Daily Archives: June 9, 2007

A Lost Dress Shirt

June 9, 2007 – 11:24 pm

My school is in a 7 storey building. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors are for businesses, the remaining floors are for residents. I’m situated on the 4th floor. Most of the residents on the upper floors are salaried workers and a few students. A few weeks ago, it was a [...]

By Craig Drayton | Posted in English School Articles | Comments (0)

It’s a Family Affair

June 9, 2007 – 6:32 pm

Through the years, I have had students come and go for all different reasons. Some join my school are through word and mouth.
Some years ago, I had one student who joined and then a week later introduced her friend, who in turn introduced her daughter and finally her father joined too. The [...]

By Craig Drayton | Posted in English School Articles | Comments (0)

Common Experiences Can Be the Source of a Nice Laugh!

June 9, 2007 – 5:18 pm

In my lesson yesterday my student (doctor and his wife) shared our “bad experiences” with a particular American car maker’s cars. It seems that we had exactly the same kinds of troubles: power windows that stopped working, air conditioning that broke multiple times, especially just before the hottest season, and transmission problems. [...]

By Al Bartle | Posted in English School Articles, SSE Okamoto Corner, rewarding job change | Comments (0)

Flower Power

June 9, 2007 – 2:04 am

One of my students walked in the classroom last week and gave me a flower! When I asked why, she said there was no particular reason; she was just walking by a florist and thought she’d buy a flower for her teacher that day! After class, everyone was asking me about the nicely-wrapped flower on [...]

By Wendy | Posted in SSE Kyobashi Corner | Comments (0)