Today was an interesting school in that when I was looking through their curriculum, I wasn’t cringing every two minutes, there weren’t any mistakes ( a very rare thing!), and there were actually some funky things in there, such as a nice reply to “I want to be a (job name)..”, “Why?” “Because it’s cool”….

Today was a bit of an experiment! Instead of a free one hour workshop at the bookstore, today was a 6 hour workshop charged at 10,000 yen per person. The idea being that people who are serious about improving their teaching techniques would attend, and I wouldn’t have to spend half the time doing the…

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…

The plan was to do a full day yesterday then today get the teachers to actually do some teaching. The idea being they’d have a nice safety net and I could give them lots of feedback now they were in the “it’s OK to make mistakes” frame of mind. I always knew this was going…

Now this is what it’s all about! Instead of just a one or two hour introduction, this is a full on two day set of workshops where I can spend half a day going through the basics and confidence building, then spend the rest of the time showing new techniques and actually letting the teachers…

Bookstore gigs in Fukuoka are always good, with a great bunch of teachers who all know each other and happily I know quite a few of them now as well. Today was the follow up to the CD5 preview gig I did in March. So to start off was When, When, When which they really…