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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 547471" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>difficult child has apparently been busy doing things they actually are there to do for, so no new observations (I think I will get more of those when he comes home in few days. I think he is planning to spend a night at home before heading off to his own home.)</p><p></p><p>Someone mention what a great opportunity this kind of travelling is for him and I have to agree. I think it is even better than if it would be a family vacation. Kids learn so much when they travel with the team. And organizer of these events usually do their best that visiting teams would see and learn a lot and not only spend their time in sport arenas and hotels. And they do mingle with kids from other teams. Even if difficult child's sport career wouldn't go much further from here and he would never be able to even stabilize his place in the level he is now and would be back to school in few years, these experiences are worth the every penny we have put onto his sport and every hour I have been driving him around for it. I just hope that easy child would be able to make it to these same experiences. When difficult child was always rather clear cut select (even during his most troublesome year, very soon after he had got caught and after his troubles clearly effecting his performance, he was selected), easy child is right there around the cut line. If it's just his year, he is likely to be in, but the coolest opportunities are usually so that most talented from younger age groups take some spots (for example difficult child has made it to the team while two years under-aged) and then easy child is likely to drop. I do hope he will have a great season, not so much because I would hope him to have future in pros, but because I do hope he will be able to make a cut to all these cool travels <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I also got interested about the cereals and while in the supermarket yesterday (and this is a big supermarket) I took a close look to our cereal section. It really isn't big. Maybe 30 feet, in one side. Half of it is muesli, then ten feet of those boring healthy cereals and only 5 feet of sugary, chocolaty or just plain rise cereal low on fibre. On the other side of the aisle there is much more than that 30 feet all kinds of porridge options, both instant, quick and those you need to boil an hour. (My absolute favourite porridge is one of those that take a long time to cook, barley porridge cooked in milk is just delicious. Unfortunately I usually have enough time for it only in Saturdays.) But that of course is a matter of tastes. I like porridge better than those healthy cereal options, so that is what I eat. And around here most seem to agree, so porridge is sold much more. I do eat muesli but usually not for breakfast, but for a snack with yoghurt and not that much at the time. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is something I wanted to also address. I find it very cool how well your school teaches kids to present. There has been a lot of talk around here about it, because we tend to be especially bad in giving presentations and in selling. We have great engineers, but no one seems to know how to sell, not even when the product is actually very good. I know some teachers who have already started to incorporate these 'show and tell' exercises to their pupils and I do hope that will become more of the trend. Maybe in future also in sports our kids can in fact look the camera and not fidget when giving an interview. Now it is in some cases almost painful to watch how obviously uncomfortable some are. My difficult child is not even the worst, though he is afraid of his own team's radio interviewer who once put him in quite a spot (probably not on purpose, they usually don't torment 18-year-olds from the home team after the very good game just for the heck of it.) In fact he presents himself almost better in interviews than in real life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 547471, member: 14557"] difficult child has apparently been busy doing things they actually are there to do for, so no new observations (I think I will get more of those when he comes home in few days. I think he is planning to spend a night at home before heading off to his own home.) Someone mention what a great opportunity this kind of travelling is for him and I have to agree. I think it is even better than if it would be a family vacation. Kids learn so much when they travel with the team. And organizer of these events usually do their best that visiting teams would see and learn a lot and not only spend their time in sport arenas and hotels. And they do mingle with kids from other teams. Even if difficult child's sport career wouldn't go much further from here and he would never be able to even stabilize his place in the level he is now and would be back to school in few years, these experiences are worth the every penny we have put onto his sport and every hour I have been driving him around for it. I just hope that easy child would be able to make it to these same experiences. When difficult child was always rather clear cut select (even during his most troublesome year, very soon after he had got caught and after his troubles clearly effecting his performance, he was selected), easy child is right there around the cut line. If it's just his year, he is likely to be in, but the coolest opportunities are usually so that most talented from younger age groups take some spots (for example difficult child has made it to the team while two years under-aged) and then easy child is likely to drop. I do hope he will have a great season, not so much because I would hope him to have future in pros, but because I do hope he will be able to make a cut to all these cool travels :winking: I also got interested about the cereals and while in the supermarket yesterday (and this is a big supermarket) I took a close look to our cereal section. It really isn't big. Maybe 30 feet, in one side. Half of it is muesli, then ten feet of those boring healthy cereals and only 5 feet of sugary, chocolaty or just plain rise cereal low on fibre. On the other side of the aisle there is much more than that 30 feet all kinds of porridge options, both instant, quick and those you need to boil an hour. (My absolute favourite porridge is one of those that take a long time to cook, barley porridge cooked in milk is just delicious. Unfortunately I usually have enough time for it only in Saturdays.) But that of course is a matter of tastes. I like porridge better than those healthy cereal options, so that is what I eat. And around here most seem to agree, so porridge is sold much more. I do eat muesli but usually not for breakfast, but for a snack with yoghurt and not that much at the time. This is something I wanted to also address. I find it very cool how well your school teaches kids to present. There has been a lot of talk around here about it, because we tend to be especially bad in giving presentations and in selling. We have great engineers, but no one seems to know how to sell, not even when the product is actually very good. I know some teachers who have already started to incorporate these 'show and tell' exercises to their pupils and I do hope that will become more of the trend. Maybe in future also in sports our kids can in fact look the camera and not fidget when giving an interview. Now it is in some cases almost painful to watch how obviously uncomfortable some are. My difficult child is not even the worst, though he is afraid of his own team's radio interviewer who once put him in quite a spot (probably not on purpose, they usually don't torment 18-year-olds from the home team after the very good game just for the heck of it.) In fact he presents himself almost better in interviews than in real life. [/QUOTE]
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