I learnt quite a lot today! Today’s school was a bit special and quite secret ( you’ll notice it’s not on the schedule) because for the last 2 years they’ve had one of the other Elementary School experts helping their school out. I was quite surprised to find that the head of that particular publisher…

As it’s back to term time now teachers only have time for workshops after classes have finished. Which is good as that means I can do some stuff with the kids beforehand to show the teachers just how well the songs and ideas work in practice. I usually do this by getting all the kids…

Oooo, this is a big typhoon! Well not really, when I first came to Japan everyone started talking about typhoons and really I didn’t think they are much bigger than the storms we have back home. But this morning I went out for a carton of milk and couldn’t stand up on the way back!…

So it’s my weekly day off again, and what happens??? Yes, it’s raining! This is beyond a joke now, basically everyday I’ve had off this Summer has rained! Today I had planned to go to the Space World Theme Park for a change, but it’s not that much fun in the rain! So in the…

I spent the entire day today backing up the GE data. It’s crazy the amount of data I produce! Plus everything has to be securely backed up and accessible, which can take a long time. So overall today I had two computers moving a couple of hundred gigs around. In the evening I went out…

First day back at computer work and I got a ton of stuff done!! One thing I’ve been working on is having photos of the gestures to all the songs on the site. Each song has it’s own online teaching video, but for people who come to the site for the first time I think…