Author Archives: Richard Graham

Nagasaki is still the best

During the kids’ shows one of the tricks I use to get the kids more hyped up is to tell them that the schools I went to the week before were so much better. It gives them a huge boost and really puts into practise the “Losing just means Try Again!” rule, I just say…

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Off to Nagasaki

Monday’s usually my day off but today we drove down to Nagasaki intending to do a bit of sightseeing, but we only just arrived in time to meet the teacher from tomorrow’s school! Nevermind, it was a very pleasant evening.

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Fukuoka Teachers

I was really looking forward to today, this group of private teachers in Fukuoka is one of the best in the country, they are really keen for new ideas, are totally genki and it’s about the only place in the country I can do the workshop in English and everyone can keep up!! I’ve also…

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Spiderman!

Hey! No production work! So my only job today was email and general business stuff, it felt like heaven with no pressure! In the evening I went out to see Spiderman 2, which was well cool and really got me genki again. So instead of sleeping I had a ton of new ideas flood to…

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Day trip to Okayama

I think this must be the longest day trip I’ve ever done! But it was cool to have no heavy bags to carry around. The ALT in the town rang me a few weeks ago asking for a show and seminar. Of course I said, “cool” but it seemed like an awfully short time to…

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Stress free?

After last night giving up on the remix project my mind was running away with all the new ideas and projects I can now start! I must be mad – but I have some great ideas! So the plan was to take things easy today and get some rest before all the workshops I’ll be…

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