Today was an interesting day for me, here at Smith’s Eikaiwa Kamishinjoスミス英会話上新庄校. Everywhere I went people seemed to be speaking English. I was walking down the street toward the local grocery store, Kansai Super関西スーパー, which the locals call Kansu, when a woman starting talking to herself, clearly studying English and practicing basic English from cue […]
grades
Growing up in the modern world so much importance is placed on grades. Depending on how I did each quarter I either rushed to show my parents my report card showing off my achievements or trembled with fear, dreading the moment and figuring out how to explain why I did so poorly. Here in Japan […]