Well, not really Hallowe’en, but it was the Nagoya leg of the Nellie’s Bookstore tour. And that was really good. The room filled to capacity when my presentation started and everyone had a great time with the Phonics CD ( showing off all the styles seems to work well, especially the James Brown, Fatboy Slim…

Plastic toy food is a common request for teachers of small groups, and I’ve managed to find some! So I put up an order form on the site today. I’m not sure how many of these I’ll be able to provide, but if you’re interested, click here for Plastic Food!! I also did the November…

Had a school show this morning, and it didn’t quite go as well as it could. Well actually it was pretty bad to be honest. The thing is that it wasn’t anything big that went wrong, just lots of little things that piled up. For starters I was actually surprised that this school invited me…

Wow at last a full day to get some work done! And I had a lot to do. I got the English newsletter sent off, and the Japanese one ready for proof reading. Then I updated the Christmas Song page to have ( some very Christmassy ) photos of the actions. It’s one of my…

Got picked up at 1:30 and driven right to the other side of the island to a teachers meeting in Oita. Usually I do these things as a consultant hired by the school or board of education, but today the local school suppliers had brought me over and set everything up, so that meant I…

After a week of travels it took a couple of days just to get things sorted out and back on track