Getting up at 6 and having a shower in a Japanese house brought back all the memories of all the freezing cold houses I’ve homestayed in in the past! Luckily these days it’s quite warm! Went off to the school and checked out the sound system and everything was cool. I was going to sit…

Now I know where all the money went last year, on Shinkansen fares!! It doesn’t half cost a fortune to move around Japan. But I made it up to Soryo Town in the wilds of Hiroshima safely and met up with the ALT and her Kouchou Sensei. The Kouchou sensei took us to her house…

I seemed to be well busy today. It took till lunchtime to sort out all the email enquiries about the CDs ( the need to eat necessitates these taking priority!), then out to get my hair cut and the photo shoot for the Genki Phonics CD sorted out. That took a while and in the…

It’s my day off again today, they seem to come round very often now that I have one per week! Mind you I spent the morning doing mail and stuff. Then went out to the new Outlet Village in Tosu. There wasn’t too much there ( apart from the really cool Lego shop – I…

I wasn’t too genki in the morning, so went off to work in the local Royal Host restaurant. The best thing is that they have an “all you can drink” drink bar. So after a dozen or so coffees I was going head on with a load of new stuff! Great!

I managed to catch the Larry King show this morning. That is such a great show. The people on there are such an inspiration, with all the stuff they’ve done and the people they’ve met. Everyone looks about 30, but most of them are over 70! And they all say the same thing, whatever you…