English Conversation students at the Smith’s School of English in Kotoen スミス英会話 甲東園 have long known about my astronomy hobby. It has been in a temporary hiatus because, thanks to El Ninyo, the atmospheric conditions in Japan have been poor since 2012. Well, all that has finally changed with the general improvement evident since January. […]
Rugby World Cup Japan 2019
Hello dear readers! Some of you must be watching the NHL Stanley Cup Division Playoffs right about now. Others are very much looking forward to the Olympic Games coming up in Rio de Janeiro this summer. But did you know? Japan was selected to Host the 2019 Rugby World Cup ! Now for all you […]
The Art of Photo-Bombing
Hello everyone. Photo-Bombing : Another new English word ! In the 1980s, thousands of new vocabulary were added to the English language because of computers and role-playing games, and thousands more came in the 1990s and 2000s because of the information age. Now, with 4G LTE and the global mobile internet phenomenon, we are seeing […]