Any foreign exchange students around here?

[merithyn]

I'm pretty sure that you're really not supposed to drink at all if you have type I diabetes.  Certainly my diabetic fellow curler never, ever drinks, and having a drink after curling is a pretty deeply ingrained part of the game.

Some brief googling suggests it can be safe to drink in moderation (1-2 max per day) if your blood sugar is well under control.   

Yeah, that's my understanding as well. Until now, it was a non-issue. He had no interest in drinking at all. If he's showing an interest in seeing what it's like, I'd much rather I had some control in this experimentation than that he try it with his friends. That way, I can have him try to take his blood sugar after a drink or two to show him how hard it is to do and what affect the alcohol has on his blood sugar.

I'm lucky that he's waited this long to ask. And that he's asked me rather than just experimenting on his own. 

[The Brain]

OK now I'm thirsty.

[Zanza]

Unless he is some kind of social outcast, you can expect him to drink alcohol with his peer group. That's what people in his age do in Europe.

[Josquius]

Yeah. Whether its the smart well behaved kids or the scum everyone drinks, its just normal behaviour. If there's a medical reason though I doubt he'd become an outcast for not drinking.

I've a diabetic friend who drinks regularly and he's alright as long as he sticks to one or two. Once he got wasted though and...well it was a close call.

[Richard Hakluyt]

He is to go to Germany for a year, not have a beer and not get "romantically involved" with anyone 

Back in the day a lot of Germans I knew would confine themselves to just a couple of beers, admittedly on a more or less daily basis. Perhaps that culture has changed, Zanza will know.

Of course he might be the sort of person who, once he has two, has a couple more..........which could be dangerous.

A typical German beer is 5% btw, no different to American beer in that respect......what annoys about the likes of Budweiser is that it has all that alcohol in it and tastes like gnat's piss.

[katmai]

Bud light

[Zanza]

Back in the day a lot of Germans I knew would confine themselves to just a couple of beers, admittedly on a more or less daily basis. Perhaps that culture has changed, Zanza will know.

My experience suggests that not drinking during the week and binge drinking on weekends is what 18 year olds do.

[Eddie Teach]

A typical German beer is 5% btw, no different to American beer in that respect......what annoys about the likes of Budweiser is that it has all that alcohol in it and tastes like gnat's piss.

Never really understood this, why is stronger tasting piss a good thing?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Back in the day a lot of Germans I knew would confine themselves to just a couple of beers, admittedly on a more or less daily basis. Perhaps that culture has changed, Zanza will know.

My experience suggests that not drinking during the week and binge drinking on weekends is what 18 year olds do.

Apparently even the French youngsters are like that nowadays, Europe is becoming a monoculture 

[merithyn]

Back in the day a lot of Germans I knew would confine themselves to just a couple of beers, admittedly on a more or less daily basis. Perhaps that culture has changed, Zanza will know.

My experience suggests that not drinking during the week and binge drinking on weekends is what 18 year olds do.

Apparently even the French youngsters are like that nowadays, Europe is becoming a monoculture 

No different than in the States, then. Good to know.

[Duque de Bragança]

My experience suggests that not drinking during the week and binge drinking on weekends is what 18 year olds do.

Apparently even the French youngsters are like that nowadays, Europe is becoming a monoculture 

What's more worrying, is this phenomenon showing up in Southern Europe as well. It's not as all of France was wine country anyways.

[merithyn]

Jeremy's first interview with the Rotary Club is this evening. I guess I should say that OUR first interview, since the parents are part of the process from beginning to end.

I'm a nervous wreck, but Jeremy seems relatively calm. I wish I had that kid's nerve. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

It's great to be 17, the world is at your feet 

[Eddie Teach]

It's great to be 17, the world is at your feet 

That's not quite how I recall it. 

[MadImmortalMan]

It's great to be 17, the world is at your feet 

That's not quite how I recall it. 

Me either. I think we did it wrong.