As a teacher, I sit on one side of the table. Students sit across from me with the hopes that I’ll be able to crack the code for them. What code am I talking about? The code to improving your English. What some people don’t realize is that language is much more than a bunch […]
End of Year in Japan, Smith’s School of English, Sagamihara
Hello from Smith’s School of English in Sagamihara. December and January are special months in Japan. As we wind down this year, I’ve been thinking about how these two months have changed over the years. My first experience with Christmas and New Years in Japan was in 1982. Nobody really celebrated Christmas, and New Years […]
The Great Escape
Hi! This is Patrick from Smith’s school, Koenji. Do you remember being sent to your room when you were young? I do. Quite a few times actually. It was always with the same warning, “Think about what you did”. It was the great escape for me as I sat and thought, dreamed and imagined within the […]
