My scheduled day off and a big typhoon comes. I came seem to win with the weather this year! But I took the chance to do all the errand things like going to the bank and stuff.

After a very good night’s sleep it was up for a very big breakfast. Then I popped into the onsen. Oh my goodness, it’s massive! With great huge Greek statues of horses and gods, pouring water into the baths. The owner caught up with me again and had a chat about how it would be…

Today I was due to go up to Ishikawa for a private kids show and parents Q&A. But the way the finances worked out it would effectively mean I’d be doing it for free. This month I’ve already done a heck of a lot of volunteer work at schools in Fukuoka ( I’ve only been…

Today was the last of the Summer Workshops for this year. In previous years August has been the fund raising month doing private shows and bookstores to fund the free school visits, but this year was the real thing with hours and hours of elementary school workshops. And it is really great because in the…

I have a very strong affection for today’s school as when I first took Genki English out of Ehime and was going round Fukuoka on a bicycle, in a typhoon, cold calling on schools asking to do shows and seminars today’s school was the first school that put their trust in me and asked me…

Today’s school was from lunchtime, and was again really good. There were 2 new ALTs who also attended today. They had just arrived in Japan and looked more than a little shell shocked by my presentation ( it was in Japanese as well!), but they got into things and hopefully picked up some hints and…