Minimalism - Online Income - ESL - Japan
I’ve been watching a lot of Andrew Kirby recently. This kid is less than half my age, but has twice the wisdom! Recently, he talked about how you can look at your past behavior to plan a strategy for the future, and included a quote about a boat needing to know which port it’s heading to, or it’ll get lost. I’m in my late-forties, which seems like a good time […]
Happy New Year everybody! And what a great start… I won the Nenmatsu Jumbo lottery! Actually, that’s a bald-faced lie, but I did win $25 from Jason in his post, Time to Give Away Some Cash. Whoo-hoo! 😀 10 Predictions for 2008 in Japan Back in December, after watching how easily Brazilian “Psychic†Jucelino Nobrega da Luz convinced Japanese TV audiences of his mystical powers, I thought I’d try my […]
A year ago, I used a free service at FutureMe.org to send an email to myself in the future. I had completely forgotten about it until it came through the other day. Here it is, with obscenities and personal info removed. Dear Nick, It’s Sept. 24th, 2006. Hopefully when you read this you will have achieved the goals that I’m setting today! 1) Be earning (deleted) 2) Have saved (deleted) […]
I was teaching the future tense using “will” to three Junior High school students today, and since we had some time left at the end of the lesson, I showed them a picture of Rikuto and asked them to write answers to four questions about his future. Here they are for your own amusement! 1. What will Rikuto be in the future? Student 1: He will be an English teacher. […]