Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi enjoyed holding a barbecue event with the Okamoto, Horie, Otsu and Fuse schools on July 27th, 2008 at Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park in Osaka, Japan. My school’s group was made up of some students, their friends and family, my wife, her cousin, a person who works at her workplace and me. At […]
Work / Family Balance
I was just over at Hub Pages, reading comments to a story by fellow franchisee Derek at Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話 塚口). Someone posted a link to another soapbox story, written by Helena at Nakamozu (スミス英会話 なかもず). It was a great read for me, as I am expecting our first child very, very soon. Her comments about family […]
Birthday Mania 誕生日がいっぱい!
The other day at Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi, I asked 2 students studying in the same class when their birthdays were. One of them said “today” (July 28th) and the other said that hers was on July 30th! We laughed because his birthday was on that very day and because their birthdays were so close […]