Daily Archives: October 13, 2007

A welcome return to what I know

When I went to France to experience life as a language student, I was hoping to find some insights that might help my own English school here in Nagaoka. In fact it actually confirmed many of the things that I already knew: small classes are good, sentence frames (as can be found in the one [...]

Haruna

Everyone has a favorite student. Haruna is mine. She is a hard working married woman who works at a university as an advisor and aid to foreign students. She is also a very internationally-minded person because she went to school as a child and teenager in Scotland. She knows what culture shock is. When she [...]