Chile's fútbol team (soccer team for us gringos) has qualified for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. I'm pretty sure they qualified in their game against Colombia on Saturday (they won 4-2), but they just played Ecuador today and won that as well, therefore the chilenos are going crazy around town now! All the commercials have been some variation of the chilean fútbol chants and the only things on the news right now are clips of the games and the overwhelming excitement of the chilenos. If I'm correct, the last time they made it to the World Cup was 1998. Also, they have some of the youngest players that have qualified for the World Cup (the oldest player is 23 and many of them are even my age!), so many people are talking about the "young, fresh" advantage they have. Anyway, the town is going crazy here! I swear I might not be able to sleep tonight. All the cars are honking their horns, trying to fit the rhythm of the chilean chants, people are screaming "Vive chile!," and the apartment right next to me on the 21st floor of our building has been throwing confetti paper out of their window for about an hour now. It's all pretty exciting and it makes me really happy that seriously the chilenos have something passionate like this that connects the whole country with each other. It's a good nationalistic thing they have, unlike our tank-looking American football players.
Vive Chile!
Angelita
Ps. Just got back from San Pedro Atacama desert (driest desert in the world!) this past weekend. It was absolutely amazing, I will write about it soon...I swear it'll be a good read. Nothing big planned for this week. Instead of adventuring this weekend, I'll stay in Santiago to go to my host sister's Cheerleading competition because I promised her I'd go. Plus I have a midterm on Monday so I should probably study for that as well. Boo, I forgot about the school part here.
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