Ellie's World

As the spring trimester is coming to an end, the students have begun practicing for the fall sports festival. This means each class has begu...

Three American junior high school students came to visit my school for a few days this week (this is a whole blog in itself...I'll save ...

I was offended for the first time a few days ago. At lunch, a second-year boy started talking about his trip to America. He had gone to St. ...

I play tennis every week with a bunch of Japanese and foreign friends. The last few weeks a first-year student at one of my schools has been...

Sixth-grader's question: "Are there glasses in America?" My answer: "Yes, there are glasses in all countries." Next ...

DisneySea is the Disney theme park next to Disneyland in northern Chiba (near Tokyo). I went there last Saturday with my buddy Kana. A bunch...

Every week I play tennis with a group of Japanese and foreign friends. The tennis courts are outside of the city, at the base of a small mou...

I watched this movie for the first time yesterday. The scene where John Candy and Steve Martin are driving on the other side of the road is ...

I've been blogging in my head ever since I got back from my short trip to the States, but haven't actually made it to the computer u...

As I was biking to the grocery store after lunch at my friend's house, I started thinking about all the things I'm going to miss abo...

This morning in a first-year English class I was doing the routine stuff- flashcards and dialogue repetition. After I read the first dialogu...

This was probably one of my favorite birthdays ever because I got so much mail! Thanks everyone for inundating my mailbox with letters this ...

I'm coming home for a friend's wedding next week, so I thought I'd start moving home by bringing a bunch of stuff I don't ne...