Goodbye blogspot
After many years together, I am leaving blogspot. I have set up house with WordPress at sendaiben.org, and we hope to be very happy together. Please come and see us!
Hiroshima
I just spent a week in Hiroshima on a one-week residential course for my MA. I am doing the distance Birmingham MA TEFL, and the course is an optional part of it.
Aside from the actual content of the sessions, I was struck by how much I got out of spending time with the tutors and the other students. Being able to bounce ideas off people, both in and outside of class, was invigorating.
It really made me realise how important it is to have a peer group. I’ll be doing more to stay in touch with mine from now on!
Materials development
This is a new area for me, but I have four projects I am starting up to develop teaching materials, all of them addressing needs my students have that I haven’t been able to meet by buying commercially available publications. I’ve been lucky enough to find partners to work with for some of them, and I think that will help a lot.
We’re back
Right, I’m back after an absence of about three years. In fact, I’ve been gone so long that blogspot actually lost my blog -had to poke around to find it and get it reassigned to my account.
It’s the end of the summer as far as I can tell…
Hey kids
Once again almost a month has gone by without me getting round to updating this beast. It is hot again (we had a weird summer that was hot at the beginning, cool in the middle, and is now trying to be hot again for the last few days) and there is not all that much to do right now.
Well, there is lots of stuff that has to be done fairly soon, but this office is a terrible place to try to concentrate, especially on stuff that could be done next week instead.
I’m taking tomorrow off and going for a drive with Chiho to celebrate my birthday. Feels weird having another birthday, I had pretty much forgotten about it until Chiho brought it up. Strange how something that was so important and exciting before can become so commonplace and unimportant!
So, the next time I do this I will be 29 🙂