Why are there so few photos of the supporters?
The training sessions have been "Closed" which means the parents are politely "not invited". so whle I'm there taking lots of photos of the coaches, management and team members, there ain't any supporters around.
A further small problem is that they generally hate me pointing my camera anywhere near in their direction I have to pretty much resort to "stalking" them from a long distance away.
So that you know they do exist, here's some photos of them at Le Pub (on campus) last night and relaxing tonight in the warm evening air.
Breakfast routine
Breakfast is at 7.30am. The cafetaria is in another building about a 100 metre walk from here. Starting this morning we set up the datashow (kindly loaned to us by Greg Skinner from Epson) and show the previous day's photos plus the new messages from the website. It's a great way to get everyone excited for the day. This morning we also played Jeremy's Impact video compilation which went down a treat. You can watch it from the "Highlight Reel" on the Impact website.
The training sessions have been "Closed" which means the parents are politely "not invited". so whle I'm there taking lots of photos of the coaches, management and team members, there ain't any supporters around.
A further small problem is that they generally hate me pointing my camera anywhere near in their direction I have to pretty much resort to "stalking" them from a long distance away.
So that you know they do exist, here's some photos of them at Le Pub (on campus) last night and relaxing tonight in the warm evening air.
Breakfast routine
Breakfast is at 7.30am. The cafetaria is in another building about a 100 metre walk from here. Starting this morning we set up the datashow (kindly loaned to us by Greg Skinner from Epson) and show the previous day's photos plus the new messages from the website. It's a great way to get everyone excited for the day. This morning we also played Jeremy's Impact video compilation which went down a treat. You can watch it from the "Highlight Reel" on the Impact website.
Have you seen the other teams?
Most of the other teams are staying in hotels a few miles away from us so we have had very little contact with them. This afternoon the juniors headed down to the mall for a while and they saw a few other teams wondering around in their track suits.
Here at the university there are 83 kiwis and maybe 20 others. Peru and Columbia teams arrived here a couple of days ago. Today we were joined by Spain (x4) who have another 3 arriving from another region of Spain tomorrow. Carolina helped me have a short conversation with them - she's amazing at Spanish! Paraguay also appeared here today.
We expect to see more teams come and check out the PEPS sports centre tomorrow.
Are the team members allowed to try out the climbing wall?
No, for obvious reasons ;-)
Hair dying
You may have noticed a few remaining members of the team having their hair "professionally" dyed in-house. I don't know much about it but I think there's been a bit of halarity surrounding the process.
When does the competition action start?
Tomorrow is our last "preparation day" as the tournament opens on Thursday 31st and goes through until the end of Sunday. Now, this is our time here in Quebec but for you kiwis back home, your first news will be on Friday morning your time which will be about 3pm our time. We hope to sedn through news flashes from my mobile phone with full reports being produced in our evening. So late afternoon, evening you'll have the full story.
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When will you know the draws etc?
I don't know the answer to this yet. I suspect we'll learn tomorrow.
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