If you click on the “Music Together” tag below or to the right, you’ll find a lot of posts about Jana’s Music Together preparations. She’s been hoping to use this music and movement program for preschoolers as a way of building bridges in the community. There are other things Jana does and could do, but she loves Music Together and we think it’s a great way to teach music and build relationships.
Pretty much since we’ve arrived in Slovakia Jana has been working on getting her Music Together program going. She calls it “Malí muzikanti” which is something like “Little Minstrels” in Slovak.
It’s perhaps more of a challenge than we anticipated.
A nice movie about Europe made by Europeans. It consists of a slideshow with photos from every country in Europe, then at the 2:20 mark it has some information about Europe that you may not have known. The Video comes courtesy of Mission-Net.
It’s finally time to close out the chapter on our 2011 transition to Slovakia. Of all the overseas transitions that Jana and I have experienced in moving from Slovakia to the US (1995), from the US to Slovakia (2001), back from Slovakia to the US (2005), and now from the US to Slovakia again, this was by far the most challenging. Continue reading…
9:30 am on Wednesday, September 7th at the foreign police office in Banská Bystrica, the police officer is rolling her eyes in disbelief and sighs with a sense of compassion.
Foreign Police Officer (FPO): So close. It’s too bad it didn’t come sooner.
Todd: It’ll be here tomorrow, I’ve got it set up for official translation tomorrow night and we can have it in your office first thing on Friday.
As usual, the visa process is coming down to the wire. It never fails. There is always something about it that brings you face to face with the barbarous beast of bureaucracy. You might remember I called it Kafkaesque. It turns out that’s actually a word.
Kafkaesque: Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
People are all the time asking us if Elisabeth and Max are excited about the move to Slovakia and all I usually have to say is the standard, “Uhhh, yes and no.” So I thought I’d do a short interview with them so you can hear just how they would answer themselves.
Have you wondered what Jana’s Music Together classes are like? I suppose it’s hard to imagine how you can offer music classes to children from birth to kindergarten. What are those kids able to even do? I’m sure my descriptions don’t do it justice nor even the few videos (and here) that we’ve posted in the past. Here’s another video that might help fill in the picture.
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