When I wrote the article “How far did debate come in your country” I wrote, how the status of debate in Slovenia is great, but I had no idea.
As you probably know, we have the presidency of the EU for a while now, and this also means, that all the big meetings are held in Slovenia. We are going to host the US president and his wife next week.
Why is this connected to debate? Well the US Embassy in Slovenia, that is preparing the program of the visit asked us, if we would like/could make a debate for Laura Bush. That means, that the Slovenian Worlds team for Washington and a couple other debaters will make a public debate (that will be closed for public ) for Laura.
They will debate on the motion “This house supports that voluntary community service becomes obligatory for higschool graduation.”, 2 vs. 2 with short two minute speeches and then we will also let a couple of debaters from the audience make a floor speech, and then we will invite the G. W. Bush’s wife to speak about the debate.
I’m sure it will be a great event. I will try to, at least, take a couple of pictures, and if possible make a video of it and post it here.
And I will of course write a follow up on this blog, so RSS it, and read about how the debate will go.