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…

Had a good school today, with another 2.5 hour workshop. It’s great getting into the rhythm of things as this week it’s full on with school workshops!

Back to Okayama again! Along with Fukuoka, Okayama has some of the best elementary school teachers in Japan. They are really genki and don’t need too much motivation talking, they’re already into it and are just wanting new ideas and techniques. Which was just as well today as there were so many teachers they split…