To see a video of this event, please click Smith’s School of English Joint BBQ 2009 . One of the things that I really like about my job teaching English in Japan is holding special events for my students. Joint events are especially fun. For students, it gives them the opportunity to meet teachers and students from […]
Movies with a Message
I started receiving emails from Participant Media. I began receiving their newsletter after I saw the movie, An Inconvenient Truth, on global warming. It has information on very interesting matters. This month the newsletter introduced several movies and books which touch on socially important issues that we as human beings need to be aware of. […]
Valentine’s Day 2009 at Smith’s School of English- Okamoto
For those who are not familiar with the way Valentine’s Day works in Japan, let me say it is so much better than in the states where the guys have to go out and get chocolates and/or flowers for their wives and girlfreinds. In Japan the girls give the guys in their lives (almost all […]
