This weekend has seen me driving all around Shirataka, Nagai and Iide for the Nishi Okitama-gun junior high school sports competition. This is the first stage of the giant sports event that eventually culminates in national finals dotted around Japan featuring the winning teams in each sport from each region. Last year, my one schools… [Read more…]
May 20, 2011
I do apologise for the fact that a few weeks have gone by with not a whole lot appearing on this blog. The simple fact is, I’ve been busy. I actually do have a job here and it has been keeping me busy. I’ve had an impressive 3 week cold (the joys), more work, basketball… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
It’s a scary fact that February is almost over already, it hardly feels like the year has started. February is only a short month, and I’m highly grateful in some ways as I seem to have spent most of this month in an unhappy state. I’ve written this blog once already, and just erased it… [Read more…]
October 26, 2010
I decided it was time for another blog about teaching, which I’m still loving every second of. After 2 lovely weeks of junior high school in September, I embarked on a 3 week spell of elementary. This isn’t exactly my idea of fun. I prefer nice long spells in JHS, with short week-long periods of… [Read more…]
September 14, 2010
During my holiday, the time that wasn’t spent gathering blisters in Kyoto or travelling around various prefectures cheering on my basketball boys was spent commuting between my 2 beloved junior high schools to prepare for the speech contest. There are 2 different categories – recital and speech. I had a student from each school in… [Read more…]
June 22, 2010
I’m temporarily ignoring a few weeks of events to write about the weekend that’s just happened. As the title suggests its somewhat sport related. I spent last week at my beloved Nishi Junior High school getting caught up in the excitement and nerves for sports day. Or rather sports weekend. Saturday and Sunday would see… [Read more…]
June 19, 2011
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