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Nathan Chen

Hope Nathan is feeling ok ... :pray:

Yale - ‘The family decided so’. I’m not under the impression Raf lobbying for Nathan to set school aside. Raf just tells it like it is: ‘I just tell the truth: I call white white, and black black.’

Coaching long distance via Skype, though Nathan said FaceTime
- must be super challenging for them both.
I am not under the impression RAF lobbying against setting schools aside either, but I do sense there was some frustration over the coaching and training situation, starting with the NBC interview back in October. I don’t believe much of Nathan’s words concerning FaceTiming with RAF in either Liza’s interview or Ice Desk interview. It just sounds impossible to me to capture all his movements with his phone on the boards, plus should RAF be busy with coaching other students during the day?especially considering the time differences unless Raf set aside coaching time for Nathan everyday. Need to go back to Raf’s TSL interview to find out his schedule. I guess Nathan really loves Yale and just doesn’t like to answer questions about distant coaching. That is why he tries to sound more positive in every interview. After all, he is a more positive person anyway while RAF as a coach is more realistic and blunt, with high expectations/standards for his students.

On a lighter note, Nathan does pay some of the stuff he owns. That “get this bread shirt” seems to be Yale student shirt for that historic Harvard–Yale game on the 17th. Poor Nathan missed that game, and Yale lost by quite some margin :(

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hopefully Nathan is doing much better tomorrow.
 
Raf just wants him back in Cali, which is understandable but Nathan obviously loves Yale, which is understandable. It's a challenge, but if there is any time to try to have a normal school life and try this crazy training schedule it's now. If this were 2020 I'd be freaking out, but right now I think the life experience can help his skating as well. Nathan obviously knows this can't continue forever and has mentioned leaving school in the future, especially if he truly does want to go to the OG in 2022.

And Raf might be frustrated but he's being rather quiet in his frustrations. We all know he can and has said more in the past when he's upset about something. :laugh:
 
Happy thanksgiving to those that celebrate. I’m sharing this amazing three cheese layer baked Mac & cheese in spirit 😂
 
I really should go to bed as Nathan’s SP is in like 6 hrs

But he will be practicing soon!
 
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