In every prefecture in Japan there is at least one pilot school doing a 3 year research project into Elementary School English. And today we were invited to the Shizuoka school, located right at the base of Mt Fuji. But it was cloudy so we couldn’t see the mountain. First off we did a show…

Nellie’s is a large bookstore in Tokyo that specialises in English Language Teaching materials. They’re well worth looking up if you’re looking for some new materials. Anyway, they invited us to take part in their Autumn tour, and today was the first day in Tokyo. Set up time was 7:30, far too early!! At 9…

Spent the day tidying up, backing up computer data and flying up to Tokyo.

Another prefecture to be checked off the list! Had a workshop today at the ALT Mid Year Conference sponsored by Saga Prefecture Board of Education and the Ministry of Education. It was an absolutely brilliant day and on arrival everyone was very friendly and welcoming! The speech itself was a bit difficult. Rather than just…

When stuff works, it works. When it doesn’t it’s a real hassle!! Today I had the duel problems of having my computer getting so hot that it kept crashing every time I did some video editing, then finding yet more problems with the website. Hopefully for everyone watching the site things should be transparent, it’s…

Today was spent fixing up final edits on the parts of the DVD and then rendering them. My computer has now been working solidly for several days now and I think it’s melting! It’s only 1 cm thick but is getting soooo hot. So I had to put a pack on frozen broccoli under it…