Last weekend, I decided to try my hand at making some home made ume-shu. Ume shu(梅酒) is a delicious Japanese plum wine. Actually, ume isn’t a plum- it’s like a cross between a plum and apricot. The unripened green fruit are infused into a clear spirit (焼酎, shōchū) with added rock sugar and left over time, […]
I Am an Alien
Hello! My name is Derek. I’m from Canada and am enjoying teaching English in Japan to great students at my English conversation school (英会話スクール), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi (スミス英会話 塚口校) in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Oh, and I am an alien. Now please don’t worry! Apart from Superman (who looks human), I don’t think that I look […]
The soccer world cup is coming!
スミス英会話布施校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら Soccer world cup! ワールドカップ is the time when half of the world forgets about normal life and goes crazy. I still remember the last world cup in Germany with lots of sleepless nights. Back then, the students did not mind us teachers being sleepy in the morning lessons. They knew quite well how important the event was […]
