Located in a dream place, Castor Mountain Ski Resort is the most exclusive winter center of Argentina, located at the south hill of the Castor mountain, in Ushuaia, a place which is protected to the winds and its excellent snow can be compared to the snow in Moscu, Russia.
The ski tracks in Castor Mountain counts with the best preparation for winter, and from the 600 meters above the level of the sea, the ground is planted with grass to retain the snow when the defrost starts. In its 600 hectares, the ski resort has 24 ski runs and a snowpark, with a slope of 800 meters.
In Castor Mountain, everyone can learn the winter sports. It counts with a team of 60 instructors to teach ski and snowboard in individual or collective classes, or also more extreme styles, like ski off piste and mountain guides service, where the students will learn rescue techniques and risk management.
For children, Castor Mountain offers a Ski School until 12 years old. There are also a Snow Kindergarden for kids from 3 to 5 years old and an excellent nursery for babies from 2 months old to two years old, located in front of the ski runs.
Because of its features, Castor Mountain offers one of the longest ski season, going from june to the middle of octuber, with enough snow to practice ski and snowboard, always at -5 degrees to 5 degrees.
Castor Mountain is also the ski resort most visited by international ski teams, who train in its excellent ski tracks, with perfect snow. To guarantee this, the mountain counts with 10 canyons to generate artificial snow from the 480 meters to the base, so the thickness in the soil is always the ideal one.
It has the best ski lifts, with capacity to carry 2700 passengers, and the ski runs together have a length of 24 kilometers.
Castor Mountain also counts with Castor Ski Lodge, a wonderful lodging with 15 cabins, full equipped with services and amenities like bathrooms with hydro massage, living with chimney and satellital television, with different capacities depending on the number of passengers, from two to ten people.
In the mountain you can also enjoy of the exquisite gastronomy of Patagonia, with excellent restaurants such as Morada del Aguila, the place of the after ski, which is located in Villa Castor at the base of the mountain, with the patagonian lamb as its specialty. Snowbar is a coffee shop that is also in the base, with capacity for 80 people. Parador Cota 480 is distinguished by its delicious sweet preparations, buffet service and desserts and also its Sushi Bar. Parador La Barra is highest in the mountain, at 600 meters and exclusive for skiers.
Besides of these excellent services, Castor Mountain is located at just 26 kilometers away from Ushuaia, offering the possibility to visit the city and its lodgings, restaurant, artisan fairs and different activities. Discover Castor Mountain and the heights at the southernmost point of the world.
Tutoring and the supplemental education market has exploded throughout the US and Europe in the last 5 years and Newsweek Magazine hailed tutoring services as “an exploding market!”
The best part is you don’t have to have a teaching degree to be a private tutor! In fact, many tutors find opportunities to teach what they enjoy and love. They now can earn an amazing income from their new career simply by having the right personality, attitude and sufficient knowledge of their subject.
Starting your own tutoring business allows you to grow at your own pace, work when you want, and work with whom you choose. Getting started is easy and has very low start up costs. Having a proven outline to follow helps new tutors get started on their way to a successful money making business.
A tutoring business is ideal for moms, students, entrepreneurs or just about anyone who wants to own their own business and make the difference in a student’s learning career. Depending on the region, most tutors find they make anywhere from $40 – $70 dollars per hour. Tutoring can be done from your own home, at a local coffee house, at the student’s house or at a public library.
Detailed lesson plans are not necessary as a tutor because a tutor’s role is just simply to explain and reinforce the lesson plans already outlined by the teacher. Another bonus is that tutors typically get to work with the students who truly wish to improve and are motivated to do better.
Advertising costs are very minimal and include small newspaper ads, flyers, paying for a directory listing on the internet or on your city or county’s website. Some tutors choose to take it one step further and get their own website where they list their prices and give background information about themselves on their website.
Teachers and schools are a great source of referrals and once they get to know you will easily give out your name to potential customers. As challenges continue to grow in education, the need for a personalized tutor continues to grow. With many households having two working parents and the stress of day to day life, parents are happily paying tutors to work one on one with their children to ensure success in their academic studies.
Tutors who are enthusiastic about the subject they are tutoring will find they will succeed and have parents and teachers begging them to work with their students!
I started playing ball at Rice one year before Larry. My last known playing size was 6′3″ 245 lbs; Larry was listed at 5′11″ and 210 lbs. We were both fast and reckless on the field, talented, gifted, fundamentally sound, and strong. One of us made it pro, the other one didn’t.
When I was 4, my brother got a new Huffy for his birthday. I was still on an old bike with training wheels. Of course, I wanted to be on a new bike like my older brother. My parents lived paycheck to paycheck and did not want to buy a new bike for a 4 year old that didn’t even know how to ride. But I begged and pleaded anyway. To no avail. However, the silver lining to the “no” that I kept receiving was when my dad said, “Son, when you can ride a bike without training wheels, I’ll buy you a new bike.”
This past week while on vacation, I was spending the day, like most days off at the pool in my backyard. I’ve got 4 kids aged 12 ( Austin ), 10 ( Hunter ), 4 ( Taylor ), and 2 about to be 3 (Skylar). Now, Austin and Hunter are capable of swimming and staying out of any trouble in the pool. Taylor has recently learned and is very confident and capable in the water. We have to keep an eye on her just to make sure she doesn’t get herself into a jam. Skylar, on the other hand, is able to swim short distances of 10-15 feet. He feels most comfortable near the edge of the pool.
