Shower Thoughts
I always come up with my best and most interesting ideas in the shower. Unfortunately, I never write them down. Sometimes I am lucky enough to remember them. Today, two things came up. 1. Do...
Tagged: Teaching
Why Japanese kids think they are learning English.
For one of my first lessons, I asked the students to get into groups and try to think about why they are studying English. These are some of the most common answers from 18...
Naughty Student!
Was teaching today and during the class there was this one kid that wouldn’t shut up. After a few interruptions the J.T.E asked him to quieten down, but he wasn’t having any of that....
Teaching alone again!
Had two classes by myself again, kids are pretty damn noisy, but as they were second years they weren’t as bad as the third year lot I had by myself my first day at...
Sports Day / Inahama Junior High School
Sports day wasn’t too bad. Spend most of my time helping out setting up and cleaning up. I was the judge in the Tug of War competition (my team lost) which was quite interesting....
Hi Chris, Your blog was helpful but I’m still a bit confused. Do we need both the certificate of no…
Hi Daniel, Sorry - I'm not too sure, its possible the certificate of no impediment has changed since I filled…
Hi Aaron, In Japan you should be good to go. You might have difficulty in other countries when trying to…
Hello Chris I have recently married in Japan Konintodoke was filled out and accepted translator advised we were know married…
Hi, Chris. I'm just trying to get my cert of no impediment to marriage done now and I'm a bit…