Daily Archives: January 16, 2008

Smith’s Otsu Event Night #1

January 16, 2008 – 8:13 pm

On Saturday December 15th we had our first event night at Smith’s Otsu. 6 students and 2 coaches attented. We played “The Kanji Game”, with 1 student at the white board and the other 2 students trying to explain how to draw a kanji on the board. After about 20 minutes, we pitted the teams [...]

By Edward | Posted in SSE Ohtsu Corner | Comments (0)

Introduction

January 16, 2008 – 7:17 pm

Hello! My name is Edward Iwaskow and I am the new teacher at Smith’s Otsu as of December 2007. I live in Otsu-shi, about 15 minutes bike ride from the school. I have been in Japan since January 2007, and I really love it here. My hometown is a small city on the west coast [...]

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One point

January 16, 2008 – 4:19 am

The one point I used to end the lesson was ‘Pardon?’ I wrote this up on the board and one of the students had heard of this and already knew what it meant.
When she went to say it, she said it perfectly… if she was going to be going to be speaking to someone very [...]

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

Blatantly Meticulous

January 16, 2008 – 3:53 am

It’s been commented that working in the franchise schools is a whole other world to head office in Kyobashi. After having a worked a number of different schools, I’d say that this is generally true. A one class school obviously has a different atmosphere to a 5 class school, due to the sheer number of [...]

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