OK, that was one too many beers last night! Today I traveled over a thousand miles, from Oita in Kyushu, to Okayama then to Tokyo, and I must admit I didn’t enjoy one minute of the ride!!! But for the actual workshops themselves I flicked the switch, became genki and really enjoyed them. It’s my 3rd year doing this workshop for the Okayama Education Center and the teachers are great here. So this time we got the group split in to two, one group of teachers who were new to Genki English ( hence it was the same workshop as yesterday) and another group who had seen the GE workshops before, including a few teachers from Tuesday and Wednesday. That was such a great experience, being able right from the start to do new games and ideas with having everyone fully confident, up on the aims of the subject and and on the same page! We did some cool new games, and some of the higher level themes, plus things like the card game, which they really enjoyed! We finished on the “Under the Sea” theme, and instead of the usual “Wow, I never saw things like that before” type ending it was a “Cool, that’s some nice new ideas I’ve learnt”, which was really nice and people were asking lots of cool questions, which is always good!

Then the rest of the train journey North!