I led worship in Latvian recently. Thankfully, I had my semi-co-worker-missionary Seattlite friend, Marnie (member of Xenos) to help me with the tough songs.
Wait! Did you say Latvian songs?
Yes, kids, that’s right. I indeed sang in Latvian.
But, I didn’t think you could speak Latvian…
Well, I can’t too well yet, but the years I spent in Czech were a great preparation for being able to at least pronounce Latvian, since the two languages (along with several others) use almost the same alphabet. It was a lot of fun! I’m on again next Wednesday.
I’ve been frantically working on an ad to place in the Go! Manual, a yearly publication of YWAM ministry & schooling opportunities around the world. Somehow we came up with a guy named Janis (YAH-niss), a Jani (YAH-nyee) crown on his head, wearing a black tux, shades sitting in a red baby bath as a sleigh holding reins attached to a fluffy black cat. Sounds funny? Good! That’s the point! Wanna picture? Sorry…. you’ll have to wait until January when the next Go! Manual comes out to see it!
But I can give you pictures of our excursion to Ventspils, the richest city in Latvia.
~t
I live in Tyler, Texas.
Pump Cow! Bwahahahahaa
(How do you say pump cow in Latvian?)
Wonder how much to ship one of those cars back to the States. I love it. Tres classique!
pump cow in latvian: s?k?a govs
re: importing soviet car: umm, good luck, but you can phone up the guys at Latvian-American Shipping Lines & ask Mr. Pauls (visit their website http://www.lasl.com to get their number in Jersey). Tell him you want to ship a 1958-1968 Moskvich 401 to the US just as a show car (meaning it wouldn’t be street legal-only for show-believe me… I’ve done the research on importing cars to the US… t’ain’t easy).
Buying the actual car would be pretty cheap=~500 Lvl ($900 USD). You can research a bit on http://www.ss.lv or be brave & try out http://www.reklama.lv using http://dictionary.tilde.lv/ for the translation of stuff (or just ask me
).
You can also see the history of the Moskvich from the official Moskvich company website (sorry, Russian only… but cool pics) at http://www.azlk.ru/f_hist.html .