Archive for July, 2006

Salsa

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Last night’s salsa performance went very smoothly.  I was very happy.     The weather was a bit overcast, but luckily it didn’t rain!
And someone recorded it, so today I’m ripping the video to the school computer and then I’ll be putting it on a DVD.  If anyone would like a copy of the DVD […]

here it is

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

anyway, here’s the weekend rundown.

Well, Mami’s friends, Shiho and Kiyo drove from Nagoya and arrived on Friday night before midnight. (I can’t remember what we did on Friday evening.. I think we had salsa practice..?) Anyway, we met them at the Ministop near the Max Value and then they […]

another busy weekend.

Monday, July 10th, 2006

So.. this weekend was busy as well.  On Saturday morning, Chance and Erika came over and and we drove to the MaxValu.   I made a quick side trip into the 100man bolt (1 million volt) eletronics shop and bought a Nintendo DS and the Japanese English dictionary that goes with it.    I’m a […]

Frisbee, Fireflies and Fantastic Students….

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

I’m going to start with a recent message one of my students wrote to me in her notebook. She is a second year junior high school student. (Basically Grade . She’s been learning English for 2 years now. And she’s wonderful.
Here it is.
“Hello, Gareth!! Today I’m going to tell […]