Futbol

Hola familia y amigos,

Another week has come and gone, super fast. I can not believe that I have been here for a month and a half already. Last week went really quickly. I decided not to take one of my literature classes, which is a very good thing because I am, with just one literature class, falling behind on my reading. I will catch up, somehow. With just five classes and seventeen credits I am going to be much happier and will hopefully not be quite as stressed out.

Last Saturday (26 August 2006) I went to soccer practice for the first time for baby futbol, it is like intramural soccer, but with fewer players and different rules. I practiced on Monday with the women´s team from PUCV. And then again on Wednesday. There is a story with Wednesday`s practice. So it was in a spot that I had no idea how to get to. The girls on the team had told me which micro I had to take to get there, but beyond that I was lost. I asked Lelo and Fernanda the night before if they knew how to get there, but they had never heard of it. Lelo and I looked it up on the internet so I had some idea of what it looked like. On Wednesday, I had class til 11:45 and practice was at 12:15. I didn´t know if the micro I needed even passed through Valparaiso. I asked one of the guys that shouts numbers and tips out at the drivers about which micros are in front and behind him and how far. He told me that neither of the micros I needed passed through Valpo and that I needed to go to Viña to catch one. I managed to finally encounter the one I needed, get on, and tell the driver where I needed to go and that I did not know where I had to get off. He said okay. We drove into a part of Viña called Reñaca Alto (not the best part of town…really poor). I saw a field out of the window, but there was no sign on it and the driver didn´t say anything to me, so I assumed it was further up. Nope. When I asked the driver where it was, he was like, shoot I forgot to tell you where to get off. He stoped another micro for me that was going back down and told the driver where I needed to get off. He dropped me off and told me I had to walk up the road a bit and that the cancha would be on the right hand side. I found the cancha but none of the girls were there and it didn´t look like the picture, so I walked down the hill to where I saw the other fields, where the practice was. I was only a few minutes late, after all of my adventures.

On Friday we had a baby football game which we lost miserably.

I am not sure that I have ever been as sore as I was for the entire week last week. I could barely walk, my entire body hurt. Today I am feeling better and can walk without a problem, thank goodness, but there is practice again tonight, so we will see if I am once again turned into a cripple.

I have to study…I have 3 quizzes this week (two of which are essays).

Love,

Kathy