It’s here!! The “What do you want for Christmas?” song is up on the site! I spent the morning doing the vocals, then the rest of the day mixing and writing up the lesson plan. As the poll on the site wasn’t too biased one way or the other, I also did two versions “What…

I spent all morning trying very hard to get the new Christmas song to work. But whatever I did it either sounded genki but not Christmassy, or Christmassy but not genki. And by the evening I was pretty fed up with not being able to do it!!! I was even thinking of giving it up…

Every week I get a report through of what people are searching for on the Genki English search box ( it’s on the top right!). It’s very useful in finding out what new things people want on the site, and which pages need to be made easier to find. One item this month was “Days…

For the first time in ages I’m actually going to be in the same place for nearly a whole month ( well, except for next weekend when I’ll be in Korea). So I’ve actually rented myself a posh new apartment! Wow, the first time I’ve had somewhere of my own to live in years!!! It’s…

Along with “Warm Biz” ( asking people to dress up warm to save fuel in winter) and “Cool Biz” ( which reportedly saved enough energy to power 240,000 homes for a month this Summer), the latest Japanese eco-buzz is pedal powered taxis! Priced at 300 yen they are less than half normal taxi. There are…

Over the weekend I was on TV in Akita for doing Genki English, then today I was on TV in Ehime talking about, of all things, kimono! The thing is I’m not actually in Ehime, I’m back in Fukuoka. Which is quite strange as I was here a few weeks ago and it really seemed…