Czech women visit NU

Looking for

work this

summer

By FRITZ BUSCH

Journal Staff Writer

NEW ULM -- Two Czechoslovakian college students are visiting New Ulm this summer in hopes of finding summer work and learning more about our culture.

Patricia Dulkova and Jana Jelencikova are staying with the Eric Dulka family in New Ulm. Dulka's ancesotors hailed from Slovakia.

Both women are participants in the Work and Travel USA program, sponsored by the Council on International Education Exchange. They both have all necessary legal working documents and are looking for work.

Dulkova, who is attending Slovak Agricultural University of Nitra, which focuses on economics and management. Her major is accounting and auditing.

She has picked up interpersonal and administrative skills while working in a fast-paced environment, handling many different tasks.

Dulkova finds the food here much different than at home where large lunches and smaller dinners are the norm. Her interests include traveling, movies and theater.

Jelencikova is majoring in entrepreneurship and agricultural law at the same school.

Czechoslovakia is the home of two closely related Slavic groups, the Czechs and the Slovaks.

Most Czechs live in Bohemia and Moravia, two industrialized regions in western Czechoslovakia. The Slovaks live mostly in Slovakia, a more agricultural area in the east.

Czechoslovakia has a higher standard of living than most of Eastern Europe. Most people have television sets, refrigerators and cars.

More than two-thirds of the people live in urban areas. Most of them work in manufacturing industries.

In the late 1980's, the Soviet Union made reforms toward giving Czechoslovakia more freedom. In 1989, following large protests by the people demanding freedom of religion, speech and of the press, among other things, free elections, the Czechoslovak Communist Party ended its government domination.

Non-communists won a majority of the legislative seats in Czechoslovakia's first free elections in 1990.