Last Sunday, the weather was finally nice enough so that we could take a trip with friends from London to the mountains near Kyoto. Our friends have been in Kyoto before and this time around we’ve decided to go on a slightly different day-trip, rather than the usual sightseeing in the city. We went to […]
6 Days in a Japanese Hospital
After my unfortunate accident on a bicycle couple of weeks ago, I had to spend six days in Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital. I broke my collarbone in a way that required surgery. As a foreigner with limited Japanese, I was naturally concerned how would I be able to communicate with doctors, nurses and other […]
Silent Movies Are Back!
In the wake of this year’s Academy Awards surprising win for a silent movie ‘The Artist’, I’ve been discussing the Oscars with many students at Smith’s School of English Kyobashi (スミス 英会話 京橋). All of them had been as surprised as I was, with the success this movie had at the ceremony. It won five major […]
