The last few days of the year in Tokyo have been very beautiful with clear blue skies & the sun shining, of course it is still cold with temperatures –day time around 7C & night between 2-4C It’s the time of the year I like to get out and visits temples & shrines Last week [...]
During the second half of 2011 Smith’s School of Koenji had three getherings of students family & friends Two were held at Rainbow Koenji Minami & our year end party was held at ban-kan also in Koenji Minami http://ban-kan.com, each of them had 18 or more in attendance & we all had a very wonderful [...]
These puns were sent to me as an unsolicited email I got a good laugh out of them I hope you do too 1.The fattest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but [...]
FOR WORD LOVERS The following was sent to me as an unsolicited email & I hope that you and many of your students will appreciate it as much as I do To write with a broken pencil is pointless. When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate. A thief who stole a calendar [...]
Over the last five or so years I’ve often been asked why I live in Japan when Australia is such a beautiful country with many clean beaches & mountain retreats close at hand. In addition it has a climate that encourages outdoor activities including a large variety of sport such as golf, tennis, cricket, soccer, [...]
Located in Nippori, Tennoji Temple is a very peaceful small secluded temple, no doubt in part because it is located inYanaka cemetery, which by the way has many lovely trees, lots of which are cherry trees that when are in full bloom encourage scores of people to view them & in traditional Japanese fashion sit under [...]
スミス英会話高円寺 Tokyo-Edo Museum “The Edo-Tokyo Museum was founded on March 28,1993, as the place where visitors come to learn more about Tokyo’s history and culture , and which also serves as a projection onto the city and the living of the future. In the Permanent Exhibition area, there can be found original and replicated exhibits, [...]
The Race that Stops a Nation – the Melbourne Cup. Horse racing is referred to as “The Sport of Kings” (Queen Elizabeth II is a ardent follower & owner) Horse racing brings people from all walks of life together placing them on an equal footing.You don’t need to be rich to buy a racehorse as [...]
Over the last few years I have noticed many changes taking place here in Japan. the ever changing skyline, the introduction of many new abbreviated English katakana words (no wonder the Japanese cannot be understood when they travel overseas and use such words thinking that they are everyday English words) and the way women appear to [...]
Last month I decided that I’d go to see the “Masterpieces from the Collecdtion of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur” which is made up of 90 paintings by world reknowned artists. Winterthur is a small town in Switzerland which thanks to the generosity of wealthy art lovers has amassed an outstanding array of works of art. This [...]
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