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Shower Thoughts
— I always come up with my best and most interesting ideas in the shower. Unfortunately, I never write them down. Sometimes I am lucky enough to remember them. Today, two things came up. 1. Do...
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Why Japanese kids think they are learning English.
— For one of my first lessons, I asked the students to get into groups and try to think about why they are studying English. These are some of the most common answers from 18...
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Naughty Student!
— Was teaching today and during the class there was this one kid that wouldn’t shut up. After a few interruptions the J.T.E asked him to quieten down, but he wasn’t having any of that....
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Teaching alone again!
— Had two classes by myself again, kids are pretty damn noisy, but as they were second years they weren’t as bad as the third year lot I had by myself my first day at...
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Sports Day / Inahama Junior High School
— Sports day wasn’t too bad. Spend most of my time helping out setting up and cleaning up. I was the judge in the Tug of War competition (my team lost) which was quite interesting....