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…

It was an absolutely gorgeous day today, perfect weather. And as luck would have it I was heading off to Shikoku, great! The bus ride was quite nice, I got a lot of work done, then to settle into the hotel that will be home for the next 5 days. In the evening I had…

Today was another model presentation, brilliant. I did the same contents as last week in Tokyo ( What’s your name?, then the Teaching Guide Video, then some Genki Phonics ( the CD quizzes proved popular!), mingle, the Genki card game and finished with the Halloween song) And they just loved it! In fact they loved…