Author Archives: Richard Graham

Not exactly brilliant

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…

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Computer things

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…

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Teachers in Oita!

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…

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Sorting stuff out in Fukuoka

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

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Nice day in the Tokushima country

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…

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Distribution

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…

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