Hi everybody!  My name is Jeffrey Kuntz (ジェフリ・クンツ). 
I am from Columbia, Missouri in the U.S.  I’m 27 years old. 
My hobbies are listening to music and playing the guitar. 
I also like karaoke and food.  I love food!  I don’t know how to cook Japanese food very well, but I can eat a lot of it!

My hometown isn’t big, so I feel at home in Sakata. 
My hometown is about the same size as Sakata.  If you want to find it on a map, look around the middle of the U.S. and find Missouri.  Now look for St. Louis and Kansas City.  Columbia is in the middle of Missouri, between St. Louis and Kansas City. 
You can also find my hometown if you look for the Mississippi river. If you follow the Mississippi river, you will find St. Louis. 
Do you know the book, ‘Tom Sawyer’?  It was written by Mark Twain.  He was also from Missouri.

OK, enough about Missouri!  I have a habit of talking about Missouri a lot.  Maybe because I’ve done my 自己紹介 over 100 times!  Now I can’t stop!

I came to Sakata in August, 2005 and I began teaching at three junior high schools (2, 3, 4中).  It’s always fun to come to school, have classes, and talk to the students.  My first school was 4中.  Everyone told me that the students were very 元気.  That’s true!  But there are “genki” students at every school!

Every school is different.  I don’t have a favorite school in Sakata.  I like them all!  I am still learning Japanese (…slowly…) and junior high students help me a lot with the language.  Everyday I TEACH English and I try to LEARN Japanese. 
It keeps me busy!

I hope you can understand what I’ve written!  Take care!

See you at school,

Jefff