Saturday 15/05:
After a long lie in me, elen, susie, chris and marcelo headed off to me and elens football match. now considering we´d only practiced twice i was feeling pretty optimistic, secretly thinking that i was going to suddenly become a star footballer and score all the goals even though i was on defense and i would be carried off the pitch on people shoulders to crowds of cheering fans. and of course, i would be given a gazillion pound contract to play for argentina.
Basically, the complete opposite happened. we arrived and were given football shirts and i realised the other team had football socks and we didnt and instantly felt like a fraudster. i walked onto the pitch to a few cheers from the boys that are normally at football and i was like yay. im totally gonna be amazing today. i played for about fifteen minutes i think. First, i was running to try and intercept the ball from a scary looking lady and trip over my own foot and fell. luckily not too many people saw, except after a few minutes EVERYONE knew id fallen because i fell in mud and not grass. and the mud is red here so i had a massive red streak down one side of my body and when i rubbed it it just looked like id been tangoed :/. Second, i tried to kick the ball away from our goal and ended up flicking it towards out goal and was literally inches away from scoring an own goal. im so glad it wnt on theother side of the post or i think a] i would have died from embarasment or b] they would have killed me. they definately werent pleased as it was. next thing i knew i looked round and Elen was sitting with susie and chris by the side of the pitch no longer playing :O i was so confused and so didnt want to be the only english girl on the pitch. after a while we swapped sides but i wasnt sure what was going on and was preoccupied with the whole i-think-my-team-mates-might-murder-me thought process and was totally shouted at to get down the other side of the pitch and it was really embarassing so then i was like you know what. i dont care i dont play football in england i dont excersize i can be expected to know the rules or anything or that you change sides of the pitchfor whatever reason so i took my shirt off and gave it to one of the subs and went and sat and all of us volunteers entertained the children that were watching the game playing ¨buenos noches¨ where we would say buenos noches until they pretended to be asleep and then we tickled them all and dancing with them and playing cards and chasing them and generally acting silly so they´d laugh :] after the whole football saga it was a really brilliant day and all the kids were so adorable and they were like are you coming on monday? you have to come on monday. PLEASE COME ON MONDAY.
After football we went home and siestad and went out on night three in a row and the challenge was to stay out until six am :] we went and played pool [me elen susie chris and marcelo] and i was totally amazing but still lost and then around two am we went to power. we saw Vero and Lau in the queue and once we were in we went and sat with her friends Jonathon and Sebastian and just hung and chatted and got drunk and had in depth conversations about home lives and parents and boys and odd stories :] then we went upstairs to dance and we got cocktails coz theyre really cheap [about two pounds fifty] and danced untila bout half five until we went and got an hamberguesa :] rolled home and fell asleep around half six :]
Love,
Bethnal x
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