Thanks Tom,
I could not find it in my dictionaries. Some kids seem to get addicted to those little rings - we make one for display at school and for the theater group, the students can borrow it if they want it for carneval, city or castle festivals around here, so not every pupil gets his own. Nevertheless I am amazed how motivated they are, more than 50% of my two 7th grade classes appear as volunteers on the friday afternoons, 13/14 year old kids fascinated by the middle ages - I had a different experience at the school I had to teach first. Children/youths between age of 12 and 15 could not be motivated by anything. Here in the "Frankonian Forrest" (bavarian siberia, rural environment) the world seems to be still OK. Maybe the kids like making a mailshirt because their school is a grammar school and they lacked working with their hands.
However this was off topic - but I learned a new English expression.
Hope your tendonitis will get better some day - and I hope my "addicted" students will not develop tendonitis (some transform 20 meters of wire per day into chain-mail).
Thanks again
Andreas
