Hello from foggy Valladolid

Hello

I'm Jon Clark and I live in the northern central part of Spain. When we have very foggy weather as during all this week, it usually means that it is very sunny and warm on the coast (over 200 km away). Here it is only 3ºC and dark.

I'm looking forward to being your tutor for this course and finding out about you.

Apart from working on this course, I also teach in a large language school here in Valladolid and am an examiner for various Cambridge exams.

When I get some free time, I like doing exercise with my family. Our latest interest is discovering 'vias verdes', which are disused railway lines which have been converted into cycling, walking and and horse riding routes. I prefer to cycle.

Here in Spain we have a general election on 9 March, in which I am very interested. it seems that the winner will be the political party which can reassure people most about the economy. I think this must be the same in many countries.

I hope to meet you soon and I will try to help you get the best out of this course.

Best wishes

Jon

Valladolid, Spain

Welcome to the course

Greetings from your New Zealand tutor. I am looking forward to another interesting bunch of students. At the moment we are in full summer holidays, expecting peaches and nectarines to ripen, becoming acquainted with and sailing our new small boat, harvesting honey from our beehives and installing fans for record high temperatures. It feels as if our temperate climate is becoming tropical. I trust you will find the course fruitful. Beth

Welcome to the Business Writing Spring 2008 Blog

This blog is part of the materials for the Business Writing, 8hp Course at Högskolan i Kalmar in Sweden in Spring Term 2008. You can learn more about me, David Richardson, by clicking on my profile - feel free to get in touch if you want to know more!

I'll be using this blog to keep in touch during the course, and you'll be using it to post your Warm-Up Tasks. I'll give you feedback on your Warm-Up Tasks personally and confidentially, but I'll also use the blog to make some general comments on the way that everyone has handled the Warm-Ups. The idea is that you should get some direct feedback before the Send-In Task related to that Warm-Up is due.

Remember too that there are a series of podcasts relating to the various tasks on the course. The 'Pre-Course Podcast' link on the Course home page will take you to the page where you can find out how to subscribe to the podcasts in iTunes, and to another page where you can listen to the podcasts directly on screen. This link takes you directly to the Course home page:

Business Writing 8hp Course Home Page

Welcome to the course - the Internet tutors, Beth, Jon and Bruce, and I are looking forward to working with you this term.