Hello, Gavin here. We’ve just received our own soap box here at Smith’s School of English Kyobashi. I’ve been working here for about 2 years now and as time passes I continue to enjoy the relaxed, professional environment more and more. Kyobashi is the location of the Smith’s School of English franchise system head office, [...]
Smith’s School of English has several vacation periods each year and this year the Golden Week Holiday, which for most Japanese employees corresponds to the first week of May, started about a week earlier for the Smith franchisees. It turns out that this was a blessing as I wanted to go to Hawaii and the [...]
Okamoto is located in Higashi-Nadaku of Kobe, Japan. It is where I have my Smith’s School of English. It is very nice place to live and work. Okamoto is famous for its many bakeries and confectioneries offering a multitude of delicious candies, pastries, breads and cakes. I often have to stop myself from too often [...]
Today is Sunday and I was looking at my email and suddenly the phone rang. “Who could be calling me on this what should be a day off” I thought. Turns out it was Mark Smith, Smith’s School of English founder calling. He said that he was just about to leave for the yacht harbor [...]
Smith’s School of English Lesson at Kyobashi May 22 by MW ET- From the Smith’s School of English One Point Series I have these 2 students (1 green level/1 red level) quite frequently. They enjoy being classmates, it helps their confidence and almost always arrange the same class together. I know that they go to [...]
スミス英会話奈良西大寺校の講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら A couple of days ago I received a call from Gavin to let me know that one of my students had called up the head office to quit my school from July of this year, but that during that phone call she went on and on with nothing but praise about me and the [...]
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Today`s student was a man to man, pink but with a hint of orange. ET The student actually started off the lesson in very good spirits saying that she had seen someone in her gym who looked like me and wondered if it had been me or not. Lo and behold we do both go [...]
Japan is getting more and more Western each and every day but no matter what it will always be Japan and as such they have a different way of doing things. At times they might infuriate us but we have two choices – change them or change ourselves. At present the Japanese population is about [...]
I just got back from the (10-month-old) grocery store across the street. Its opening was a long awaited event after a long-standing discount electronics store closed and the building’s owner spent an entire year revamping the location and gathering new tenants. A gym opened on the 1st and 2nd floor, and an internet-cafe-amusement-hobby-”something” opened on [...]
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It was the first time for me to meet this student. She is a green level. Prior to this lesson to she had just taken a class with another teacher. ET – You don’t even lift a finger From the Smith’s School of English One Point Series I asked the student whether she lived with [...]