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…

The new Phonics CD has audio games for each of the ten phonemes on there, and for each one there needs to be a worksheet. The three that have been on the site have proven really popular, so I did the other seven today. I also figured it’d be useful to have A4 sheets with…

This is the day I really, really dislike!!! It’s the day of sending off the Phonics CD master to the factory. Which means that everything has to be 100% totally and utterly perfect, any mistakes here and it will cost a fortune to fix. So everything has to be minutely checked, and checked and checked…

After seeing the difference the new coding on the site made to the English version, I had to update the Japanese version as well. That took all day, in fact till 3 in the morning!! But the pages are miles faster, easier to print out and hopefully easier to maintain. The last major coding on…

It was back to work full time today, and it’s finally time to send off the Genki Phonics CD. So a lot of the time was spent on the phone organising things. Then in the evening I cracked on with updated the rest of the site to the new, faster format!

It’s the beginning of the so-called “Golden Week” holidays in Japan, one of only 3 times in the year that Japanese people actually take a day off, and go and spend it in a traffic jam. I was planning on taking the day off as well, but I had a listen to the phonics CD…