Plastic toy food is a common request for teachers of small groups, and I’ve managed to find some! So I put up an order form on the site today. I’m not sure how many of these I’ll be able to provide, but if you’re interested, click here for Plastic Food!! I also did the November…

Today was a great school. And it started off with a great set of teachers. The gig today was a show in the afternoon and then a teaching workshop afterwards. However the teacher who I’d been in touch with also asked me to do a demo lesson for just her class in the fourth period….

This new Maruzen store has to be one of the prime real estate locations in the entire World, it is literally right in front of the main entrance to Tokyo station! My presentation was at 11:20 and in the beginning there weren’t that many people present, and I was a bit worried that the typhoon…

It was my day off today and it was sunny – yeah! So days off in September call for fruit picking. First off we went up to pick some grapes but apparently they’d all been blown away in the typhoon. So we went fig picking instead which was good, although the trees were very low…

Today was clearing up all the loose ends before I head off to Hong Kong this week. First up was finishing off the game software for the MEXT pilot school, there are now quite a lot of pilot IT schools who use GE, I should maybe think about doing workshops for them! Then I did…

Today I attended a presentation by Tom Merner, who has done a lot of work with elementary school English activities. Tom is really on the ball, is a great bloke, really knows his stuff and gave a great presentation. He started off by going through the guidelines. And he was very much focussing on the…