Monthly Archives: November 2009

スミス英会話BBQイベント2009年

On September 27th we had a very nice BBQ Party attended by 29 students, teachers, family members and friends from Okamoto, Tsukaguchi and Kawanishi Schools.  We enjoyed some great barbecued beef, seafood, drinks and two great cakes and great Hawaiian coffee supplied and served by Derek of the Tsukaguchi School. Watch the Video here. These [...]

スミス英会話 高円寺 Temples of Tokyo- Honmonji

Honmonji Temple, in Ikegami, was established by Nichiren (the founder of Nichiren Buddhism) in 1274. It sits on top of a hill some 350 odd steps from street level. There is however an elevator that you can use to reach the top or alternatively you can attain it via a road way. I used the [...]

A Great Two Days Off with my Wife

Monday of this week was a Japanese national holiday, so I was off from my rewarding  job teaching English in Japan at  my English conversation school(英会話スクール), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi(スミス英会話塚口校), located  in Tsukaguchi(塚口), Amagasaki City(尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture(兵庫県), Japan.  I was off on the day before that as well (Sunday), so I had 2 days in [...]

スミス英会話 高円寺 Tokyo National Museum

Last Sunday I visited the Tokyo National Museum to view “Treasures of the Imperial Collections – Splendor of Japanese Art” which was a display of well-known Japanese art, in fact art that the majority of Japanese read and learned about during their school years. Such imperial treasures are shown, in Tokyo, once during an emperor’s [...]

Sumo Time!

スミス英会話大津の日本語のサイトはここです。スミス英会話上新庄校の日本語のサイトはここです。 千晴の部屋はここで す。英会話無料レッスンはここです。 As I am certain most of you already know, I LOVE SUMO! In my opinion, sumo is the greatest combat sport on the planet. Personally, I find most combat sports to be too violent and dangerous. To me, boxing is just a long, drawn out punch fest, WWF style wrestling is scripted [...]

Local Promotion Part 6 : The Smith’s School of English Sweatshirt ! Nothing is more comfortable in November !

Even though the join fee campaign is over and we are entering the final week of November, there are still a good 2 or 3 weeks of productive flyer time left in the year.  Why not get back out there this week and next with your regular flyers and start laying the seeds for the big sales season starting [...]

An Excited Student

Today I taught one of my newer students at my English conversation school(英会話スクール)Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi(スミス英会話塚口校) in Tsukaguchi(塚口), Amagasaki City(尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture(兵庫県), Japan. Before leaving, she mentioned always being excited about going to my school. This was a kind thing of her to say and great to hear! I love hearing things like that from [...]

‘One Point’ is a Gift

スミス英会話大津の日本語のサイトはここです。スミス英会話上新庄校の日本語のサイトはここです。 千晴の部屋はここで す。英会話無料レッスンはここです。 The other day, one of my students from Smith’s School of English Ohtsu (スミス英会話大津校) made me feel very happy. When the student and I were practicing this week’s ‘One Point’ in a class (‘One Point’ is a phrase lesson offered through the ‘Free Online English Lesson‘ on our website) she said, “Now I have [...]

A Kind Invitation from a Student

I love making students happy with my English lessons at my English conversation school(英会話スクール), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi(スミス英会話塚口校) in Tsukaguchi(塚口), Amagasaki City(尼崎市), Japan.  This week, after taking a lesson with me and before leaving, a student said something about taking my lessons and being happy.  Great! She then invited me to come to her house with my [...]

スミス英会話高円寺 YO YO DIETS

This article, which I will use as a “Let’s Talk” English conversation topic , started off as a comment to Jerry’s post but it grew quickly and became too big for a simple comment. The weight reduction business makes a fortune out of people like us who from time to time go on yo yo [...]

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