I know it sounds cheesy, but that’s really what I did today! The Lions Club in Fukuoka have got together a great bunch of teachers to go and teach at one of the local orphanages every week. They asked me to help out, and as I was in town, I popped along today to do…

Back to Fukuoka and time to catch up with a few teachers in the city. Over the last few months I’ve been really focussed on what Japanese elementary school teachers are needing, so it was good to get another perspective, some very nice free coffee and food and another set of additions to my “to…

I’ve been invited back to do another set of workshops at the KOTESOL Young Learners conference in November ( details on the site when I get them!), so popped over to Busan to check out a few things. 2 hours 55 minutes on the ferry, it’s easier to get to than most of Japan!

Today was also a funny school. I was back in Fukuoka where the Board of Education basically decided to do English, but leaves it up to each school. So in today’s school the Headteacher decided she wanted to do it, but needed some help with getting the teachers willing and able to do it! So…

Today was an interesting school in that when I was looking through their curriculum, I wasn’t cringing every two minutes, there weren’t any mistakes ( a very rare thing!), and there were actually some funky things in there, such as a nice reply to “I want to be a (job name)..”, “Why?” “Because it’s cool”….

Wow a day off! Which roughly translated means I spent till 2 PM catching up on my emails, then took the Shinkansen down to Aichi for a meeting with the teacher from tomorrow’s school. Then got hassled at the hotel for not having my passport on me, there are still some racist nutters out there,…