I was thinking the other day that I should make this in to a real blog, talking about hot news and ideas. The thing is you look at the teaching scene and there isn’t really much going off, except for Dr Krashen losing any sense of credibility on the ETJ list by insisting speaking isn’t…

It was strange waking up in a Japanese room today, it felt like I was back in Ehime. Anyway over breakfast I figured that things were probably going to be like yesterday ( not many people), so instead of a full on whiz through all the CD5 songs I’d just do a small group thing…

Up and early and out to Maruzen Bookstore. Today’s workshop was again in a separate room ( apparently last time old people were complaining about the noise!), it was a smaller group ( 15-20) of people who already knew Genki English and as I have another workshop here next month I figured I’d just do…

I was getting a bit worried this morning! I usually do the Tokyo Bookstore shows in the store itself. But it tends to draw such a big crowd that people from the other departments start complaining! So this time the event was in a different building. And as what probably should have been expected a…

Today is a funny day, it was supposed to be packed with family arriving from the States. But their plane got cancelled, and I now have a whole free day! Which is bad, but means I have a whole day free – ooo. Been updating lots on the site this week, all the themes now…

Yes it is a good as all the hype! Can’t wait to see it again. And now I want to get back to Japan to play the Star Wars game!!! I think I’ll try it out in Tokyo.