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, […]
Hiking on Mt Kongo 金剛山
Over the years teaching at my Smith’s School of English in Sakai Higashi and Nakamozu which are part of the Smith’s School of English, pay by the month（月謝）, English conversation schools franchise system in Japan, I often hear my younger students mention that over the previous week their school had taken a trip to Mt […]
Plum Blossoms. Kozen Koen, Semboku, Sakai City.
スミス英会話堺東・なかもず校講師が書いた記事。日本語のメインサイトはこちら→(スミス英会話堺東校)(スミス英会話なかもず校) Last Sunday was really great weather in the Semboku(泉北) area of Sakai City(堺市). My wife and son decided to go for a walk to a park that I had heard about in my English conversation lessons at Smith’s School of English Nakamozu(スミス英会話 なかもず校). Many of my students live in the Semboku area, and have told […]
