After I had to pay to stay in the Keio plaza I was determined to enjoy it! And this morning was really nice hanging out in a posh hotel room ( usually I’m always too busy!). I did have a breakfast coupon for the really nice restaurant downstairs, but I still wasn’t feeling too genki….

I figured last night it’d be quite safe to go out on the town with the CLAIR people, they’re organising the conference after all, just stick in Shinjuku and get back around midnight. So that’s what I did. But this morning, oh did I feel bad!!!! I went down to do the first presentation and…

I was wide awake this morning, so popped in to the JET conference to say hello and also check out the “Phonics” workshop, which like last week was pretty popular! Then to have a meeting with the publisher of the Kids English series to work out this years plans and schedules. I also found it…

Up early and off to Tokyo today. I had a read of a great new “Super Teaching in Japan” ebook, I’ll have to get a link to it from the site as it’s great! Then the JET conference Information Fair. The thing is that out of the 1,000 plus ALTs who come here, there’s not…

Plan today was to head out to a restaurant and spend a few hours preparing music stuff to record later. But unlike yesterday after just two coffees and 20 minutes everything just clicked and I got a great production going on my music computer! Fantastic! So it was quickly back home to get things recorded….

Tried to do some music work today. But recently I think I’ve been looking too much at hip hop production, which is fine for Junior High stuff, but not really for elementary school songs. So after a day of not getting much done, I went off to the Hard Rock cafe for some inspiration and…