Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Soccer game with Nuestra Casa

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Soccer game with Nuestra Casa

I went to the high school as usual and this morning Miss Mabel had a song in English planned for the kids. It is a great idea in theory but it wasn’t a very good song. It was the 3 Little Pigs hard rock style. I had never even heard it. So the kids didn’t understand anything and were really bored. With about 30 minutes left in each class she just gave up, or rather told me to just give up. Luckily the 3rd class didn’t meet because they were going to watch a play or something, so I came home early.

I’d was planning on going to my friends Natalie and Nick’s Salsa performance for their Salsa class at 12:30 and since I got home at 11 I figured I could go for a quick run, shower, and get there. I actually almost did it and got there at 12:35 figuring it would be in typical Chilean style and start really late. But for once they were on time and I walked in while they were still sweating and breathing hard. I was totally bummed I missed it, but they still appreciated that I tried to make it. We hung out for a while then I took a bus home. Olga and I had lunch then I worked on some homework. Around 4:00 Olga decided to make us coffee which was a good think because I was falling asleep reading and she gave me a little more cake that we’d had the day before. Then I headed to Nuestra Casa at 5:30 to meet up and go to their soccer game.

Nuestra Casa organized a homeless men’s soccer league and tonight was the inaugural match. I thought it would just be a quick 45 minute soccer game against another team but it ended up being a huge event with lots of important people, journalists and cameras. 3 soccer players from La Católica (the professional team, not the University team) were there and stole the show. Plus all the Nuestra Casa employees were there and a lot of the people that hang out at the trampoline. I spent most of the evening with Magdalena, the really quick woman who loves my jewelry. After starting almost an hour late, they had an opening ceremony and we heard some motivational words etc. and finally they started playing around 8. We watched the first 3 games(about 20 minutes each) , then we were so cold Maria Alana and I decided to walk back to the metro together and head home. Two of the guys that had just finished playing, Victor and Sebastian, told us to wait while they changed and they would walk us back. So the 4 of us walked to the metro in the cold, dark Santiago summer night.

I got home much later than expected (around 9:30) and Olga made me dinner. After eating I headed to my room to do some homework and about 20 minutes later Olga brought me a cup of coffee. I spent the rest of the night working on homework until I fell asleep at 3 am.