Whilst many of you in Asia will have been lucky enough to watch the solar eclipse, I had the morning off and this is what I saw under the sea! Mind you I wish Australia would get its internet speeded up, it’s not very Location Free Lifestyle friendly! So apologise for late email replies etc. …

Due to popular request, Val has been busy at work making videos of Genki English songs with ASL signs! ( Here’s her original article about why ASL works so well: “The Amazing Discovery”). If you’re wanting to figure out what the signs for various words are, I’m finding the iphone to be invaluable. Grab the…

It’s forty years today since we first set foot on the Moon. 40 years. But what have we done since? When I was doing my undergraduate degree, using a NASA satellite to study an Active Galactic Nuclei, I thought man landing on the moon was the most important thing we’d ever done. If aliens came…

A bit of Monday fun from Flossy, can you guess who it is?

I wasn’t expecting to be here today, but the chance came up so I took it! If your students want to come here then I can highly recommend my friend’s “ryugaku” company.  She’s been doing fantastic trips for high school students and “oyako ryugaku” (where the parent studies English during the day whilst the child…

Here are a few of the other great ideas that the teachers came up with at the Fukuoka ACET meeting the other day. Their next meeting is in September, be sure to pop along if you are in town! Othello Phonics I have to admit I still don’t quite get the rules of Othello yet,…