michael lambe

Popped into my old school today (after an income tax form), and met some of my old students. I first taught them when they were noisy little junior high 3rd years and now they are senior high 3rd years talking excitedly about the study abroad program they will have at their university. Time’s arrow, eh? [...]

I’ll be leaving Kyojo in the Spring and starting a new job, fulltime at Heian High School. It’s good to start something new after three years at Kyoto Girls’… but at the same time I’m going to miss a lot of the students. This week I’ve been saying goodbye to my first year students. I [...]

That’s it. My last class of the year is over and for the next couple of weeks at least I am more or less free. I still have the Saturday morning job at the clinic of course, but that’s far too much fun to be actually considered work. Anyway, now that my teaching year is [...]

Ah, it’s time to say goodbye to two more writing classes. It’s weird to think I won’t be seeing their faces in the classroom again… Here’s dear old 3:1- you can click on the picture for a closer look, or as we say in nihongonese:下の写真をクリックしたらもっと大きく見えるよ :
Good luck to you 3:1 ladies! May you all be [...]

Another year goes around and it’s time to say goodbye to two more writing classes. Nice classes these. I taught some of them when they were first years too… And I shall miss them. Good luck ladies in your bright and shiny futures!
Here’s 3:3. (下の写真をクリックしたらもっと大きく見えるよ！）

And here’s 3:4.

Hmm… the pictures are a bit fuzzy. Maybe I [...]

Here’s what I’ve been up to lately:

Saturday October 4th: Went to see Randy Weston and Alex Blake at Kamigamo. That was an amazing night. Those two guys are no spring chickens but they play with all the mercurial energy of youth. Alex Blake plays his bass like a crazy man, and both of them are [...]