Spent the morning running around changing hotels, then over to Shibuya to have a chat about organising an adults eikaiwa show using the Genki English songs and games. I might as well put the wheels in motion whilst the idea is still fresh! Shibuya is the Japanese city of fashion and has some pretty cool…

Things just seem to be on a roll at the moment. Today’s workshops were just brilliant. I had no idea how many people would turn up, and I wouldn’t have thought that many of them even knew Genki English, but the the room was overflowing, with people standing at the back and taking up just…

Today was the JET Programme Tokyo Orientation where 1,500 new JET teachers arrive for 3 days of being jet lagged, hungover and getting an onslaught of being thrown head first into Japan. It’s also the first time I’ve attended ( well, except for the time when I first came myself, of course). And today was…

Kagoshima is one of the interesting cities in the World, where the people who were deciding where to build it must have said “Where shall we build our new city?” and someone said “Oh yes, right next to a live volcano!”. As you do. So today was a “mini conference” sponsored by JALT and the…

It’s not that often that you get to go to work on a boat! And a pretty posh high speed one at that. Today started off with a quick hop across Hakata bay to a school I did a workshop for last year. This year they asked me back to do more games and songs…

Some schools are just perfect. And I think today was the easiest workshop I’ve ever done. The teachers were mega genki, up for learning new stuff and asking lots of great questions. If every school in Japan were like this they’d rule the World. We started off with the warm up and they got into…