Daily Archives: December 13, 2007

Kobe Charity Festival

I met a student manning a booth at the Kobe Global Charity Festival on the 21st of October. She’s raising money for a women’s university dormitory, her latest in many energetic achievements in Afghanistan. I was amazed at the number of volunteer projects in my area, it seems like Japan has most of the world [...]

A fond welcome back

As I started serving students drinks today in the lounge, one lady came in who looked really familiar but I couldn’t quite place her face. I thought about it for a while and when she finally entered my class, I remembered where I had seen her before. She’d been a regular student at [...]

Another Recordbreaker

The final end-of-year blitz is on. Fellow teacher Mark and I distributed 600 flyers this morning in 2 hours. I am not a morning person at all, but this was a beautiful morning!
jim

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