It’s that time of the year again! Everyone is talking about plans for the special day and all I hear is chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate! Not that I have anything against chocolate or Valentine’s day, on the contrary, I love both of them! But for the whole last week, every time I walked past [...]
I’ve noticed that every year around the end of Jan and beginning of Feb, the local supermaket I frequent will have a special corner for dried soybeans and sushi rolls. The big Chinese characters on the promotion tag mention some sort of festival, but it took me a while to finally decipher what they meant [...]
“So, anything exciting?” I asked my 4pm student as I walked her into the classroom in Kyobashi school. “Well, I finally decided the departure date for New Zealand!” she beamed. It’s not every day that students tell you exciting news like this, and she apparently wanted to share this with me, so we kept the [...]
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 I was getting the lesson plan and picture cards ready for my 7pm class when the door bell rang once and in came the cheerful lady. “Hey, how is everything going?” I gestured her in and moved to the fridge to get her usual glass of orange juice. “Pretty good! I had a very [...]
When my regular weekday student showed up on a Saturday afternoon at Kyobashi school, I hardly recognized him. Apart from the thick black overcoat, his whole outfit changed from total business to absolute casual! We’d only seen him in his formal business attire since he usually came here right after work, so it was nice [...]
Isn’t it great that in this job we get to meet so many different people and have so many opportunities to make new friends? This is my fifth year teaching at Smith’s School of English Kyobashi, and teaching here is not just a job any more, it has become a very important part of my [...]
I hadn’t seen my 1pm student at Kyobashi school for ages as she took a leave for a few months and it is always nice to see students coming back, she was apparently also very happy to be back here at Smith’s School of English and I was glad to see she was in a [...]
For most of my students this evening, it was the last lesson of the year and everyone was excited about the coming holiday. So I decided to have a little chat about holiday plans with my 8pm students before moving on to the loop. Since I am not doing anything special myself, I was glad [...]
It is really quite scary how fast time passes! Here I am in Japan, for 5 years now, and, approaching 30!!! Yes, I just spent my 29th birthday last Tuesday at Kyobashi. Well, I didn’t get a full-on birthday party, which isn’t my style anyway, I was congratulated by my closest colleague and handed a [...]
I had a high level student the other evening. Since this student had been with us for nearly 10 years, he had gone through most of the curriculum more than once, but as he told us a while ago, English is one of his hobbies and he is just happy to be able to chat. [...]
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