It is all set. Laura already came to Slovenia and is probably enjoying our hospitality in Brdo pri Kranju (just a fancy place where all the “important” guests sleep). She will be walking around Slovenia to see all the places that she missed at her first visit to Slovenia, and more.
On Tuesday she will come to the national museum, where she will attend a debate. As far as I heard the debate is going to take place right next to one of the first printing mashines used in Slovenia to print something in Slovenian, so really a great place to support the debate as a whole.
Four great debaters and two more as floor speakers all from high school, and around 20 primary school debaters in audience and the wife of Slovenian president ms. Türk. And me YEY
I arranged that we will be able to make a recording of the first 10 or something minutes of the debate, so you will be able to see the whole thing, sadly they want to close the debate down for public later, that also means that we won’t be allowed to film anything else.
The debaters will debate on the topic how voluntary community service should be obligatory for high school graduation. The US Embassy and White house, with whom I exchanged probably 100 emails in the last week, wanted to see the arguments up front and we have a rehearsal tomorrow, where they expect the debaters to make their speeches. They are worried, that we do not destroy the friendliness with our freedom of speech.
They probably remember all the hard questions that we asked the US ambassador in Slovenia when he (actually both of them, the current and the previous) visited University students at the IDAS, and they do not want us to do the same thing to ms. Bush. Well, this is why the University students are not invited. Shame, I know.
Well, I’ll let you know how it goes.

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