September 14, 2009 – 1:23 am
When we first explored the Kobe 神戸市 area as possibly somewhere to live when we moved to Japan, Kitano-cho 北野町 immediately struck us as a very special sort of place.
By John C
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September 2, 2009 – 10:09 pm
In the “Let’s Talk” Question and Answer Item in the Smith’s School of English スミス英会話 curriculum, Question 8 asks: “Have you ever complained in a restaurant?” I have not yet had a student at my English school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi, answer this in the affirmative, and I can’t remember complaining in a restaurant myself (at least [...]
By John C
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August 23, 2009 – 11:46 pm
I have just finished reading the “Rabbit” tetralogy by John Updike. At over 1500 pages, this had been a marathon read. I had read the first of the four novels, Rabbit Run, as a young man, but had not read any other of his works since, before I tackled reading the whole set a little earlier [...]
By John C
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August 20, 2009 – 3:51 am
Ever since my first visit to Japan, almost 20 years ago, I have always loved visiting the country’s great traditional hot springs 温泉. My first visit to an onsen was in Nita , in Shimane-ken 島根県. Although I had read much of the etiquette of the onsen, I was lucky enough, on that occasion [...]
By John C
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Two apparently unrelated events happened to me yesterday that really got me thinking about my recent huge changes in life: coming to live in Japan and buying a Smith’s School of English franchised school. First, I visited Smith’s School of English head office in Kyobashi for an owners’ seminar, where I found the friendliness and support [...]
By John C
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I’m sure you all know that Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has called a general election for August 30th. This means that we will see numerous local politicians and their supporters making speeches and handing out flyers at the stations where we are handing out flyers for our English schools. (Interesting use of present continuous). [...]
By John C
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BMX flying One aspect of Nishinomiyahama 西宮浜, where I have lived for almost a year and a half, that I have not mentioned before in this series is the variety of sports and leisure activities that go on there almost throughout the year. There is always so much going on both on land and [...]
By John C
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April 16, 2009 – 10:06 pm
Two of my great passions are language and photography. Recently I have managed ro combine them by using some of my photographs as subjects for free conversation classes at my school, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話 川西校. I have always checked with the students beforehand; they have always agreed, and then looked at and discussed my photos with [...]
With the change of season, there has been quite a lot written recently about the comfort of various items of Smith’s School of English promotional clothing. What I want to stress is just how important it is to wear these items, and not just when handing out flyers. Last Friday I went into my favourite [...]
By John C
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