Today is our first day back to work after a short holiday. It’s our first year here and we are still developing, so we decided to keep our holiday short and close to home. I am a huge fan of onsens (hot springs). I love everything about them, especially the deeply relaxing feeling of bathing [...]
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ Recently I have been trying to learn how to use YouTube and some software to create fun videos introducing things about my life teaching English in Japan at Smiths School of English. I really enjoy my work here at Smiths School of English and I hope to create more videos that show [...]
スミス英会話奈良西大寺校の講師が書いた記事。日本語はこちらへ I had to include this picture on my Soapbox! This is such an amazing picture of the sunrise over Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture! After seeing this picture I really envy Ed and Chiharu over there at Smiths School of English in Ohtsu, Shiga Prefecture! Tonight our class began with…
There’s nothing like a nice break to refresh our minds and bodies. This Obon my wife and I spent some quality time with our newborn child and I was able to get my new TV set up properly with my computer so I was happy. Sitting in our so-called theater room watching Die Hard 4 [...]
As I start back to work tonight after a week of Summer vacation I feel extremely rested as I was able to sleep in each morning and stay in my air conditioned apartment watching the Beijing Olympics during day time hours, although I took a couple of day trips to local areas before the games [...]
I’ve just finished enjoying the Smith’s Obon holiday. While I really enjoy working at my school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi, it was great to take a break. I watched a bunch of movies at home on Cable TV, went out shopping with family, went to my sports center, TIPNESS to do weight training and [...]
I was just over at Hub Pages, reading comments to a story by fellow franchisee Derek at Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話 塚口). Someone posted a link to another soapbox story, written by Helena at Nakamozu (スミス英会話 なかもず). It was a great read for me, as I am expecting our first child very, very soon. Her comments about family [...]
Hi everyone! Remember my recent posting entitled “Okanagan Wines at Hanshin Department Store”? The South Okanagan region in British Columbia is an area of stunning, pristine and unique natural beauty and its arid, desert climate is particularly well suited to grape and fruit production. In recent years, Ice Wine, properly spelled Eis Wein due to [...]
I wrote most of this as a comment to a story posted by Derek (from スミス英会話塚口), but I think I should share it with all of you too! We are very excited to be having a baby in Japan. Japan is a place I can feel safe every day, at any time of day or [...]
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