the “International Understanding” speech they were all on board. Great! And afterwards I got invited to a load of schools to do follow up presentations!
So thanks to everyone at the Education Center for sorting things out, it was great!
So I came home very tired, but very happy and watched Coronation Street for an hour or so!
Now today was a cool today! I attended a “power lunch” organised by the Foreign Entrepreneur Promotion Committee. It was really great to mix with such positive people. Entrepreneurs are always so full of energy and motivation, basically because if they’re not, they don’t eat! It’s amazing all the things that foreign businesses are doing in Fukuoka, there are all sorts of fantastic projects! And all that enthusiasm is certainly infectious! Great!! So I met a load of great people, had a great time and got lots of free champagne! Can’t be bad!
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