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…

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…

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…

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…

I tried to fly from Matsuyama to Fukuoka last night and it was fully booked! I never realised so many people wanted to fly between Shikoku and Kyushu. So I had to get up very early this morning to take the high speed boat across. That was alright and I got all my emails up…

Whilst yesterday’s school had all the indications of greatness, I wasn’t too sure about today. The teacher in charge was very much on the ball, but when asked for requests for the workshop the teachers came up with “What did you think of Japan before you came?”. Hmmm. OK, so they don’t really know what…