People have been saying I should head over to Hong Kong for ages and this was my first proper time. ( The only other time I’ve been here was when the aeroplane I was on had an engine fire and we had to do and emergency landing!! But that’s another story.). I was expecting the…

It was my day off today and it was sunny – yeah! So days off in September call for fruit picking. First off we went up to pick some grapes but apparently they’d all been blown away in the typhoon. So we went fig picking instead which was good, although the trees were very low…

Today was clearing up all the loose ends before I head off to Hong Kong this week. First up was finishing off the game software for the MEXT pilot school, there are now quite a lot of pilot IT schools who use GE, I should maybe think about doing workshops for them! Then I did…

Today I attended a presentation by Tom Merner, who has done a lot of work with elementary school English activities. Tom is really on the ball, is a great bloke, really knows his stuff and gave a great presentation. He started off by going through the guidelines. And he was very much focussing on the…

Got a lot of new stuff on the website today. Including the new “Classroom English / Classroom Japanese” page. I added in the Japanese and also put the Japanese in Roman letters which should hopefully help out new ALTs. I would have certainly loved something like this when I was a JET! I also put…

I learnt quite a lot today! Today’s school was a bit special and quite secret ( you’ll notice it’s not on the schedule) because for the last 2 years they’ve had one of the other Elementary School experts helping their school out. I was quite surprised to find that the head of that particular publisher…