for all you eikaiwa teachers: do a western dinner etiquette night. it was such a success, i can't believe i haven't done it before. i made a main course, salad and soup (i had also asked everyone to contribute something). we held it at the community centre. i taught them all the general rules of western dinner etiquette. i told them at the beginning that they probably were aware of most things, but that i would just go over everything and if they learned something new then great. most of these people take english conversation classes so they can travel and talk with foreigners, so i think they find this quite interesting and useful. i went over the DOs and DONTs (DO use a knife AND fork, DONT slurp your soup etc). i was actually quite surprised with what they didn't know. anyway, great success and we had a LOT of fun!