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…]
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…]
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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