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…

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

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…

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…

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….