He first found two foreign-national teachers in the department to serve as his advisors. Unfortunately, a Greek instructor who was a good fit with Kocourek resigned during the student's second semester there. The other foreign instructor was Vietnamese, and Kocourek got on well with him too, but the instructor's research focus was too theoretical to hold Kocourek's interest.
他先找了系上 2 位外籍老師指導，可惜和他頗為投緣的希臘老師第二學期就離職，另一位越南籍老師擅長理論研究，人也很好，但他覺得那不是他的興趣，也因為幫不上老師的忙而頗為沮喪。