Jarmila Mikešová

"I also remember working in the Hus choir here at the church. Mr. Janda came to me, he was already a gentleman in his old age, and told me that he was going to make a bust of Hus and that he was going to write some statement of his. And that he didn't dare to do it because it was standing on the stairs with stepladder with one foot on Hus' head. So I did it, but if I had fallen down at the time - I was pregnant with my second boy - it probably would have turned out badly."

"But yeah, I liked it, I just didn't like having to go to boarding school. My father arranged that for me. Because I was an only child and I wasn't used to a big group, I suffered there. Now they shut you down for a week in that boarding school, and I had to stay there until 5 p.m., and I didn't go out any more. Except I had to show my student book once a week, and if I was a worse student they wouldn't let me go anywhere, not even to the cinema. I can't say that I had any problems with learning, I studied well, but I had no desire to wander around Hradec. You didn't even have the money for that, your parents only gave you enough to get to Hradec Kralove and back."