Photos 2
[one] [two] [three]



A sunrise from the train, on our way to Prague one morning
The main train station in Prague!
A street in the Old Town part of Prague, Czech Republic
The national museum, in the heart of Prague
One of the many beautiful castles, churches and palaces of Prague
Another beautiful site!
In Prague
In Prague
The famed "Astronomical Clock" in the Old Town part of Praha
The LCMS volunteer missionaries, with supervisor Rev. Rick Blythe, in Praha
Our first night in Prague was spent at an American restaurant called "Buffalo Bill’s"!
My good friend Daniel, volunteer in Tisovec, Slovakia, and I as we munch on cheesecake!
Another good friend from Concordia-Irvine, Tara, now a volunteer in Gyor, Hungary, after a haircut in Prague
My sekunda (6th grade) student Adam, making an ‘egg’ mask for Halloween!
Zuzka and Barbara with their masks
Half of my 6th grade class with their Halloween masks!
The other half!

A card given to me by my kvarta, or 8th grade, students at the Halloween party thrown in honor of me


The inside of the card, signed by my kvarta students
My friend Kristin, volunteer in Poland, visiting me in Bratislava for a weekend!
Bratislava at night; can you find me standing there?

A day trip to Vienna! Beautiful palaces and great Viennese coffee houses!
I love these little cars!! We saw them all over Vienna

Still wearing the traditional clothing of old,
Grandma is a sweet old woman!
Tara drinking her coffee with a straw at a famous coffeehouse in Budapest
"What are you thankful for?" Students answered that question on the feathers of the turkeys they made!
The bulletin from the Thanksgiving Eve service I attended at the English-speaking church here in Bratislava
Lots of sheep! All being herded along the side of a hill in Tisovec, Slovakia (pop. 5,000)
Daniel singing along to "I Will Survive"- he’s got some great lip-synching abilities…a career in the works maybe?
My "new" "oven" (Quotations intentional!) I still don’t know what this is officially called, as it is not a regularly used item in Bratislava, at least, but I CAN make brownies and cookies and frozen pizza in it!
Chocolate chip cookies! They turned out much better than I expected!


My “Christmas tree” with a few gifts “underneath”, on one of the shelves of my bookcase!