Well one more week down. I didn’t start this week in a particularly positive frame of mind (and not just because it was the first week back). However, pretty quickly events that transpired that took my mind off my own problems. I make that sound a lot more dramatic than it actually was. The problems [...]
Today’s comic isn’t entirely accurate. Things didn’t quite get as bad as that but I did lose the last week of updates due to computer problems. It all started last Monday when, for reasons unbeknownst, my computer decided it wasn’t going to work any more. Actually, it’s been grumpy for the past few months now and [...]
Tomorrow marks the beginning of English Group. English Group is the precursor to a proper English club at Ichiko. Officially setting up a club at a Japanese high school (or at least at my Japanese high school) is as difficult as setting one up at university. You need to have a certain number of people, [...]
OK, well it appears I may have got myself a date with one of the students at school. Since I don’t speak very good English I’m not entirely sure what I agreed to do. All I know is that last week one of the students was asking the Japanese Teacher of English (JTE) about something [...]
Well I’ve been teaching for two weeks now and I feel like it’s time I gave you all a bit of an update on how that’s going. I will begin by saying that I teach at the Sakai Municipal Technical High School, or in Japanese さかいしりつ こうぎょう こうとうがっこう (hereafter ‘Ichiko’). This is my first time [...]