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.
Well, well, well. I made an inquiry into my visa situation at a non-government organization that helps foreigners in Slovakia with their visas. Specifically, I asked them how long this process usually takes.
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.
On June 7 my dad and I packed our boxes of belongings into his horse trailer (power washed) and dropped them off at Perfect Express by the airport in Chicago.
We’ve now been in Slovakia for a little more than one week. It’s been quite an adventure so far with our main adjustments coming in the area of the kids’ school, my visa arrangements, and Jana’s Music Together project. In this post I’ll stick to talking about the kids’ adjustments to Slovakia.
Our March, 2011 family and ministry update is now available. Of course it is now May, but I was holding off because I wanted to share the news of our departure in this edition. Besides that great news, I also have my first ever dissertation progress report and an update on Jana’s Music Together.
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.
Interesting story. Maybe even funny, but not very.
I’ve written in other posts about the power of presence and how I wish I had more contact with my students. This year I had a rare opportunity to meet one of my current students face to face. The first time I met him in person was last year–at least that’s the first time I remember meeting him.
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