We've been busy receiving information from my son's host Rotary club in the Slovak Republic lately. The biggest news to start with was that he will be living in Semsa, a village of 750, to start his journey. That's a big difference from the metropolitan area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Yet, when we looked where his school was located, we discovered it is Kosice, the second largest city in the country and comparable to what Aaron, our son, is used to.

Just yesterday we heard from the mother of his host family and discovered that she is a medical doctor and the father is in a business which includes a hockey warehouse. With Aaron just having returned to the ice after a four year hiatus, he is excited to hear the news that his host family has a hockey connection. The family has one son, a 15 year old, who also plays the sport.

As we prepare to watch our boy graduate from his American high school tomorrow, we are increasing aware that August will be here before we know it, and we will be escorting him to an airport.

No doubt his wings will sprout as the airplane's own wings lift him from the soil of this continent.

(Map credit to University Bible Fellowship)

(Semsa is located in the lower left portion of the map.)