You don't say 'no' to offers like this, it's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I definitely wanted to take it. Yesterday I flew to Riga and we signed all the needed paperwork.
This situation will also benefit my Latvian students, Diana Nikitina and Deniss Vasiljevs, who both were recently feeling quite homesick. Also, Deniss graduates this summer and plans to continue his studies at the University of Latvia, at the Faculty of History and Philosophy.
The Skating School of Switzerland will continue to function. Both Anna (Bernauer-Dierking) and Robert (Dierking) will be running it, with the help from Salome (Brunner) and Peter (Grütter) when needed, and I plan to visit at least 2-3 times a month.
http://absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=articles&id=2018lambieltolatvia
Good luck to Stéphane in his new endeavour, especially with learning Latvian!
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