quick fyi-i have no idea how to use this keyboard so there are going to be a lot of mistakes in the post-it looks like a keyboard in the us but is programmed to act like a nicaraguan one so certain keys are labeled as one thing but are actually typed as another...i apologize in advance.
playing soccer en la cancha-went by myself for the first time....was a little worried about being able to advocate for myself in spanish as a woman alone, playing just with men-no need to be worried at all. my team started playing at 450 and did not stop until 605-we could not lose...i absolutely loved it when a guy on the 2nd team made a comment like, wow they won with a girl on their team-we went on to beat his team as well-with that same girl.
in the middle of one of the games, someone shot the ball into the clouds and it hit the roof of one of the houses, breaking 3 tiles. the guy who owns the house came outside, took the ball and put it inside his house and says, youre not getting this ball back until you fix my roof. they yell back and forth for a while- finally one of the other players runs back to his house and comes back with a bag of tiles. another player runs up with a ladder from his house. the proceed to put 3 new tiles back on the roof. this hilarious guy goes into the house, comes out with the ball and everybody cheers. we continue to play until 605 when i have to head home because its starting to get dark out.
i am so glad i was there for this strange soccer experience1
lol that's an awesome story. I love that they actually fixed the tiles. That would never happen here. It would just be put on the homeowners insurance and whoever did it would have run away. Sounds like a much friendlier culture than ours. But most cultures are.
ReplyDeleteI love this story. I have been telling anyone that will listen. Its something you would never see in this country.
ReplyDeleteThis is what I miss about Nicaragua!
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