Up until two years ago it was a case of travelling around in the cheapest way possible, including overnight buses (not nice!), then when people started paying for me to fly around the country it was a total luxury!! But recently I haven’t travelled too far and have been mainly using the Shinkansen, so today on the plane to Tokyo it actually felt really tiny! But then again I had booked a ticket on the Skymark budget airline and it was late as usual.

But I got into Tokyo and had a meeting with SSI about the upcoming Kids English events. This year they want to try some new things and as I really didn’t have any ideas myself I figured it’d be better to chat in person rather than via email. Just looking at the material again after a while, it is really good, and I’m really looking forward to presenting it to more people!

Then it was on the bus to Chiba, and if you ever have to catch a bus from Tokyo station, make sure you have plenty of time as it’s the most confusing bus system in the country!!

But I got to Choushi, met the organisers of tomorrow’s event and had a very nice tea.

Richard Graham

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