Author Archives: Richard Graham

The second time around

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…

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Minoshima Elementary School – perfect!

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…

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Okayama – All day bullet train, frogs & peaches

So after last night having one or two too many shandies, I wasn’t feeling too genki this morning! But I had to get up early to get the Shinkansen down to Okayama. And they were all full! I’d forgotten it was a 3 day holiday. So I had to get a non-reserved ticket, and I…

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Tokyo – EU-Japan Year of People-to-People Exchanges Video Clip Competition Award Ceremony and 2005 British Council Team-Teaching Lesson Plan Competition Award Ceremony

Now that’s a long title! I got a call the other week asking me to attend the event tonight, to meet a lot of people and to offer my support to the competition. As this is just the sort of thing I’m wanting to help promote in schools it sounded like a nice evening. And…

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It’s Summer

After the rain ( very late, but still welcome, droughts are not fun in Japan!), it’s now Summer. And it seems like the whole city is buzzing from the upcoming festivals ( I’m in Fukuoka at the moment). So here’s a nice picture of one of the huge decorations they have dotted all over town,…

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busy, busy

I’ve been so busy making things I haven’t had chance to update the blog! Have a look round the site, there’s lots of new stuff e.g. online videos of my workshops, new kids pages, a cool way to send money home plus lots more coming soon! I’ve got to get everything finished before the big…

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