This week I had a great adult student for one of my classes. She’s new and around my age, so we have a good time talking (thanks to the fact that her English is better than most). We got on the topic of the English language in marketing and advertising. In Japan, you’ll usually see [...]
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Our preschoolers made these for us. They say, “Thanks for teaching us English” AND we are as white as the wall behind us. Same latitude as San Diego, CA my butt
Awh Bret’s Students Wub Him
I never get stuff like this. Two of Bret’s students, who are brothers, had to stop their English instruction with Bret because of conflicting school/sports schedules (the new year for all school kids starts in March. Weird, huh?) Anyways, they made this for him as a parting gesture. It says, in Japanese, “we love you. [...]
Left from Valentines Day
Neon Genesis Evangelion 2.0 chocolate! It’s a manga about giant robots saving earth from an alien invasion. This is the “AU Assault Rifle Chocolate”: It looks like this: Here are the other two. The “Progressive Knife” and the “Steele Monolith”
SNOWDAY
Wooohooo! It’s snowing here in Japan. Never mind that it was 60 degrees out for the last two weeks. I got one class canceled, but have to go the the others Happy Snowday, Everyone! I hear it’s snowing in Washington as well.
So This is What Dragonfruit Looks Like…
In addition, I found out that, ” The Yasaka Fruit Processing Co., Ltd based in Binh Duong has just inaugurated a new factory 2009. This is the first factory exports dragon fruit to Japan after the Vietnam government abolishes fruit export to Japan.Dragon fruit is still unfamiliar to the Japanese. Thefore, our company has design [...]
First Speeding Ticket In Japan!!!
Don’t let the punctuation fool you, I am not pleased at the moment. I didn’t even have a good reason to be going fast–I even got off work early today! I just like going fast and wanted to go home. I haven’t gotten pulled over in years and have only gotten ONE ticket in my [...]
