it's not life that matters but the journey...

yes, I'm so completely bored and such a complete loser that I've spent almost the entire afternoon looking at videos of Misha Collins in his various tv appearances throughout the years... and movies too. he's been in so many shows, and I guess he was a guest star on ER for awhile... who knew? not me since I gave up on that show back in the late '90s...

anyway, thought I'd share with you a nice clip of Misha (featuring him coming out of the shower, sans shirt) from ER - very nice in fact...



this morning I also watched the recent craptastically cheesy, but thoroughly entertaining SyFy original movie Stonehenge Apocalypse in which Misha, as a cute scientist, saves the world from being destroyed by Stonehenge... yes, that's really the plot. it was bad, but worth the time spent just to see Misha saving the world! really he's just an angel in disguise.

ok. you can now resume your much more interesting lives... don't mind me! I have got to stop having random romantic dreams featuring celebrities.

I sometimes wonder why I'm teaching English in Japan. Sometimes I really think that despite my 8 years of experience teaching English, and my MA in English, I still don't really know the English language well enough. so since I've searched and searched online and can't really find an answer, maybe someone out there can help me. can you?

I'm trying to figure out how to explain to one of the Japanese English teachers at the junior high school why this sentence: English is fun to learn.
is better than this sentence: To learn English is fun.

I know that you CAN use infinitives as subjects in a sentence, as in this example:
To climb Mt. Everest has always been my dream.

BUT to me it's more natural, or just better English, to say this:
It has always been my dream to climb Mt. Everest.

??

I think it depends on what you want your subject to be.

See, I gave the 9th graders a warm-up game the other day. They got into groups of five students, and each student was assigned a number, from 1-5. I took a five-word sentence and broke it up, putting each word on the board one at a time. Each "1" student would look up at the board when I wrote their word (word "1") and the others would "sleep." And so on, until each student had seen their own word. When each student had been given his/her word, they would come together as a group and put together the words into a sentence.
I gave them the following words: English, fun, learn, is, to
And they came up with the two versions above (as well as others which weren't correct at all).

So is it acceptable to say "To learn English is fun."?
I don't think it's grammatically incorrect, but at the same time I don't think that it's really good English.

English experts, please help me.

Thanks!