Throughout the week, I liked to challenge the older kids to underwater games like sitting on the bottom, standing on their hands the longest, walking on their hands, or simply, who can hold their breath the longest. I noticed Skylar many times hanging on the edge and dunking himself underwater only to come up quickly after to catch his breath. My wife, Tracy, said to me, “Look at him, he’s testing his limits.” I agreed proudly. As the days progressed, I noticed that he was letting go of the wall now, but would quickly grab it as he surfaced.
Then, on Thursday, I was sitting in the hot tub enjoying the laughter and splashing with my wife, Tracy. Without worry, I was keeping and eye on Skylar while he continued his plunge, release the wall, resurface and grab the wall. So he continued. Suddenly, he burst up through the water with enough energy to grab 100% of my attention. He was smiling immensely and could not wait to catch his breath until the water ran off his face. As he drew in his smiling breath through pool water running off of his head, he exclaimed, “DADDY! I TOUCH THE BOTTOM ALL BY M’SELF!”
Of course I praised him for his accomplishment thinking of how far he has come lately with his confidence and ability in the water. He continued. Then, I realized. This boy had a goal! He was excited because he had accomplished a goal! I turned to Tracy and asked, “when do we stop growing?” My wife is an extraordinary person in regards to knowing what she wants and getting it. She responded simply, that we hadn’t. I said, “No, humans adults, why do they stop growing?” She let me ponder that thought.
Over the next couple of days, I thought about the fact that we don’t actually ever stop growing and learning. It’s all about pain and pleasure no matter how young or old we are. Either we experience enough pain to stop what we are doing or we experience enough pleasure to continue. Pain, however, can stop us from taking risks. Trying the unknown can be painful so why should we try that? A toddler doesn’t have that choice. HE OR SHE MUST CONTINUE TO TRY THE UNKNOWN! It is in their genetic make-up or they will forever remain in that state. Why should we, as adults, stunt our growth by not trying the unknown?
During the past week, I have learned that my wife is superwoman. I have experience kids peeing, pooping, fighting, arguing, whining, falling down, running through the house only to run into someone else or something, getting cut, getting bruised, getting thirsty, getting hungry, eating, and getting hungry and eating again before I could ever eat a meal. In addition, my 2 year old has opened every board game owned in the Soward home (while I was napping) and scattered pieces throughout 2 rooms. And, let me mention that he also personally opened a Smithsonian Institute Crystal Growing Chemistry Set owned by my 10 year old and managed to spread the powder throughout my study, foyer, hallway, and 2 bedrooms. Believe me, he experienced a little pain to remind him not to do that again!
As I look back through the week and thinking of Skylar’s accomplishment in the pool and explorations in the home, it makes me realize this is simply the process that God intended. This is how we grow. Sometimes we are praised for trying something new. And there are times where we are hurt. No matter what the day brings, we are always growing and learning. The difference betweent the champions and losers is that champions apply the lessons learned.
Several years ago, I was speaking with my former teammate Larry after a UT-Rice football game. Larry now plays for the New England Patriots and was off that weekend. He has 3 Superbowl rings. He has been playing pro ball since 1996. He was undrafted after his college career ended. However, he was invited to attend the training camp for Jimmy Johnson’s Miami Dolphins. This was Jimmy Johnson’s first year coaching the Dolphins and was well know for his strict style. After the first pre-season game, Coach Johnson told reporters that only 2 people have made the team thus far, “Dan Marino and Larry Izzo.” You see, Larry was on the kick-off return team, not known for its glamour, and had knocked down an opponent running at him full speed. He got up and knocked down a second opponent. In the world of professional football and all of its talent and athleticism, only the spirt of a warrior and the heart of a champion could accomplish this.
Larry reminded me in our conversation that “only if I hadn’t gotten into the doghouse (with a former college coach)” I could have made it. Knowing what he knows now, I had the talent and the recklessness that needed to be had in order to be, at least, a special teams standout. It was bitter-sweet. Part of me wishes that he would have said that I wasn’t talented enough to make it rather than blaming it on the “doghouse.” You see, I put myself in that “doghouse.” At some point I committed my life to being what I called a ”fatally-flawed hero.” However, no one saw me as a hero. I drank and partied away my career because I was scared to set and miss a goal. I was no longer the 4 year old boy that was told, “When you can ride a bike, I’ll buy you one,” and learned to ride a bike without training wheels in less than a week. I was the guy with the talent, that the people with the heart wish they had the talent of. Several years ago, before Larry and I spoke I had come to realize this and turned my life around. It took me 12 years to get up and seek another opponent to knock down. Every now and then, I am reminded to have the spirt of a warrior and the heart of a champion. This week I was again by a 2 year old.
Like Larry, Skylar knocked down one goal last Thursday by touching the bottom of the pool and by Sunday had actually sat on the bottom of the pool while I watched him through my goggled eyes smile at me underwater because he had just knocked down his second opponent.
We face adversity each and every day. That is the Devil’s plan. God’s plan is for us to get up, show up, knock ‘em down, and knock ‘em down again. You have a goal and that is to be the best in all that you do. In faith, family and work, be the best that you can be. There are opponents in your way. Find out who or what is in your way and knock them down one at a time. But first, knock down the opponent in your mirror named Fear. Without taking that one out, the rest will simply run by you. Stand and believe on the words written and repeated mo
re than any other throughout the best selling book ever written, “Fear Not.”
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