Big Welcome Originally uploaded by Your Teacher. The Dalai Lama is in Hessen today. His holiness is being presented with the "Hessischer Friedenspreis".

Today's lesson was all about television. Everyone talked about TV in their country or about a particular programme. We learnt about Taiwanese soap operas and glove puppet shows. Italian documentaries, Nepalese satire and a range of programming in India. For homework I directed everyone to read the long and rather shocking storyline from Eastenders.

Rosengarten Path 1 Originally uploaded by Your Teacher. Sometimes I like to just wander aimlessly and find out where the path takes me. The weekend is perfect for this.

Today's lesson was all about music and musical instruments. From opera and classical music to rock and roll and The Clash. We talked about it all. The pages I directed everyone to were:- http://www.dsokids.com/2001/instrumentchart.htm - gives an excellent overview of instruments in an orchestra. http://www.learnenglish.de/culture/britishmusic.php - an overview of contemperary music in the UK today.

Gummy Bear Army Originally uploaded by Your Teacher. After another sad day thinking about how cruel we are to each other I decided to deploy my army of gummy bears. They are marching now. Can you hear them?

After a lot of technical problems today's lesson got under way. We listened to a story about the decriminalisation of marijuana in Western Australia and then went on to talk about the different kinds of court, crimes and laws there are. We discussed - the difference between a barrister and solicitor, judges and juries and […]