I started with Mr. Yamaguchi today. He's a young man (30) with a real need to speak English and a job riding him like a hag rides a nightmare. We'll work together on Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour and a half.

The kids at the Japanese School are winding down to summer vacation and have enough energy to power a mid-size city. It's hard to keep them on task. It doesn't help that they have no worry about grades. Their regular teacher gave them their final grade for the semester before she left. Still we are having fun with the Boggle exercises. Wakana helped me make red and blue calico ribbons for them to wear as headbands. They pick teams by pulling the ribbons out of a bag. They love it.