Singing in the rain (not)

So, day two is over and I've done my first real teaching of this course. Was it wildly successful? Not really but we still have to get used to each other.

Most of my students are Chinese and Taiwanese and none of them have been to the UK before. The culture shock must be enormous. For example, we were talking about different types of writing today and I mentioned blogs (and that I had one). They mainly just looked stunned - and I've only just remembered how much censorship there is in China, even I've been deemed 'unacceptable' on occasion and I'm soooo innocent (honestly).

They will loosen up and I will calm down and we'll meet somewhere in the middle. In the meantime I'm getting involved in planning lessons at a level of detail I haven't used since doing my DELTA.

Two more things - it keeps on raining - what is it with Winchester? It is going for the Olympic Rainfall Gold Medal?

And here's a question I've been grappling with: "Just what is a sentence?"