November 4, 2010 in Bratislava

Our day started by going to the office Stan uses at the university to prepare and print out some English idioms for a game we are playing with the students tomorrow.  We bought a bagette at the student store and headed to Old town to check on the Christmas tree and decorations.  They were assembling a Christmas village and the tree was up............so, we are hoping everything will be lit this weekend before we head home.  While there we went to the chocolate cafe for our hot chocolate fix.  Today Stan ordered Cokolada bielas karame lom (white with caramel) and I walked on the wild side with Cokolada horkas cervenym kore nim (dark with chili pepper).  Yum!
This evening we were able to meet Maria Patakyova, a professor at the law school, for dinner. She is a very impressive woman and dedicated to her career, but also married and the mother of two young adult children.  She told us that she has received what amounts to tenure and was very pleased about that.  She is the person who coordinated Stan's teaching assignment here, along with her assistant, Veronica.
Later this evening we went to the Havana Club, a bar here at the dormitory, where we met Michel Luvidjansky and Tomas, students in Stan's American Law class.  They had wanted to interview Stan and so had some questions prepared and recorded the conversation. 
Stan especially enjoyed this evening as he got to talk about American Law and Slovakian Law and how they are so different and yet the same.  I have been happy to tag along and listen to the conversations without contributing too much, but I have very much enjoyed meeting these fine people who are the future of this country of Slovakia.