Monday, February 22, 2010

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So last night me and a few hostel buddies rolled out to see Mendoza take on the fury of Buenos Aires bad ass hail to be reckoned with Boca Juniors. I say hostel buddies cause you meet people in the hostel and sometimes you meet cool peeps and sometimes its more aquaintance style. Although there was Richard a bloke from England who was really cool! So we grab a cab and they drop us off right in front of the stadium. Perfect!!! No Walking! All I do is walk so this will be a great break considering we will be STANDING in the ...i dunno end zone, goal zone...wtf do they call it??? As soon as we get out of the cab we hear the drums...boom boom boomboomboom and the trumpet and the singing. We look over to see the crowd jumping the flags waving the crowd just loving it. The game dosn´t start for 30 min. This is when we find out that thats the Boca Juniors side. We have to walk to the other end...Simple enough not a big stadium. A mile and a half later we get to the gate... But its cool were happy to roll in. We get into the stadium and as i walked through the tunnel it was like every movie in America where they say how the grass was so green! It hit me like nothing before, so strange to see this different type of field with the goal, the fences and then the look to the right and the Mendoza crowd going crazy. The crowd was loud, the banners were bright and you could tell that this was life to these people. I am sorry but American Football has nothing on this crowd performance. Maybe Saturday Game Day on a huge rivalry but thats outside the stadium. These fuckers sing the entire game..Great songs...Catchy! You wanna sing but you just dont know the words. The game was alot of fun, Many yells of ¨Puto¨and Moreno were yelled. Mostly at the ref but sometimes the players of the Mendoza squad. There was one goal scored by each team and we were lucky enough to see both on our side. Richard said it was boring and uninventive and I told em it was cool I was from the US we all think its boring! So we leave the stadium and begin looking for a cab, we walk and look, we ask and follow directions and walk there and look. We ask to borrow phones or people to call and everyone says no. 15 cabs pass as we walk and dont stop as we yell TAXI!!! So we walk and look...When we find out we´ve been walking the wrong way we turn back walk and look. 2 hrs goes by...we get a cab and make it back to the hostel. Then I fell asleep!

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