Print your tickets! Pack your bags! The most celebrated week of the year (at least in Japan) is here: Golden Week!　By now you’ve heard of the series of national holidays clustered at the beginning of May.　Perhaps it was a fellow ALT or a friendly JTE who first made you aware of this spectacular feat in…
The month of May has crept up on us once again, hello May! We welcome you warmly as you bear the best gift a nenkyu-less ALT can get, Golden Week! Come Friday May 2nd I’ll be all packed and ready to dart out of the staff room straight onto a flight to Seoul! Whether you’re…
Well hello there and hurrah for May! The sun is shining, yet we are not melting! Cherry blossoms are long gone, but new flowers bloom every day, each more brightly than the one before. Schedules are finally in normal mode after April’s organised chaos of ceremonies, health checks and interviews. Sure we’re going to miss…
Remember the days as a child when you would receive a shiny new bicycle and in all the excitement you would hop on and start pedaling as fast as you could? Forgetting the concept of danger, you would ride it all around the neighborhood hoping to make the other kids jealous, popping wheelies and…