softicecreamlesley

Still on a quest to eat all the strange soft ice cream flavors in Japan. School owner and extensive reading enthusiast. Teach children CLIL lessons and love my work. Camping and shochu enthusiast. Still am never sure if I’m using emoji correctly.

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LIXON library: https://library.lixoneducation.com/
BIG BOW English Lab: https://www.bigbowenglish.com/

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2026-05-26 00:19:04 UTC

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You would love Omihachiman. They are everywhere!
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2026-02-19 13:27:15 UTC

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1/2 Potato Club is owned by a Japanese woman and still in business. Patrick Jackson started working there because his wife is from that area of Nagoya. The school encouraged teachers to make their own materials, so he created Potato Pals. After he went to work at a junior high, he showed his work to Oxford University Press and they published it! (This is a really unusual case in ELT publishing.) The songs are by Brian Cullen, another Irishman and long term Nagoya resident.

2026-02-19 11:55:48 UTC

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Oh, yeah! He lived in Nagoya and we go way back.

2026-02-19 03:33:13 UTC

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There’s an English school in Nagoya called “Potato Club”. My Irish friend worked there, and to make it even better, he turned his experience into a textbook for kindergartners called “Potato Pals”. 😂🥔

2026-02-07 09:22:21 UTC

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I’m dying to know the whole story. Did they say something or just glare?

2025-07-20 12:30:04 UTC

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He (journalist on left) wrapped up by saying that he really hopes that the Sanseito leader realizes how much the things he has said in the past about women and foreign residents have upset a lot of people and that someday he will apologize for these awful statements.
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2025-07-20 12:23:09 UTC

Sanseido leader is absolutely getting slammed by the TV reporter on Hodo Station right now about his views on working women. It’s nice to see brave journalism in action.

2025-07-05 00:58:41 UTC

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I have hiked this twice. The waterfalls are absolutely stunning.

2025-05-10 05:47:48 UTC

OK, the “foreigners buy an akiya” trend has clearly gotten out of control.
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2025-01-02 11:51:41 UTC

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Mine was, too! 🤣
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2024-11-10 11:52:30 UTC

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Oh, boy, I haven’t taught this type of student for a very long time, so any information I have would be very outdated. BUT, I am going to JALT this weekend and will visit all of the publisher booths, so I can ask this question and he some recommendations then. Can I give an answer on the 18th?

2024-10-22 05:14:36 UTC

I thought I was driving behind the Illuminati, but it was just someone with a rear dash cam. 😜
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2024-10-22 03:54:38 UTC

About five police cars sped by my house this morning. Seems some guy in his 40s repeatedly stabbed another guy in his 50s (both Japanese) inside and in the parking lot of the nearby Family Mart. Apparently the guys who got stabbed is fighting for his life. No motive has been given yet.
I’m really freaked out. Nothing happens in our neighborhood like this.