I like Shikoku! It’s a shame I don’t get to see much of it recently! But today was a day off so after having a nice breakfast in the onsen it was a nice drive back to Ehime. On the way we stopped off at the Tokushima rope bridge. At first this seems quite like…

Today was back to businessman mode as we had organised a distributors meeting to show school suppliers what GenkiEnglish.com and the superpacks are all about. It was supposed to just be for reps from Shikoku, but they came from as far away as Shimane and even Tokyo! Blimey! It seems that Genki English is pretty…

Spent the morning doing web work, then in the afternoon it was off to the Teaching University here to have a chat with one of the teachers who’s going to be in charge of a new Elementary School English Teacher Training Programme. That went quite well ( I even got offered a job, which of…

Today was a great school. And it started off with a great set of teachers. The gig today was a show in the afternoon and then a teaching workshop afterwards. However the teacher who I’d been in touch with also asked me to do a demo lesson for just her class in the fourth period….

Wow, this year is crazy, another typhoon and this one was another biggy! But one lucky thing was that I didn’t have to get up early as the school I was supposed to visit was cancelled. So managed to catch up on computer work. Then in the evening I went out for dinner and the…

One of the most requested items I’ve had over the years has been Miniature Versions of the A4 picture cards. And today I finally got round to producing them! I did a few this morning, and sent out a couple of emails to people and also on the discussion board. I was actually planning to…