Got up at 8AM. Checked my mail. Couldn’t see for tears streaming down my face so went back to bed. It’s not fun having a cold and being in the Genki House was making my asthma bad. Not a fun day. Then in the evening a big meeting to plan out all the future projects…

And here it is, it’s now freezing season!!!! It was sooo cold today – I had to get my long trousers and jumpers out! I wish it could be warm for the other 6 months of the year as well…. Spent the day doing prep work and being full of cold! Bring back Summer….

I only get my snail mail once in a blew moon and it’s mostly bills. But this time was cool as I also got my new mobile phone and some great music CDs to use on the DVDs. These should certainly spice things up a bit! I also spent a lot of the time setting…

Had a quite relaxing morning, a nice lunch and a nice drive back to Ehime. Driving through the mountains and then island hopping across the Shimanami Kaido is just amazing, some of the best scenery in the World – if only Japan could have this weather all year round! Then a quick call in to…

Today’s show wasn’t till the afternoon – great! So I got a bit of time to catch up with a bit of sleep, and write an article about teaching 6th graders. The very Genki ALT in town, Tori, has been doing a great with the kids and in 45 minutes they pretty much nailed all…

Today’s 3 and a half hour presentation was sponsored and organised by the Tottori Prefectural Education Center – quite posh people! In the morning were talks by 2 Japanese teachers who cleared up a lot of the basics, and also opened enough lines of enquiry for me to base my presentation on. So the in…