Got a lot of new stuff on the website today. Including the new “Classroom English / Classroom Japanese” page. I added in the Japanese and also put the Japanese in Roman letters which should hopefully help out new ALTs. I would have certainly loved something like this when I was a JET! I also put…

I learnt quite a lot today! Today’s school was a bit special and quite secret ( you’ll notice it’s not on the schedule) because for the last 2 years they’ve had one of the other Elementary School experts helping their school out. I was quite surprised to find that the head of that particular publisher…

The weather is very strange recently, today was a full on electrical storm with lightning going everywhere! I also had a splitting headache so after my laptop’s battery died I went for a lie down. I woke up in the afternoon and felt a lot more genki so got to work on the Classroom English…

As it’s back to term time now teachers only have time for workshops after classes have finished. Which is good as that means I can do some stuff with the kids beforehand to show the teachers just how well the songs and ideas work in practice. I usually do this by getting all the kids…

Wow. For the first time in ages it was actually sunny on my day off. Wonderful.

Did quite a few bits and bobs today, playing around with some music ideas and stuff.