Sorry I haven’t written in a while but things have been pretty busy. Last week I went to a Soccer… excuse me Futbol match between the Spanish national team and England! (Yes, I saw David Beckham play) It was absolute insanity! I brought my camera of course but that ended up being my downfall. About 8 of us went together and we were walking into the stadium through these massive amounts of Spaniard and Englishmen and I stopped for a half a second to take a picture, and when I looked up, my friends were gone! Good job Erin, this is probably the worst place to lose your friends. Regardless, freaking out was going to do me no good, so I had my ticket and went to my respective gate. Since our tickets were only 10 euro (ridiculously cheap) that would make sense that the gate was for the English fans. Perfect, a sea of drunken Englishmen and me in the middle, in my Spanish Jersey with a Spanish flag painted on my face, all by myself. Praise the Lord I speak English and explained my situation to the English guys (luckily older, and not drunk) making fun of “the yankee” they ended up naming me. I explained it was my 1st soccer game ever and that I lost my friends. All of a sudden, a bottle smashed probably 3 feet away from me, and all these English fans (drunk of course) put up their hoods and started running at these Spanish fans. Not a good situation. I began to panic. Like clockwork about 20 spanish police showed up on horseback (we’re not talking little donkeys here, try stallions) and started pushing us around. My new English bodyguards surrounded “the yankee” and told me to keep my head down. The camera immediately was put away so I didn’t get any pictures of the insanity but luckily they just pushed us to another gate where I ended up finding my friends and thanking my English Saviors. The game was absolutely crazy too. People here don’t just root for their team, they LIVE their team, it’s part of their soul! Our seats were awesome too. Behind one of the goals and 7 rows up. It was epic and an awesome experience. (Churchy, you would have been in heaven)
This weekend I also went to Cordoba, a town about 2 hours away that has a sweet mosque with a cathedral build right in the middle of it. It’s really famous so if you care to know more just wikipedia it. I’d tell you but it’s all online. After that we went to a vineyard and went wine tasting. I learned I don’t like wine, in pretty much any form. But we only tried 3 so I’m sure there’s one out there I can tolerate. Aside from that, classes have started and hopefully my traveling will too! Hope everything is going well back in the states!
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Oh my God - what an experience at the soccer game! You're right, Churchy would have loved it. Everything is going ok back in Unionville. I'm working the girl's b'ball game tonight (Mon 2/16) for Senior night, BC won the Beanpot last week and Nick Bonino was selected as the Tournament MVP (pretty darn cool), Churchy plays her first softball scrimmage this coming Sunday at Wesleyan, T-man now has a LAX schedule with his first game on 3/20, Travis is heading to the XL Center tonight for the men's UConn vs Pittsburg game (GO HUSKY'S), Renee Montgomery's jersey # was retired at yesterday's game (the first to be retired while still active - the girl's team is totally unbeatable this year), Bill took Kim and I out to dinner for Valentine's dinner this past weekend, Tess just got her late winter grooming haircut and she look's beautiful, I'm looking forward to going to FL next month for Kim's spring softball trip - that pretty much catches you up with the latest on my end. Thanks for the occasional blog - I love reading them. Continue learning, having fun, and above all, staying safe - watch out for those drunk spaniards! Love ya Zuko - Mrs. Church
ReplyDeleteCorrection: BU won the beanpot; sore subject.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're having a blast. My comment just got erased so I'll make this one short and sweet.
Glad to see you're traveling now and trying wine (which is disgusting). We have to work out some get-together, hopefully over my spring break but I'll be in touch about that.
Glad you had a good experience at the football game, a little broken glass never hurt anyone so you're just stronger because of it. Watch "Green Street Hooligans" if you haven't already, you can now relate.
Love,
Dreads
Thanks for correcting my BC mistake to BU - I'm always getting those two mixed up. YES, it was Nick Bonino's school that won and that was BU.
ReplyDeleteLater Zuko - Mrs. Church
Haha, we have a BC student posting and a BU fan. That's interesting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the awesome Update Mrs. Church! I love hearing all the good news! You can think of it as your own little blog haha.
And Ben, I watched "green street hooligans" at your house... I'm glad it was such a memorable moment :) SO EXCITED FOR ITALY!!!
que tal zukes!!!! La clase de español que estoy tomando este semestre es fatal....ai mamita...saqué un 61 en el primer exámen y no me gusta en absoluto! Es aburridísimo y es me tercera clase durante el día los lunes, miércoles, y jueves...bueno...aparte de eso, el resto de mi vida va muy bien...espero que estés aprendiendo mucho español y disfrutando Sevilla...mi español ha empeorado tanto, ni siquiera sé si empeorar es una palabra!!
ReplyDeleteciao!
Ah, no te preocupes! Cuando miguel y yo regresemos a Los Estados Unidos, solamente hablaremos en espanol!
ReplyDeleteYeah... i'm slowly learning, and that was probably all wrong, haha but i could understand your message! Keep them coming! It makes me feel like i'm not a complete failure when i decifer them! Hope swimming and everything is going well, and don't worry your spanish grades will probably be curved!