Well, another month has passed; I have now been the owner of Smith’s School of English, Kawanishi スミス英会話川西校 for 3 months, and I find myself in a reflective mood again. I have been thinking how easy I now find it to adapt lessons from most parts of the SSE curriculum to suit students of different levels. Again I […]
My Kind of Town part 1
I visited Japan many times since I first met my wife, Megumi, over 15 years ago. Our short trips were based in Matsue, where Megumi grew up, and where many members of her family still live. Over the years we visited Tokyo, Hiroshima, Hagi, Nagasaki, Tsuwano, Kobe and many other places in Japan. The first […]
Job Satisfaction
Over the last couple of months friends and family have often said to me that I look much more relaxed and healthy (some even say younger) than I did before. Strange? I can only imagine that it must be a result of my recent change of career, from being a semi-retired part time English teacher […]
