I took a reminiscence walk yesterday from JR Shibuya station to Metro Omotesando station along the Aoyama Dori Avenue. And along the way I stepped into Aoyamagakuin University in which I studied in its evening course. Another place I had intending to look back to was Hampton School of English which was a modest scale English school and I had studied the language some afternoons before the night course for a couple of years in my early 20s.
The University was there as they had been and the most of old building remaining bar the chapel. Its ginkgo trees street has full of yellow turned leaves and many of them on the sidewalk. Some students were preparing for the School Festival begins on this Friday.
While the English school which had been in a small building a few block from the university was not able to be found, and when I asked a searcher, it said it had moved to a building near Omotesando station. I had been not only taught but also very much encouraged to study English by Mr. John Cadman who had come Japan as a lecture of British Counsel and teaching at Yokohama National University. He occasionally had come to this school to teach.
When he returned to his home in Wakefield, Yorkshire for summer holiday, I had accompanied with him to Heathrow for my first foreign trip. After having travelled around England and Scotland, I visited his home there and stayed overnight.
The new Hampton School is located on the corner of Omotesando Cross and on the third floor of a similarly small building as it had been. I believe that the school has a few good teachers and offering good lessons to equally enthusiastic students. I also believe that the classes will train the students to manage the language at least this level in 45 years’ time.
If a reader might know where the Mr. John Cadman is, please tell me his email address.
