Futbol Fever

3:15 pm today - fireworks are going off in my neighborhood.

Mexico has just beat France 2-0 in its second game of the World Cup.
We are now tied with Uruguay in our group - 4 points each.
We'll see on Tuesday how things turn out head-to-head!

For those of you who know me well, a blog about soccer is probably the last thing you would ever have expected out of me. But like with a million other things this year, I have learned to appreciate, perhaps even enjoy, some extremely cultural things that I wouldn't necessarily get into if I was in the States! One of those, this year, is soccer.

Saturday morning (lucky as I was to be in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas), I managed to make it to a coffee shop by about 9 am, just as the festivities were getting going in South Africa. Lucky us here in Mexico, we got to play the opener against the host country of South Africa! It was exciting to watch the game in a little coffee shop with bunches of other fans (below is a picture of the place i watched it in.) Miraculously, we tied (i think that was a victory for us)!
Today I watched the game against France in my house with some of the extended family. Although I missed the first half because of a meeting at school, I missed none of the excitement. I got to see both goals in the second half.

Here is my rocking team: "Ponte el verde!" (jason and dad, you'd better be wearing your jerseys i sent you these days!)-->

It's fun to be in a country where futbol is the ONLY sport (anyone cares about at least) during the World Cup. I can promise, in the last week I have watched more soccer on television than I have in total in my life before. I'm a changed person :) ha. I hope you all are enjoying the games too!