I never realised how close China is to Japan. From Fukuoka it’s only a 90 minute flight to Shanghai. That’s quicker than flying to Tokyo! China certainly lives up to all that’s written about it. Talk about a high pace of development, and on such a huge scale. Things even start out well with the…

I’m going to be in China over the next few days, and I probably won’t have regular email. The Japan office will be open around the Golden Week holidays, and I’ll be back on email from the 5th. Just one thing, if you do email me, please check your spam folders for my reply. I…

Over on the forum there’s a really big list of very good websites building up. One of the links put up this week was for a massive pdf book of games and ideas by the JET teachers down in Okinawa. It’s a really big download, but there are so many ideas for Junior High School…

I actually had a bit of time free today to catch up with emails and blog links and things. One of the good sites I heard about is www.chinesepod.com. This is a really great site with loads and loads of podcasts ( which are actually free), all done in a very up to date style….

I didn’t get the last lot of software done for Monday, it took till four o’clock this morning! Then today was spent checking everything. It’s amazing how things have changed in the last year though. Before I used to have make CDs and have them expressed to the factory. These days I can just email…

You know I’ve never actually had to get a visa to visit somewhere before. Especially having a European passport you forget how easy it is now to travel to so many countries. However next week I’m in China, so have to get a proper visa. It’ll be strange not having my passport for 3 days!