Spent the day sending out the press release of the DVD and making the DVD pages on the website live! It’s official, the DVD is now available to order!! It’s been a lot of hard work, but if it makes Japanese kids genki and positive about the World, it’s worth it!

We’re staying in one of the cheapest hotels in town ( 5,000 yen a night at the “Superhotel” ) whilst at the same time we’re going to be giving away 1,000 copies of the DVD to elementary schools. We must be mad. So to publicise the fact we’re sending out press releases, so today was…

I had a lot of work to do today but didn’t get too much done as we had to take all the trains down to Nara. I did get the DVD print back (the design that is on the actual disc itself) and wow it looks very cool!

It seems quite fitting that I began this year in the Hamilton Hotel in Nagoya (a great place and not too pricey) and now with just one week to go, I’m back. Today we had a presentation for Nellie’s Bookstore. It was also very interesting to see other presenters stealing out jokes…hmmm. Our presentation was…

This morning we had a kids show. Needless to say I wasn’t very genki! But “genki is as genki does” so for that hour I forced myself to be genki! The kids were great though, and there were so many of them, news of this weeks shows had certainly spread. But then afterwards, and I…

Today was the reason we were invited to KitaIbaraki, to give a Genki speech to all the teachers in the city – hundreds of them! The place was very posh and about as formal as you can imagine (i.e. as it’s Japan, very formal). All the teachers, Head Teachers and PTA heads were there, as…