Where is a park?

Last night I cooked for the first time in ages. It was only gratin, but still, it felt nice to eat a hot meal for once instead of just fruit and a piece of bread or whatever it is that I usually do. I can't even remember because it's so boring. But it's also pretty boring cooking for one person, especially when it comes to cleaning up afterwards.

After my year 5 class I had the teacher come up and ask me why the sentence I taught today "Where is the ...?" wasn't "Where is a ...?" Finally some REAL English teaching! Well, not necessarily more real, but more grammar related than just passing off vocabularly like any dictionary can do. I love how they are SO skeptical of everything I tell them when I explain grammar and the like, as though I would be a worse source than their dodgy textbook. Although it is probably true that a lot of people who speak English have no idea how it works and you would be better off looking it up in a textbook - but I have seen some of the textbooks here and the example sentences contained within all too often bear little relation to any English I would ever use.