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…

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…

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…

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,…