Usually the bookstore gigs are all about getting up early, lots of running around and fretting about time slots. Today I walked into the Osaka Nellies’ office at 11 o’clock and they were like “Hello, yeah we’ve got loads of time” and were totally relaxed! Which was just as well because everything went fine. Oxford University Press had a presentation first, which was pretty good, mind you their kids videos cost 10,000 yen each!! The GE DVD at 4,000 is well cheap in comparison! My presentation was cool. There were lots of kids there, which I figured would be really difficult as usually that means I can’t do any explanations. But as it turned out they already knew the songs and were great, listening when I talked to the teachers, then singing very loudly and saying “Tanoshii!!!” at all the right points! (Always good for impressing other teachers of how good the songs are!) The teachers also went mad over the new phonics songs. “Want some stuff to get your kids good at speaking?” , hmmm maybe, “Want some songs for learning letters?” OH, YES PLEASE!!! Very strange the priorities some teachers have! But they really did into the songs, even better than the study groups last year. Could be a big hit! Then a quick meeting about the Genki English show and seminars in Osaka in June, I’ll put lots of details on the website to make this into a massive event! Then on the shinkansen back to Fukuoka.