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Chris Ballard in Japan
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Chris from Hawaii, now teaching English conversation at his own little School in Japan.
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Japan: An Adults opinion (Crime)
One of my adult students written opinion on a couple of recent criminal cases in Japan. Which we discussed at length during the lesson.The end of every lesson is when the y get to exchange money. They used to love holding lots of ones until they star...
Bits n Pieces November 09
The advanced level Friday girls had a lot of fun with the buzzer quiz game!!This diary gets high points for cuteness...unfortunately i had to add a lot of red pen "teacher marks" to it after this photo.One of my best classes getting ready to read. We...
Swine Flu in Japan and "Thank God"
A nice card from the local Kindergarten.I thank God I have the chance to spin my "Karma" back in the right direction. If they knew even a little bit about my "Rough come up" I'd never get in the door or any other one without bars on it. Thankfully on...
Saturday and my favorite book
We played a kinda elimination/concentration game and used some leftover Halloween candy as motivation (not the whole bag).I advised one of my first year Japanese High School boys to grab "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (in English),It wil...
Halloween Party in Japan 2009
That was A LOT of work but a lot of fun thanks to the support of friends!! I think everyone had a great time and the haunted house was really fun!! Thanks to everyone who helped make yesterday a big success!!We started with a Mexican style dinner and...
The day before the Halloween party
It's the day before the party and I'm standing right behind the "8 Ball"...I'll be up at 5am tomorrow.I wish myself luck :)Moe is in the 4th grade and she writes better than I did in the 4th grade. O.K., that's not the greatest compliment but I was t...
