I've done plenty of research into this and now I am certain what I say is 100% true, there are still parts I don't understand but that's the reason I wrote this report, so others could give me their own theories. It was probably three weeks he was gone, he left during Christmas break and actually missed the holidays that year but he loved it, so we were OK with it. So fast forward to the day he got back from Brazil he could've skipped about a week of school justifiably but: 1. * He had his first game and 2. * He wouldn't miss school for the world.