I have a very strong affection for today’s school as when I first took Genki English out of Ehime and was going round Fukuoka on a bicycle, in a typhoon, cold calling on schools asking to do shows and seminars today’s school was the first school that put their trust in me and asked me to do a show for them!! That was in September 2000, so it was great to go back today and show them how big Genki English has become and how much I really appreciate the support they offered me in the beginning. The teachers were great and it was a cool workshop. Then afterwards the Head teacher asked if I could help out with some classes later on in the year. I don’t usually do normal classes as the amount of requests would be crazy, but for this school no problem at all!

Then a quick lunch and off to today’s other school in a different city! This school was also really good and the teacher in charge had actually taken the time to meet up at Starbucks for a chat a few weeks ago. She specifically asked for “What do you do?” ( I hadn’t done that for a while and was pleasantly surprised at how much fun it is!) and topics for 6th graders. The other teachers also had lots of questions, so it was really good. After the lesson the teacher wanted some help with doing an email exchange programme with China. In the GE projects I always recommend epals.com, but today it only showed up 3 suitable schools in China! Hmm, that could cause a few problems!

So after 5.5 hours of workshops it was back home to get mail work done. But I was really, really happy to be able to go back to that first school today, it really did make me see how far Genki English has come, how far I have to go, and how much support people have given me all the way through, for which I’m very grateful.