I taught all of Japan English yesterday. At least it seemed that way. I started out in the morning teaching 3- and 4-year-olds and ended teaching 75-year-olds.

The first class was the kindergarten. We were practicing the sentence pattern "I like but I don't like ." Mari-chan, who likes kittens, started out. "I like kitchens but I don't like dogs," she says. Next was Yuta-kun's turn: "I like fishing but I don't like fish."

Next we practiced saying our age. "How old are you?" I ask Tomo-kun, who looks just like his older sister when she's squinting.