Spent the morning updating the website to be able to take pre-orders of the Genki Phonics CD. If you already have the other CDs and pre-order the new one, you’ll get post and packing for free! Then in the afternoon it was my weekly day off, so went down to eat some Unagi by the…

Today was quite cool as I caught up with my very good friend and long time Genki English contributor, Joel Bacha. Joel and I actually did the first Genki English shows together, and he’s also written the brilliant “Teachers & Kids” book. It was cool to catch up on stuff, and his plans next week…

Had a great presentation at Nellies Bookstore today. The teachers were cool, a good mix of newbies and fans, and everyone was very genki. I introduced a new section about goals, and talked about the winner of the UK’s Japanese Speech contest – a kid who had been learning Japanese for one year and 7…

Flew up to Tokyo this morning, the first time this year. One new thing was that the trains were running late! This never used to happen in Japan, but now with all the terrorist warnings it’s making things seem more like back home. So my first meeting was a bit late but a good chat…

I did another of the workbooks ( this time volume III ) and spent quite a bit messing around with new ideas for the new songs and stuff. This is the fun bit, just messing around with music ideas, getting together a set of funky things that work together! One strange thing is that when…

One disadvantage of travelling around all the time is that I only get to see my snail mail once or twice a year. Today I got a load and one of them was for the big workshop I’m doing for Fukuoka Prefectural Education Centre (with over 100 teachers!). They wanted my seal on some documents…