Chocolate & Quiz...

The perfect combination ?

It did not take long, for Bob to start some kind of Quiz round, here in Burgenland. As his German is not in the league of " Quiz Master " yet, he did the next best thing...an English one !

Of course, the English one is actually for the older group of kids, that we have for English Conversation. The quiz itself is just a round of maybe ten words to translate into English, but Bob organized teams. The duty of scoring the hits and misses came to rest upon my shoulders..neutral like Switzerland ! But the kids like it.

At the moment, there is still the general confusion, as to whose question it was. Sometimes the answer gets shouted out in great excitement with no regard to the team. Great to see that they are getting better and better in English. From my side the work was not so easy. Every point that was scored ( or not ), one of the boys would run over to my side to watch where I put the tick. In fact they had memorized who had what, and were still double checking me.

It is amazing to realize just how clever children are, when they want to be. Bob had introduced chocolate for the winning team. The first few times, I bought the first chocolate that I saw, with no brand loyalty. No complaints yet.

Last week, I discovered Milka bars, with a sticker on it showing the chance to win Euro 1111. Never one to pass up a chance, I bought two. Before the boys arrived, I opened one bar, to see how the competition worked and also whether I had won.( NOT )
When Bob gave the other bar as a prize, I explained to the boys how special this bar of chocolate was. In fact, I made them open the wrapper and showed them where they had to look, in case they had won something...also not !

They seemed excited about this but, I thought, not overly so. Well, was I wrong. Yesterday, when Bob was handing out chocolate ( the shop did not have more of those ) to the various winners, we got a definite feedback.

The general response to getting a prize of chocolate was rather lukewarm. I even had a few questions, " Can you also win Euro 1111 with this ? "
" Where did you buy the other chocolate "
" Can you buy more of the other one ? " This is obviously something that parents the world over know already, and Bob and I just learned. Kids never forget a thing and we had better find some more of these Milka Bars...

Biggi

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