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Slovenian President Janez Drnovšek.
Mr. Joel Schmidt of Brooklyn, New York, is currently on a mission: to correspond with each of the 200+ leaders of the world, compliment them on a job well done and request an autographed photo.
He still has a long way to go, but guess who was the fourteenth to reply? Hell, yeah! (Not exactly the leader of Slovenia — the president’s functions are largely ceremonial — but still.)
Mr. Schmidt also seemed to be confused by the word urad (it means "office") and the pronunciation of "Ljubljana." Then again, I’ve been here five years and still can’t say it right.
I wonder if he’ll get a reply from here?
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Nice idea. Just last week I embarked on something similar, involving correspondence to 251 countries, dependencies and territories. Not with world leaders though. For about six months during my senior year in high school, I took more than a passing interest in collecting autographs. I sent a few hundred letters to actors, politicians, musicians etc. (Including return postage was not only thoughtful, I learned, but had a direct correlation with the number of replies.) Got some interesting stuff back, all of which is still packed in boxes with my personal crap back in Cleveland. Some were authentic, probably more than half were not. I hope Joel realizes that probably 95%, if not more, of his photos will be signed by auto pen machines. Do you think Drnovsek has an auto pen machine?
I’m sure he does. But I’m not sure if he uses it anymore - especially given his newly discovered "save-the-world" attitude and an iclination to be the man of the people at the same time.
Drni actually looks pretty good on this official photo. It’s almost as though the stylist made him take that sour lemon he’s always sucking on out of his mouth (which must have been followed by tears and cries of protest from her client, I’m sure of it!) and really worked that St. Tropez self-tanner into every pore. Makes me think there might even be hope for J. Podobnik, if he should ever fall into the right hands!
<a href="http://worldcorrespondence.blogspot.com/2005/12/ireland.html">Bertie was 9th to reply!</a>
@Poulette: J. Podobnik is beyond all hope, I assure you
Even Drnie looks more like an alien straight from X-files these days. I covered a couple of his press conferences lately and all you see is a shadow standing close to you. Only when you look closely you go: "Oh, I’m sorry Mr. President, I didn’t see you there".But his phisycal appearance aside, I just so love his style as of late. Really, thumbs up, Janez!
Why? Why would you take the time to do this kind of thing? Can somebody help me out here please…
Pengovsky, may I add that I always did suspect Mr. Drnovsek and Mr. Burns (from the Simpsons) might have been separeated at birth…
Poulette, believe it or nor, we’ve also pondered that conspiracy theory in our Situation Room. However, since that would percipetate an active ivolvement by Mr. Matt Groening, we’ve formulated another theory: namely that Mr. Drnovsek and Ms. Vika Potocnik (remember her?) are in fact siblings. Thus extending the number od family members Drnovsek was previously unaware of
@mesni_sir: You mean trying to get an autographed memorabilia by heads of state? Well it doesn’t seem so far fecthed to me… It must must be a mid-life crisis. I can relate, since I’m on the verge of breaking out of puberty, and plunging myself directly into a mid-life crisis :)))
If you go to the entry on Luxembourg, you’ll see that Mr Schmidt can’t tell the difference between French and Luxembourgish.
Poulette & pengovsky, yesterday, yet unaware of your separated twins theory, I came to the idea that our dear Minister of Labour strongly resembles Mr. Burns from The Simpsons :))).I feel that this breathtaking coincidence deserves the theory being renamed to "The Lost Triplets".