Well, I gotta say, we have never, ever seen a crowd like this. Well, we all have at Yodogawa, but for a much smaller, highly concentrated area, it was a throng. And totally worth it, as it is every year we are able to make it. Uji is normally on a weeknight, always set for the […]
My Special Vacation (A shifted-Golden Week Holiday)
Recently I took a special vacation from teaching and running my school to visit my daughter and son in Pittsburgh and Las Vegas, respectively. I worked out a way with my students to be open during Smith’s normal Golden Week holiday and then close during the last week of May and the first week of […]
Reflecting on my decision to take over the Smith’s Azamino English Conversation School (スミス英会話 あざみ野校).
In life, some decisions you make you regret, while other decisions you make there are no regrets. For me, I seem to have quite of few of these decisions on both sides (that I regret and not regret). The decision to start BASE Jumping is perhaps one that is both. Common sense would say “jumping […]
