They say you should never go back to the scene of the crime. And after last week’s perfect workshop I would have been quite happy to bow out on a high note. But I didn’t record last week’s workshop, and I was still booked for today. So I started off and wow, what a difference….

It seemed strange going “back” to Tokyo last night, Tokyo isn’t quite the place you look forward to returning to! But today was the AJET Info which is cool as I got to talk to a lot of new JETs, and as this day is a commercial event I could also show people the Genki…

OK, how to motivate 70 teachers at 10 AM on a Sunday? A challenge. Especially when I find out there is no projector. And there are also a load of kids. But…. as luck would have it these were the kids who always turn up in Nagoya, and they were great, even better than the…

As the title says, computer work, shinkansen, a nice dinner in the Outback Steakhouse, bumped into a couple of JETs, checked out the music festival, and crashed in a capsule hotel because again all the other hotels were full! I am so going to appreciate my Okinawa hotel next week!

Bed at 3 then out to brave the Tokyo subway system at 9, fun fun! But it was worth it as I popped in to see the British Council, mainly to chat about the exchange projects. We were going to have a chat the other week, but things got a bit too busy. Today though…

Recently I’ve really been feeling the big gap between bookstore gigs which last 50 minutes and have a broad range of teachers, and the real professional development workshops in which you really see a progression as the teachers improve. Financially as well, the free bookstore gigs attract good teachers, but also the ones who just…