Howdy all! Work has started to kick in, very busy workwise this week so will do my best to keep a-blogging but it won't be so easy. Today's blog is about travelling songs. I have a dedicated 'genre' on my ipod for travel, and I wanted to share with you my top five from that …
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The Interac Experience Part Four – Lesson Planning
Second and third weeks of my first year teaching at a Japanese High School, and it was time to get real. As easy as it was to create an introductory lesson, once it’s time to get down to teaching grammar, vocab and topics, suddenly BANG you are in a different world. In Georgia I had …
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Ruminations on Travel Blogging
‘Write a travel blog’ they said! ‘Share your experiences with loads of people’ they said. Actually, I started travel blogging back in 2005, right at the very end of the year before I left in early 2006 on my trip. Actually, nobody told me to, I just thought it would be a way to keep …
Gateway Countries – Sri Lanka
Welcome to a new series of Friday articles which will tide us over for the next four or five weeks until the podcast resumes called ‘Gateway Countries’. People often talk about ‘gateway cities’, a good place to start if you’re going to a new country, one with plenty of transport in and out etc, but …
The Interac Experience Part Two – Settling In
Last Saturday I began a recounting of the tale of working for Interac and living in Japan. I wrote about the first week, the training at the Toyoko Inn at Narita, and the way everything was conducted. Today I move on to recounting how it was heading up to Iwate and settling in, the gap …
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Liebster Award Nomination
Howdy folks! I have been nominated for a Liebster award! It’s very exciting, I’ve seen a number of blogs nominated out there and thanks to JP Chartier, and his blog Gutter Pup Adventures I have now been nominated which means I have a list of questions to answer and blogs to nominate and so forth! …
The Interac Experience Part One – Arrival and Orientation
It was a strange day when I arrived in Tokyo – well Narita Airport, actually in Chiba, in 2012. My wife and I had had to drop our honeymoon plans because I had been told that training for Interac would begin in April, but in fact started on the 20th of March. We’d got married …
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Write a Travel Diary!
When I first set out on my first independent trip, last century in 1999, I had seven months of travel ahead of me and I wanted to remember what I had done and where I had been. Simplest way? Write a travel diary! So I bought a nice big black hard cover book with lines …
Guest Post – 10 Reasons Why You Should Visit Guyana
Today, it's a special GUEST POST from Jessica from Turquoise Compass. I feel very privileged to have been approached by Jessica to contribute a guest post. It's on a country and a part of the world I have never been to (naturally I am extremely jealous) - Guyana, South America. So, I will turn it …
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Japanese Survival Guide Point 7 – City Hall and Bureaucracy
Winding down my Japanese Survival Guide now, with principally the third last post unless something else springs to mind, folks it’s time to prepare for the red tape that awaits the foreigner when you come to work in Japan as an ESL Teacher. The irony of it all is that Japan is a principally capitalistic …
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Andy's World Journeys 