Author Archives: Richard Graham

Tottori Prefectural Education Center Presentation

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…

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Tsunoi Elem School, NHK and JET quiz night

After last night I was so glad when today turned into fantastic, glorious weather! It was also so luxurious being in a hotel, I think this maybe the first time an elementary school has put us up in a hotel! Got to Tsunoi Elementary School and although it is Tottori city, it felt like a…

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Cold in Tottori & Thanks to Saga JETs!

Finished work at two and started work at 7 (it’s strange waking up at that time of the morning, I didn’t realise it was so light then!). There was a post on the discussion board asking about the Theory behind Genki English and I realised there isn’t much about it on the site – I…

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Taking it back & Living in Okinawa

Took my computer back today! When I bought it I said I wanted a fast laptop to do video editing on, but the one I bought, a Dunamis, wouldn’t work well except when it was plugged into the mains! Not too good for a laptop! But full marks to the computer store, Applied, who were…

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Checking my computer

Tomorrow is the final day before I have to decide whether to take my new computer back. So last night I spent till 7AM trying to do as much of the high end editing and animation that I can to see how it compares to my older computer. And to be honest for the amount…

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On the road again

I travel too much! I had two days solid to get some editing down, and more important to get into a “video editing” frame of mind. And today I have to change to be in “travelling mode”. But I really need to get some time to get some new things produced!! : ( So I’m…

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