Author Archives: Richard Graham

In the press!

When I first started Genki English, getting in the press was the most important thing, the way to let everyone know about what I was doing and more importantly to show them the URL. Recently I haven’t really done as much, but today Genki English was in 2 of the biggest newspapers in the prefecture,…

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Hamamatsu – Teaching 1,500 kids!

This must be a record, teaching English to 1,500 kids in one day!! First was a school with 600 kids. First impressions were good as the head teacher asked if he could speak a bit of English. However I then asked about what sort of lessons they do here and he said that they have…

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To Shizuoka

It’s back on the road again! Everytime I do one of these tours I have more and more respect for the sheer stupidity I must have had for started Genki English with a 4 month tour in a camper van! Tomorrow I have a set of schools in Hamamatsu, and this evening I had a…

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Space World

Day off today and it was sunny! So we went out to the Space World theme park in Kokura. It’s showing its age a bit, but it was a nice day out. Then a bit of shopping for some new shoes, Kokura is actually really cool for shopping with its new shopping center! And thanks…

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CD 5 is taking shape!

After last night getting all the boring bits of work out of the way, today I woke up at 12:30 feeling really genki. So I got to work on what I’ve supposed to have been doing all week, recording the demo vocals of the CD5 songs so I can then start on the orchestrations. And…

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Funny Times

It’s 3 AM now and I’m wide awake getting a load of work done. Which is really strange as I’ve spent all day being totally ungenki and not being able to get anything done!! It’s true that it’s easier to work at night! The only thing is that I’ve now finished all my emails, accounts,…

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