This year, I bought Daruma doll which is a Japanese good luck charm. For those of you not familiar with the Japanese Daruma doll, you can read about it by clicking here. I have set a 2012 goal for my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi and filled in one eye of my [...]
Hello all! (^.^)/ December is under way and it’s almost the end the year. December is quite a busy month for Japanese. I wrote a post on this last year. I invite you to read my post by clicking here. At my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi in Amagasaki, a great year [...]
I just finished my last English lesson of the day at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi. Today was a great day. It’s the rainy season here in Japan now and it’s been raining a lot since last week, but today the weather was good. I took advantage of the nice weather and some free time [...]
I love sweets. I don’t smoke or drink, but I need something sweet everyday. Toast with peanut butter and sweet jam, delicious muffins from COSTCO and home-brewed Starbucks coffee with a tasty, slightly sweet, creamy powder called Creap, sugar and honey are examples of sweet things that I enjoy at home. On days off I [...]
This week has been quite an eventful week here in Tsukaguchi, Amagasaki, Hyogo Perefecture, the location of my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校). First we had snow on Monday which I earlier wrote about here. Then in the very early hours of this morning (around 2:15 am) a fire erupted [...]
Today we had snow in Tsukaguchi, Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, the location of my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校). Snow is rare here and even rarer is snow that doesn’t melt right away because the temperature is usually above freezing here in Tsukaguchi, even in the wintertime. However today it’s colder [...]
Yesterday (Sunday) was a day off from my great job teaching English in Japan to fantastic students at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話塚口校) in Tsukaguchi (塚口), Amagasaki (尼崎市), Hyogo Prefecture (兵庫県). As usual, I spent the day with my wife and daughter. We had a nice late breakfast at the ACTA Nishinomiya Starbucks Coffee store in Nishinomiya’s shopping [...]
I think that learning proper English pronunciation (英語の発音) is important for Japanese people. Not knowing how to properly pronounce words can lead to them not being understood by English speakers. One of the things that I like about my job teaching English in Japan is being able to teach them proper English pronunciation. One [...]
At Smith’s School of English, we know that a team of like-minded individuals working together can always achieve much more than any one individual can alone. We believe that together, everybody achieves more. Together Everybody Achieves More = T.E.A.M. We believe in T.E.A.M.! We are the largest English conversation school franchise system in Japan 100% [...]
Teaching English in Japan, living in Japan and being married to a Japanese woman has given me the opportunity to learn quite a bit about Japanese culture. One of the things that I’ve learned is that December is a busy month for Japanese people, including my students at my English conversation (英会話) school, Smith’s School of [...]
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