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It is almost the end of the first school term here in Japan and so the ten lessons I do at the nine schools are wrapping up. Some of the schools have presented me with kanji-laden messages of thanks from the kids with group photos and the like and I`ll try and put some of these up when I figure out how to use the scanner.

It`s an interesting comparison between the schools I visit who give me presents and the evening school I teach at where the kids (if not actually hating me) will squirm and sit in poker faced silence even if I use the same style and jokes. Teaching at the schools is on the whole intensely enjoyable and rewarding and even if I work for the most amateurish company in the world, if this ends I will deeply miss it.