The Poltergeist
Heya everyone!
I’m back from my little hiatus. Hope you’re all well.
I’m VERY happy to say that I turned in the final assignment on my Masters Degree on Friday. **phew!**
Hoping it’s all A-OK and that said degree is conferred upon me come September ** YAY! (Fingers crossed!) **
I’m moving back to Australia at the beginning of August (from Japan) so I expect to be off the air again for a little while around that time, but for now I have a wee bit more free time in my week so I can post some things I’ve come across recently.
I found a neat little site last week that I’ll need to go and dig the link up for again. It has tons of examples of different accents amongst English speakers from all around the world. Very interesting. Not sure I’d use it extensively in the classroom, but I can think of a couple of ideas (which I’ll write up when I get the chance).
I also went to a workshop on Saturday afternoon (primarily for Japanese Teachers of English ahead of big conference–for which they’re planning and preparing) and got some really nice ideas, which I’ll share with you over the next couple of weeks.
And I talked with one of the teachers about what I think is a very common problem: How to get students interested in your lessons. So I’ll post up my thoughts regarding that for comment, too.
Sorry there’s no real “meat” to this post! 
I just thought I’d drop a brief line to say “I’m baaa-aack” and to see who’s still out there.
Feel free to leave me a “Hello” in the comments, eh?
k. Talk soon,
