FU(tbol)N

In Spain, in order to have a dull day, a person only has to stay in their room and not socialize. To have a fun day the only thing a person has to do is to step out into the wild and get their feet wet. Today, for me, i jumped in the ocean of fun in Spain. 

Today started out with sleep, i like to take a Sabbath's rest literally and enjoy the rest that God gives in times of stress and strangeness. But after i lived God, for sabbath school a few folks and i got together and sang sabbath songs that we all knew in english and spanish. Had lunch, which i was fairly unimpressed with, and then commenced the afternoon with playing Phase 10. Most of the people got to a fairly good "phase" by the time we had to end. 

We sadly had to end phase 10 because of an event which is unique to Europe, but is humongous in Espana, futbol! I had signed up for a Valencia vs. Espana futbol game for tonight! The game was in Valencia so the group of us got in the bus, picked up the people that were attending  a bible credit class, which was a camping trip over the topic of sex. I'm pretty sure they were relieved to come to the futbol game! When we got at the stadium finally, after climbing the total height of the stadium, Valencia had just gotten their first goal, tying the game 1-1. There were a lot of people there, duh, and it was the classic scene that you see on TV. Everyone was yelling cheers, chants, and revelries while decked out in their Valencian or Espana gear. The spectacle was quite entertaining and interesting from a sociological view. There were people yelling the total length of the game, people in our group were like "how can they yell that amount of time" and i thought about it, maybe its because they've been raised with the yelling, and its just thing thing that you do when you come to a game? practicing once or twice a week, their voices would probably get used to it! 

Yes, the game in whole was very entertaining for me, as an American raised on baseball. But the last 5 minutes were the most interesting out of the whole game while each of the teams were trying to get out of a tie. Many things progressed. 1. yellow cards were given for such things as tripping people, 2. RED cards were given for headbutting, mooning, yelling at the ref, 3. goalies getting a work out. 

In whole this day has been one for the books folks! FIRST futbol game....thats pretty big for me :D

Afterwards we went to the mall in Valencia until late and walked around goofed off in stores and talked to people i dont normally talked to, that was fun :D