On April 17th, I was both suprised and pleased at my English conversation school (英会話スクール), Smith’s School of English Tsukaguchi School (スミス英会話 塚口校) in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. A student showed me that he had downloaded a video on the 2010 joint Smith’s cherry blossom viewing event (that I’d made) onto his video Sony Walkman player. You can […]
New friend, old friend
I made a new, old friend yesterday while handing out flyers. We started managing Smith’s Shimokitazawa location (スミス英会話下北沢) 4 years ago. As you can imagine, we have completed numerous flyer runs. Shimokitazawa station (下北沢駅) gets a lot of traffic, but it is still small enough to recognize regulars. One of the regular commuters is a […]
the results are in
Well the results are in now, and here at Ikoma Smith’s School of English. We are in a winning situation. All the kids who wrote the listening test passed, for a 100% pass rate. I am amazed at my students, they really seem to like the tests. some of the kids ask their parents very […]