You have probably heard about BBC plans to close the Asian Network and 6 Music, and rename BBC Radio 7 to BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Not sure about the validity of this, but Chris Evans has retweeted a link, suggesting that some BBC News staff (particularly those in the political department) have been told not to go away this weekend, as they are on “Red Alert” for the election call.

I have just read on the BBC Press Office website about the latest change to Radio 2’s schedule.

In my German class recently we’ve been studying the German school system. Its quite an interesting topic, because its different to the English system. For my oral exam (which will take place in April), I’ve chosen the school system as my topic… well the other alternative was Health & Fitness and that’s a bit boring.

I attempted cooking a Greek meal on Tuesday! It was basically, meatballs in tomato sauce: «Κεφτεδάκια με Σάλτσα» is the Greek name.

I got back to the UK on Saturday evening, following my week in Cirencester’s twin town of Itzehoe, in Northern Germany.

The week is now over, and I have done my last day of work experience at Kindergarten Tagelhörn. Today, they had their “Faschingsfest” (carneval)… I’m still not sure exactly what it was about.

After the 4th day of work experience at Kindergarten Tegelhörn, I returned back to the house. The Sophie-Scholl Gymnasium was closed, and by the fact that both Matt and Tom were signed in to their Facebook accounts when I logged on to the computer, I figured that the Grundschules in which they were working were [...]

There has been more snowfall overnight. Its fallen on top of the snow which fell for most of yesterday, which fell on top of snow which fell before I got here.

I woke up this morning to find it was snowing. Apparently that’s normal for Itzehoe at this time of year. It was also very cold – apparently down to -10 last night!