Today, during my run with the Premier Sports Marathoner in Training (MIT) group, I was talking with a very nice lady from South Africa (who is also part of the group) about how I used to teach English in Japan. I mentioned that I used to teach English at a kindergarten, and how my students (aged three to five) were supposed to learn English as a second language, and yet, they could barely speak Japanese. It all seems so funny now. Also, I mentioned how my kindergarten students are now high-school students—in fact, the five-year-olds would just be graduating from high school this year. It’s amazing how fast time passes. To me, they’ll always be three-, four-, and five-year-olds.

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