Author Archives: Richard Graham

MTV!

Right, it’s still Summer so I want to do some fun work! So today CNN was banned, and it was MTV over breakfast. Then the rest of the day was spent recording and remixing songs for the new adults CD. And I’ve decided to try something a bit radical with this CD… People have been…

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Need more caffeine

Doing workshops everyday really leaves you on a high, helping people out plus doing the actual songs and games is just fun!! So it was down to Earth with a bang today having to sit behind a computer! The fun bit is answering people’s emails, from all over the World, which is great. The boring…

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A Weekend in Guam

After 3 weeks on the road, and a good deal of production work done before that, here’s my Summer Holiday! Yeah!! Only two days, as that’s all the holiday my girlfriend gets, but it was great to go jet skiing, paragliding, snorkeling and just relax and do nothing! Guam’s a cool place, but I should…

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“Super Dynamite” in Kagawa

I don’t know what it is, but there always seemed to be a funny feeling about today’s workshop. I got there a touch early, and they put me away in a room until 15 minutes before the workshop, where I then had to rush a bit to prepare in time. And it also turns out…

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Takamatsu’s nice. + getting the word out

The teacher who invited me yesterday very kindly gave me a lift to the station this morning. She also showed me a new book she’d bought, similar to my Classroom English CD. I’m always on the look out for good stuff ( such as the Apricot picture books or the Springboard readers) so I can…

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In Tokushima + Awaodori

Over the last few weeks all of the workshops have been in places where the teachers are actually having to teach English right now, so are in the “help, we need teaching ideas quick!” mode. Whereas today I was invited by the Educational Research office ( who are very much into things), but the actual…

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