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Essential Tips for Travel to Destination Turkmenistan
If you're thinking of heading to the amazing and different Turkmenistan, you're going to want to check out this post! If not you'll still find it interesting!
Sunday Spotlight – Seville
Come to the south of Spain - Andalusia's Seville is truly MAGNIFICENT!
Essential Tips for Travel to Tajikistan
Folks last year I went through three countries in Central Asia, all with the pluses and minuses, but ultimately three countries I enjoyed travelling. Tajikistan was the first country I stepped into to explore, and as with all over Central Asia I really enjoyed it as a destination. It is mountainous, varied, has some amazing …
The Interac Experience Part Five – Training & Observation
As the first year rolled on, things got a lot easier. I got into a rhythm and I developed better lesson plans and better understanding of what I needed to do. As you’d expect, right? Also I got to know the students a lot better, know them by name, which really helped. Not all of …
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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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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 …
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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Japanese Survival Guide Point 6 – Language
I’m continuing for a few more weeks my regular Saturday spot – ‘The Japanese Survival Guide’, and today I wanted to look a bit at the Japanese language, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, if you are headed to Japan it will help to know a couple of useful phrases, but also, to someone who’s …
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