Author Archives: Richard Graham

Music Stuff

Had two days to work on the new music stuff I’ve got going!

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8 hours to Kyushu + OK!

I got picked up at 9 o’clock by one of the school’s teachers to take me to train station. He was telling me how his daughter was going round the house this morning saying “Dekiru, Dekiru, Dekiru!”. Nice. So then the 8 hours back to Kyushu, which was actually not too bad. I hadn’t been…

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First Grade & Great school in Ishikawa

This is my fourth time to Ishikawa ( the second this year) but my first to the Noto Peninsula, and it is nice to be back in the fresh air! I pretty much knew that today would go well as the teacher who had organised it was totally on the ball. Of course the real…

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8 Hours to Ishikawa

I think today’s school has been the longest ever commute, timewise. I set off at 8 and arrived at the hotel ( very nice with a great view!) and 5. But I did managed to get some work done, including the new “Where is Mr Money” song which is sounding well cool. Tomorrow I have…

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Back by the River in Kyushu

This morning I felt like I really needed a secretary as it took me an hour to book my rail ticket for tomorrow, and another hour to find a hotel for the JALT conference next week. Then an hour to go into town to buy some envelopes and ink cartridges. But then I popped down…

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Video remaster

Today I had to re-master the Teaching Training video. The video is being re-duplicated again and this time I wanted to take advantage of having my new computer to digitally remix the master, this time it will be on DVD as opposed to Digital Video Tape. Actually I would love to make the whole Teacher…

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