Category Archives: rewarding job change

Smith’s School of English Joint HANAMI 2010

April 4, 2010 – 7:03 pm

Wow! What a great time! Sunday we were blessed with wonderful weather here in KANSAI. And this was perfect for enjoying the wonderful cherry blossoms in the Osaka Jo Park. We were unable to stake out our usual spot next to the outer moat but did grab a very large spot across the walkway from [...]

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Electronics – Future???

April 1, 2010 – 1:16 am

As many of you know, I used to work in the electronics industry. I worked as an engineer and manager for Alpine Electronics, Oki Electric and Mitsubishi Electric in the US and Japan. Recently John Coleman and I have been making many videos and in-class lessons for our students and for Smith’s Schools in general [...]

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The Greatest Reward of All – 1 Year On

February 28, 2010 – 10:44 pm

I have been the franchisee and teacher of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 for one year today!!!!!!!! I have always loved languages, especially English, so it is really rewarding being able to earn my living teaching my favourite language at my own English conversation school. I always enjoy my lessons with my very special students, [...]

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Teachers Say “Thank You”

February 18, 2010 – 12:03 am

Valentine’s Day is always a humble experience for Smith’s Eikaiwa Nakamozu and Smith’s School of English Sakai Higashi teachers. As we all know there is strong culture of gift giving in Japan and Valentines is no exception. We received many delicious chocolate sweets for which we are very grateful. Some of them were even homemade, yummy! I [...]

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スミス英会話高円寺 Great Feedback

February 16, 2010 – 7:01 pm

I had my fourth lesson with a student who started man to man (one on one) lessons at my Smith’s School of English in Koenji (スミス英会話高円寺 ) last Saturday week. The original purpose for her to commence English lessons at my monthly pay English conversation school (英会話月謝制) was that she had a job interview coming [...]

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Teamwork Works!

January 23, 2010 – 6:41 pm

Smith’s School of English – Okamoto Last week John of the Kawanishi school and I (Okamoto School) helped each other to distribute flyers. Though we started at 7:30 a.m. the time went so fast as we enjoyed chatting during the time. The funny thing is that I think just our talking while we worked made [...]

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スミス英会話鶴橋校　クリスマス2009年：Tsuruhashi’s merry little Christmas!

December 28, 2009 – 6:03 am

ビデオ：To watch the video of the Christmas party, please click HERE Mike and myself had big expectations for our first Christmas party at Smith’s School of English, Tsuruhashi. They consisted of a fun filled evening where we could savor new found friendships,and delight ourselves in listening to the continued development of our students ability in [...]

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Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi, Okamoto and Kawanishi’s 2009 Joint Christmas Party

December 21, 2009 – 8:38 pm

Smith’s School of English’s 2009 Christmas party was held on December 13th at Capall Uisce Irish Pub in Nishinomiya Kitaguchi. Tsukaguchi,Okamoto and Kawanishi schools joined the party. 26 people including students, teachers, family members and friends attended. It was a lot of fun. When the party began to swing, we played a game named “White [...]

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スミス英会話鶴橋校：ハイキング明日香（飛鳥）2009年：Tsuruhashi team goes to Asuka (Part 2)

October 17, 2009 – 3:33 pm

スミス英会話鶴橋校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら In a previous blog, I mentioned how Smith’s School of English, Tsuruhashi had visited the township of Asuka, and how we had stopped off for a superb lunch at a local restaurant. The owner of the restaurant then proceeded to explain in detail about the history of this area, and one of our students, [...]

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スミス英会話鶴橋校：Tsuruhashi team goes to Asuka (Part 1)

October 10, 2009 – 8:43 pm

スミス英会話鶴橋校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら To see a cool video of our trip please click HERE ビデオはこちら One of our students, Yoshio, has an incredible knowledge of both the history and geography of the Kansai region. He is forever hiking around various areas in his quest to see and experience new places and people. So when we decided to [...]

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