Thoughts about Europe Finally we succeeded! There is no Marine le Pen in France, no Gerd Wilders in the Nethlands and even in Germany the apparently unstoppable rise of the far right Movement has stopped after the last regional elections. All in all it sounds like we have saved the Union and could get back to our ordinary daily challenges. But there are still some urgently thoughts we have to deal with. First an foremost I find it a concerning trend in the western democracy to choose inexperienced persons for political leader positions. The french decision to vote for Emmanuel Macron instead of voting for le Pen was a important signal against the far right movement, but was it a signal in favour of the democracy? Is Macron perhaps the lesser of two evils? For me it feels a bit like that. There is still a crisis in the approval to the western system, which seems to be perceived as corrupt and far away from the problems of their own citizens. Another signal in favour of this theory was from my point of view the Brexit-Votum of the majority of the elderly British People, while the younger Part had been stayed away. Tired of participating in their own political system. Even the moment of shock on the next morning couldn't trigger a constantly youth movement. It was just a short hangover and in front of the actually election campaign none of the great parties is still considering a so called exit from Brexit. They are all together pushed in fear of losing their political power. Not a truly convincing behaviour. And on the continent we are building walls. Metaphorical in using strong and serious words against former friends and members (There would be no cherry picking!) and factual in building high fences against refugees. Not a truly convincing behaviour at all! So, did we really succeed?

Dear learning diary: The consulting day Part I This had been a very diversified weekend. At the first it started on friday with a consulting evening at the school, on wich the parents had the chance to met the teacher of their child and ask him about the marks and behavior. It always is a very special time for me because you never know what kind of parents gonna come to you and if the might have any complainments about your way of teaching. Sometimes you meet some weird and angry people, which are wanted to make you responsible for the bad behavior of their child. But to be honest these are quite rare situations and I nearly never have made really bad experience on a consulting day. All in all it had been very unagitated hours with mostly calm and nice parents. to be continued