Category Archives: SSE Tsuruhashi Corner

Tis the season to get shots…

December 2, 2007 – 11:24 pm

Tis the season to get shots, fa lalalala lalalala.
Not a tequila or a B52 shot, though they might not be a bad idea either.
No, I’m talking about the injection variety of shot that don’t necessarily make us feel warm and giddy as the previously scribed shots.
They do, however, give us a little peace of [...]

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Neighborhood Networking

November 7, 2007 – 6:51 pm

When I look back, I can recall several times when Mark Smith mentioned the importance of utilizing business relationships with local establishments near and around your school. The first time he mentioned it to me was about 6 years ago when I was just getting started in the system. It was a tip [...]

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Shopping Anyone?

September 29, 2007 – 9:29 pm

I recently wrote about my experience going through the curriculum training with Gavin at the Smith School of English Tsuruhashi a couple of weeks ago. It was a bit of a refresher course in terms of the routines and whole new experience with regard to the new items and all the expanded material. [...]

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Field of Dreams

July 16, 2007 – 9:00 pm

Growing up in three of Canada’s provincial capitals Winnipeg, Manitoba, Regina, Saskatchewan, and Edmonton, Alberta, all I knew and cared about was hockey. Whether it was winter, spring, summer, or autumn didn’t really matter. If we could get enough people and find a rink or street, we played. It was that simple. [...]

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Growing Stronger…

June 27, 2007 – 9:10 pm

Last Friday, I had a big observation lesson (kenkyu jugyou) at one of the Junior High Schools that I teach at and as usual the stress nearly killed me, but it made me stronger. First, here’s a little background information. Observation lessons are quite common in Japanese Schools. The purpose of the lesson [...]

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Hot Summer Days in Japan

June 12, 2007 – 5:27 pm

I’ve been living in Japan for about 8 years now and running my Smith’s school franchise for most of that, but I can remember only one summer here. There are a couple of reasons for this. The first and most obvious reason is that [...]

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Catching up

May 18, 2007 – 10:43 pm

Hey, it’s Mike from Smith’s School of English Tsuruhashi checking in for the first time and I’m feeling good…. Why????
Well, let’s see… First, I had had a couple of things on my mind today and a few things I had to deal with regarding the Tsuruhashi school. So, I called up Mark and he [...]

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