Today’s school was also pretty cool. I have a three hour workshop with the teachers next month but today they asked for a show whilst the kids are still in term time. And the kids were great. A few knew “What’s your name?” but even just having them get the motivation stuff from the beginning makes a huge difference! For all of you out there I’d really stress getting the kids confident and believing they can do it, it makes life so much easier!!!!

Actually I found out at the end that from this year the school will be the new pilot school for Fukuoka and they’ll have 4 regular ALTs! Wow. Some schools have none, some have 4! But they are employed by an English School so the Japanese teachers still have to come up with the lesson plans etc. which is good because it means the teachers will be able to continue things once the ALT funding goes next year. They also have a really good teacher to look after the programme and as she seems so keen I’m sure the school will do very, very well!

Then in the evening I had an interview with SPA magazine. They said it was a magazine for guys, so yesterday I had to check that it wasn’t a dodgy publication like so many of them seem to be in Japan!! But it is a normal magazine, and is apparently one of the most popular in the country!! Cool. And the theme was “What will everyone’s English level be like in 10-15 years time?”. And if you want to see my reply check out the magazine!