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 [...]
The other day I had some time between classes at my English school, スミス英会話天神橋筋六丁目 so I went shopping in nearby Umeda (梅田). It is just 2 stops on the Tanimachi line (谷町線). There is a lot of construction going on! The recently completed new JR Osaka station (JR 大阪駅) is really amazing. Also, betwen Yodobashi [...]
Yesterday one of my favourite hang outs in Koenji The Clurakan Irish Pub http://theirishrover.info.pub.html held a charity event DON’T GIVE UP TOHOKU which although we had torrential rain for most of the day still managed to attract quite a large turn out It was scheduled to kick off at 6pm with youthful guitarist vocalist Daiki [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday night (March 26th) Smith’s School of English Koenji had a dinner party at Restaurant Rainbow which is within 2 minutes walk of the school. Twenty-six of us gathered at 7:30pm at the restaurant & within minutes the atmosphere was buzzing with excitement as students caught up with other English learners and met new ones as [...]
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, [...]
Here we go again…we’ve just finished the first decade of the 21st century and I for one am really excited about this year. Smith’s 英会話 Hirakata has quite a few surprises planned for 2011 so be sure to keep your eyes open. I’m the kind of guy who likes to keep things fresh which is why [...]
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 [...]
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