To see a video of this event, please click Smith’s School of English Joint BBQ 2009 . One of the things that I really like about my job teaching English in Japan is holding special events for my students. Joint events are especially fun. For students, it gives them the opportunity to meet teachers and students from […]
TOEIC Expectations by Japanese Companies
Of course this is Japan so, Japanese university students looking for jobs need excellent Japanese ability, but it seems that Japanese companies are expecting fairly good English ability also. This became apparent earlier this year when I was looking through the SHUUKAN ST, a students’ weekly newspaper that I subscribe to for my students. There […]
Curry Udon
Living in Japan while doing my job teaching English in Japan allows me to enjoy the large variety of dishes Japanese food has to offer. One dish that I find delicious is curry udon, consisting of thick wheat-flour noodles in a curry soup mixed with meat or vegetables. At the restaurant I use chopsticks to eat it, which is the […]
