Today was the begining of my final week at Nova. I have 4 days left and today I did a special 3 lesson Voice for the students. Normally Sunday Voice has about 4-5 people. 17 people turned up to see my pictures, take a Damien quiz and to have a good laugh and fun whilst enjoying learning English.

It was an amazing 3 lessons for me, the students loved my pictures, brought cakes, cameras and pictures of their own. They also brought a good sense of humour and we had a great time learning/looking at my pictures. I gave the students my SLR to take pictures of the lesson and they accepted my mission with gusto. Some of the 50 pictures they took are so genius that I have to post them to the Funnies section.

I gave the students a notebook to write me messages and they are all very nice (if not great English, but hell it’s better than I could do in Japanese!). I also was presented a 5 foot tall Shoudou piece by Masamichi (my favourite old student, he’s about 70). Essentially it says thank you and good luck for the future but looks stunning and is something that made the other instructors jealous!

It was a draining, exciting, emotional and exhillarating last 3 voice lessons with Students I really enjoy teaching. It begins the final furlong of my Nova career, one that I’m sad to be ending but similarly I can’t wait to get back to see my family and friends. The next four days will fly by and I should hopefully have many people I call friends in Japan.

mata ne!