Author Archives: Richard Graham

An Average Day, only taught 600 kids

Today was a production day doing the new CD remix, but in the morning I just popped out to a school in Fukuoka to do a demonstration class for 600+ kids!! They were actually really good and although it took the 6th graders a while to get it, they eventually got really genki by the…

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Gotta keep going

Today I was soooo tired! But I have a load of production work to do and a very, very full schedule for the next 2 months!

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Kids’ Shows in Osaka

A long time ago the business model of Genki English was that in order to keep the Elementary School visits free, I’d also do private shows where the kids pay to attend. These did work well, but the amount of work for the people who organise the events is just way too much! So three…

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Fantastic Full Day in Osaka

Today was just so good. It was up early, a meeting at 8:30 and then from 9:30 till 7:30 in the evening a full 8 and a half hours of Genki English! I wasn’t sure how many teachers would come, but in the end there were 15 from all sorts of teaching backgrounds ( even…

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Off to Osaka

The only place in Japan my wireless internet doesn’t work is the mountains of Hiroshima! And it took my computer over night just to download the 2 days worth of email ( mostly spam of course!). And this morning I had loads of deadlines to get things sorted, so didn’t leave Hiroshima till lunchtime!! I…

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Back in school – great!

Today was up very early then an hour’s drive into the mountains of Hiroshima. In the morning after chatting to the teachers I got lots of computer work done so was in a good mood! Then in the afternoon was the kids show. Usually for elementary schools I just do a show but today as…

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