Round pen work

Monday, April 13th. Mondays are my day off work, and we decided to visit some friends down the road. They have a panel round pen, and invited me to bring Tex out to their house. He loaded and unloaded very willingly from our straight load horse trailer. I let him loose in the round pen, let him get used to his surroundings while I enjoyed a glass of Mrs. Barbara's famous sweet tea, and then we began our first round pen lesson.
Tex seemed to remember a lot about the previous day's lungeing session. He trotted off easily when I kissed and glared at his hip. He easily stopped when I said "whoa" and stepped into the path of his shoulder. He even gladly faced me completely again, without me having to pull on his lead rope! I think that I may end up doing a combination cue for stopping- a bit of a tug and then stepping into his shoulder's path. I hope that will carry over during his riding, so that he can know that any pressure on his face means something. The same goes for the whoa.
On Sunday, I had asked him to do all of his turns toward me because of the lunge line. Monday, at liberty in the round pen, I asked him to turn away from me. He seemed a bit confused at first, because he thought he was doing what we had practiced the day before, but once he understood the concept, he did it correctly around 5-6 times. Now I'm thinking through how to cue an outside turn different from an inside turn.
I actually have a huge VHS set of John Lyons' first video series. Apparently they cover every monotonous hour of him breaking one horse from start to finish. I've only watched the first video while I had strep throat this past summer because it was the best thing to put me to sleep on the couch. However, I think I remember hearing within my sickly drowsiness something about how to cue an outside turn and an inside turn. Before I struggle through the old VCR rewind and fast forward buttons, does anyone have suggestions?

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