Tag Archives: Smith’s School of English Okamoto

Autumn in Japan and This Year’s Maple (紅葉) Color Change Event

Autumn is my favourite season in Japan.   Like Canada, Japan has Maple trees (紅葉 or Momiji) with leaves that change to beautiful colors in autumn and are a lovely sight to enjoy alone or with others.  Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校), my English conversation school  (英会話スクール) in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture [...]

At Smith’s “TEAM” Really Does Happen!

This week, which was quite busy with a few trials, walk-in inquiries and the usual full load of lessons, I got a special surprise.  When I called in to ask about a student’s lesson, I was informed that a student who had taken a trial at Smith’s School of English -Fukushima (スミス英会話福島校)had decided to join [...]

Even more working together

As Al from Smith’s School of English, Okamoto mentioned in an earlier post, we have been helping each other distribute flyers for both his school and mine, Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校. In addition to this, we are now working on a series of TOEIC+ listening excercises on ssejapan’s youtube channel. You can see our [...]

Students and Teachers Helping Each Other

At Smith’s School of English in Japan, we have wonderful students. They are all so nice! Al from Smith’s School of English Okamoto and I from Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi are very lucky to have some students (2 sisters from the Tsukaguchi school) help us with our postings on the English Smith’s School of [...]

Smith’s School of English Joint Christmas Event

Smith’s School of English events are lots of  fun, both for the students and the teachers. I always look forward to the next event, whether it is one for only my school,  Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi(スミス英会話塚口校), or a joint one with other Smith’s schools.  The next event is a Christmas one and I am doing it jointly with two other schools, [...]

Smith’s School of English 2009 Joint Barbecue Event

To see a video of this event, please click  Smith’s School of English Joint BBQ 2009 . One of the things that I really like about my job teaching English in Japan is holding special events for my students. Joint events are especially fun. For students, it gives them the opportunity to meet teachers and students from [...]

Movies with a Message

I started receiving emails from Participant Media.  I began receiving their newsletter after I saw the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, on global warming. It has information on very interesting matters. This month the newsletter introduced several movies and books which touch on socially important issues that we as human beings need to be aware of. [...]

Valentine’s Day 2009 at Smith’s School of English- Okamoto

For those who are not familiar with the way Valentine’s Day works in Japan, let me say it is so much better than in the states where the guys have to go out and get chocolates and/or flowers for their wives and girlfreinds.  In Japan the girls give the guys in their lives (almost all [...]

何よりも自信を要するConfidence is what is most needed!

Ok, so what is most needed in just about everything we do?  It is absolutely, without a doubt, confidence! Look around you today and try to find what is missing and perhaps the root cause of the economic downturn plaguing the world.  It is the lack of confidence. Confidence to buy things, to start new [...]

神戸ルミナリエ Kobe Luminarie

Having a Smith’s School of English franchise in Kobe has a lot of benefits beyond the obvious.  Kobe is a very clean and beautiful city which has some great sights to see and holds some fun events too.  Two weeks ago my wife and I went to Kobe Sannomiya to view the beautiful lights of [...]

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