Weekly Re-Cap
Numbered highlights from the past week: 1. I have an English student now! Last Saturday I met with Yusuke, a guy who just moved to the area from Kanagawa and whom I got connected with through a missionary friend up there. Yusuke and I will start meeting more-or-less...
Wednesday Evening Brain Dump
1. I'm not feeling very energetic right now. Three hours of Japanese class just saps my strength some days. 2. I've re-discovered my Palm pilot. Actually it's a Treo, which makes it a smart phone, only they don't use the same cell phone system here, so in effect it's...
Teaching Grammar in the ESL Classroom
Today's post is another paper from the correspondence TESL course I was taking back in the Fall. This assignment was on the question of whether or not grammar should be taught explicitly in the ESL classroom. Any thoughts? Feel free to comment, especially if you're a...
Weekly Re-cap / Prayer Letter
This week, instead a normal re-cap (if there is such a thing), I'm posting my prayer letter, also being sent to my supporters via email. -------------------------------------- Hi everyone, Sunday night I went to a multi-denominational youth worship gathering, called...
Talk Time
This week and next I'm continuing my series of writings on Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), using more material taken from assignments I did for my TESL course. Today's post was written back in mid-December, and is about teacher vs. student talk time in...
Weekly Re-cap
This week I... Visited a fellow-missionary's church for their Sunday night "Gospel Cafe" event. Met some cool musician guys and had a good chat with them. Biked to class on my new bicycle. Podcasted. Had a good meeting with my pastor / mentor, Joseph Saoshiro. Found a...
TV Program Leads Japanese Youth To Faith in Christ
Read this: Worship & The Arts: TV Program Leads Japanese Youth To Faith in Christ. Great testimony.
Update
If you went looking for new photos in the past couple of days, sorry. I had some uploading trouble, and still seem to be, so for now the Photo page is down. Hopefully I can remedy that soon, though. In the meantime, a brief update: I've enrolled in a part-time...
Weekly Re-cap
As of tonight, I have officially been in Japan for one week. Things have been going well. I really like the people at the church here, and the neighborhood and city are going to be fun places to live. This week was spent mostly on getting aclimated and settled into my...
Here.
This is just a quick note to let you all know I've made it safely to Nagoya, Japan. So far so good. More news and regularity of blogging in the new year. Happy New Year.