It's Back to School Time!

Hello everyone! 
After a very nice Long summer vacation I'm ready to start blogging again.  I don't know what it was but during the month of August something deep down in my soul said "August is no time for work!" So I neglected my blog and its updates. 
Now that it's September I can say that I'm ready to start again with the back to school season!

August was great fun but I seem to have spent much of my time trying to stay cool during the "dog days of summer"  I tell my friends and family living in the US that its been 36 or 37 degrees every day for the past 2 weeks and they cant believe it!

I've started a new back to school morning regimen that should look like this.

7am-wake up
Drink a 500-600ml of water
stretch or exercise
watch "the wife of ge ge ge" (8am)
check my e-mail
see my wife off to work
finish e-mail and do blog!!
start first lessons......

some of you might be wondering why i drink water first thing in the morning.  I'll let you guess for now.  Your hint is "its for health reasons".

anyways.
see you again soon!

Did you eat your "U" foods?

Yesterday was a day where you are supposed to eat foods that begin with the "u" sound.  A popular food to eat on this day is "unagi".  In Japanese there are many foods that start with "u" but there are very few in English.  Can you think of any?   "American Style Udon" doesn't count!

Here are a few that I could think of, but they have the serious disadvantage of being  One: not very delicious, and Two: Difficult to acquire in Japan. :(

Ugli fruit
Umquat
Upside down cake

Good Weekend

Hello Everyone.  I hope that you all took advantage of the nice 3 day weekend this last week to do something fun!  I did!  I had a great time starting with the Osaka brew Fest held in the Kyocera dome.  I was able to sample many beers from around the world and I even got to have some beer made in my home town.  I was really surprised!  The beer was excellent and they had a very wide variety of both domestic and foreign beers.  I especially liked the Hefeweizen style beers, which are a kind of wheat beer that is very good drinking in summer! For more information look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_beer. 

Closer to home you all should check out the Minoh beer company!  They had a very nice selection of specialty beers that were both delicious and cool, because they were made so close to home! 

This beer is called Anchor Steam, Its very bitter but it reminds me of my home in SF.

A lazy teacher.
A couch potato victim.
He's summer stricken.

Summer is here!

Speedy Bicycle 
Easy path cursing down hill
summer time, moves slowly


Mango Peach Cherries!
Watermelon Nectarine!
Summer fruits come!

SLIDE SHOWS!

Hi everyone!  I know it took me forever to get my pictures shaved down, but I finally got it done!  Please enjoy the 2 new Slide shows!  Remember you can click on the image to make it bigger!!

M.

July is Haiku Month!

This Month I have decided is Matt's English School haiku month!
Everyday this month I will submit a new English Haiku under the Haiku-project page (please check the navigator) Please feel free to add your own English haiku and comments!!!

Like in Japanese the haiku must follow the 5-7-5 format!  Have fun and lets see what we can create!

M.


Strive to educate.
Learning is never selfish.
All roads need bridges.