I've been counting the first 300 words produced by 2 bilingual kids. I've been doing this for a while, putting them all into their different categories so I can analyse them the way I want to. And all I've succeeded in doing is making tables with numbers in. Numbers never did make much sense to me; I need things explained in prose - 'Table 1 shows ( Read more... )

'No' is not a valid answer to this question, apparently. Despite it being a yes/no + discuss question ( Read more... )

1 - Challenges. Shrink from none - take as many opportunities and do as many new things as I can possibly fit in ( Read more... )

The Good News: The JET Programme have invited me down to London for a formal interview to be an assistant language teacher ( Read more... )

I went to Kendo, which, broadly speaking, is Japanese fencing with bamboo sticks. Based on 2 sessions, I'm really enjoying it. I've wanted to do some kind of combat-martial-art-thing for a long time. I think if I don't start Kendo now, I'll never get into it ( Read more... )

... He took away her adventure.

Y'ken how it was very sunny this morning? Well, I spent the sunniest four hours manning a zebra crossing for the uni open day. All I had to do was smile incessantly, and explain the way to the exhibition centre / central hall as required, which left a lot of time to get SUNBURNED ( Read more... )

Following Chomsky, all transformations (including but not limited to Pack, Prompt to Pack, Exclaim about Current Lack of Packing and Seek Boxes) may be replaced by a single operation: MOVE X, where X is Chris, Eleanor, Helen etc.

I had never been kicked out of a Wetherspoon's before. Not for being underage, not for being with drunken idiots, not for tripping and spilling drinks, all of which I've done, and all of which might warrant being thrown out ( Read more... )

Y'know what would have been a better idea than doing a fifth of my degree in this one term?

ANYTHING!

(except semantics)