These last few weeks have been hectic to say the least! I’ve just spent the last few days in Ehime getting everything ready for the CD5 launch. The new worksheets look really good, we’ve just changed printers and they’ve done a cool job. And over the weekend it was packing up all the CD5 orders….

It’s taken a lot of work but CD5 is finally up on the site! Yeah! Today I uploaded the new lesson plans, picture cards ( all 100 of them!) and got the site all ready to take pre-orders. Going through and changing every mention of the “4CD Set” to be “5 CD Set” was quite…

This week has been quite good really, it’s nice and warm and on Monday I woke up and for the first time didn’t have to think about the new CD!! Wow! Plus Monday afternoon was my holiday! Then it was back to work getting all the other stuff ready. The picture cards, worksheets and a…

The discussion board has been taking up a lot of time recently, and I woke up today to find it had been hacked! I can’t believe how some people just get their kicks out of taking down a site’s forum, especially something like the Genki English one. It looks like a common attack and there…

Dave Stewart once said “You never finish an album, there just comes a point where you have to let go”. Over the past few weeks I’ve been putting more and more in to CD5, and I’ve now come up against another barrier – a CD can’t hold any more! So that’s it, it’s finished! Last…

Ooo! Big Earthquake! I’ve been spending half the year, or sometimes more, in Japan for about 7 years now and in that time I’ve had quite a few earthquakes. To be honest most of them are like “oo, an earthquake” and it’s all quite exciting and passes after a bit. But today’s started out like…