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[RC] ATTN ALL JUNIORS!!!! (...and sponsors!) - Rides 2 FarWell, I think all you shy juniors should stepforward and send something into the Endurancenews, or even just to your regional or >state newsletter. Share your stories or write something about what you've >learned, what you love about Endurance, what moves you, anything like that! Sorry to keep posting tonight, but as a member of the media committee I figured I should comment. We had a meeting at the convention and we discussed this very thing. I think the kids who know Merryben have been less shy about contributing, either because they know her...or because she's twisted their arm. >g< I can assure you that she'd love to have some voluntary contributions from juniors from all over. Anybody who has to meet a print deadline is happy to have somebody willing to take the load off. :-) I think one problem with *everyone* (adults & juniors alike) is that we don't want to look like we think "we're something" so would prefer to be asked to contribute rather than "nominate ourselves". So, how's this? We have 12 issues of EN. That means we could use up to 2 contributions per region per year. Sam, you were the top junior in the SE this year...would you like to write something by yourself...or play interviewer and interview several SE juniors and give a report or maybe debate an issue. Sound fun? :-) I think it would be kind of cool if instead of simply talking about "being a junior" you simply talked to the juniors...as if they were REAL people, and interviewed them about the problems, their training routines, etc. Interview as if this person were Val or Becky Hart. "So Sam, could you describe your average training week? (of course you could have junior type questions) How are your grades? How do you handle days off from school? Does your teacher let you make up the work at full credit? Some teachers allow extra credit if you keep a diary of a trip. (I've had my junior do all map reading before and figured it made up for some Social Studies classes.) Do you take lessons? Do you play other sports, or dance or anything else which you feel contributes to your riding skills? What are your goals? What direction do you hope AERC heads in? Get my drift? :-) By the way, my daughter Josie is on the following list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/endurance_jrs_USA/ and I highly recommend it. I've been very impressed with how well Jessica runs it. I highly recommended to EN that they get in touch with her since she seems to be the "Steph Jr." of the net. >g< Angie McGhee ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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