Dear Education Minister Yoshiaki Takaki: "How tall are you?" "How much do you weigh?" "Ooh, your eyes look like sunflowers." I guess if I got ¥100 every time a Japanese junior high school student asked me one of those questions, I wouldn't be writing this letter today.
I have been an assistant language teacher (ALT) in Japan's public and private junior high and senior high schools for well over a decade. If you include my volunteer work at English conversation schools (eikaiwa) and English conversation classes, that total jumps to nearly 25 years of experience.
I have taught students ranging from preschool to high school. I have also taught English to university professors, doctors, lawyers, teachers, dentists and other business professionals. I have a wide spectrum of English teaching experience.