Daily Archives: June 5, 2007

Hey it’s Wednesday and Another Fun Day at Smith’s Okamoto!

I’ve got two students returning after holidays today. One was doing her on-the-job training as a public nurse and the other just got back from the Netherlands for a 10-day trip. I am sure that both will have some interesting stories to share and my student returning from the Netherlands will have some [...]

My first Private Student

My first Private Student

After I’d been in Japan for about a year, I decided that it was time for a change of scenery – figuratively speaking. Not that I hadn’t enjoyed my time spent in Japan up until that point, I just felt that I’d reached a fork in the road and neither branching [...]

Enter: Smith’s School of English

Foreigners in White

I’ve been living in Japan for over three years now and had thought – up until now - that I’d seen just about everything. One early morning last September, I was about to be proven wrong.

Before last year, I had been maintaining the life of a night owl. Work late, sleep [...]