On Thursday I had to give an 80 minute presentation to 170+ ALTs (us foreigner-folk) and JTEs (dem Japanese teachers who sort of teach English) on the oh-so boring topic of 'learning styles'. I was only given about 2 weeks notice before the presentation to prepare, but with the help of my other presenters it was pulled off quite nicely, and I got a lot of compliments afterwards from ALTs and my JTE of my presentation style. Maybe for my next job I can be a 'motivational speaker', except I don't think I could stand living in a van down by the river. Thanks for everyone's compliments though! I attribute my confidence with the mic from my many drunken hours at karaoke. Thursday night was the ALT-organized charity talent show, and I had a pretty good time there. Of course I got a barrage of questions from other JETs about what I'm doing after JET, and of course answered 'I don't know'. I can't focus on such things at the moment since I'm busy with the JLPT test in less than 2 weeks from now!! I haven't studied in over a week now, so today's the day to get back on the horse... I wasn't motivated to study this weekend but I did finish a new video that I would upload to my site if it wasn't for my school's wretched firewall that blocks any kind of uploading. I'll try to get it up tonight, but no promises. It's a video about my school activities like sports festivals, bunkasai, field trips, planting rice etc. Sorry, there's not many scenes of shirtless farm boys, ladies.