This picture was made at the conference called Problems of translating and interpreting. The conference was put on by Charles University in Prague.
After returning home from sanatorium in 1948, I decided that I should study because I hadn't even finished my elementary school education. First of all I went to English lessons and then I resumed my piano lessons.
During the next year I started to prepare for entrance exams for high school, so I would have a proper education.
The professor friend of my father's became my guardian and gave me support. But he wasn't too keen when said that I wanted to continue with my studies.
I was quite stubborn, though, so I managed to complete my high school education after many difficulties and got a place at the Arts Faculty of Charles University in Prague, where I studied German and Czech. I was given a full disability pension at the time.
I found a place at a high school in Caslav, where I taught German from 1956. In the meantime, my husband Petr finished his studies and got a job at the Mathematics Institute in Prague.
In 1960 Petr was offered a job in Dubna near Moscow, so we went there with our children. In the meantime, I got a place at a language school and promised that I would be back at the beginning of the school year.
So I returned with my children in August 1961 and Petr came back for Christmas. In 1965 we went to Ghana, as the Mathematics Institute offered Petr a job teaching mathematics at the university there.
We stayed for three beautiful years in Africa. I taught German there and, for a while, Russian. Our children did not go to school for the first year, as I taught them at home. Zuzana went to the first grade, Rita to the fourth.
We then moved to the university campus, and then they went to a school that was for university staff. We returned to Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1968.
