A New Friend

as i havent written since monday i have loads to tell you so il do it in seperate posts so as to give your eyes a bit of a break.. arent i nice :]

Monday 10/05:
in the evening me and elen went with christhenewboyvolunteer to chris´s football project. as we have been before i went round and said hello to everyone and generally sat on my deck chair pulling funny faces at some of the younger boys who are all way cute. eventually Marcelo decided that me and elen should be in charge of the little boys and that chris and he were in charge of the olders. so me elen and the littleuns baggsied a goal and started shooting balls. elen and a couple of others were in goal and me and the rest were shooting and it turns out, when a ball is placed in front of me and im on front of the goal and everyone lets me concentrate and i have a little run up i can actually score a goal... HOW AWESOME IS THAT. a couple of the boys were making sure i had my fair shair of kicks so when i hadnt kicked in a while one would shout LA PELOTA PARA ELLA.. the ball for her.. and i was like awww you guyyssssss :] one of the boys kept staring at me and when i tried to talk to him he got all shy so i just smiled and everntually he came over and i asked him his name .. which i couldnt understand, and how old he was .. eight. he asked me how old i was and i said eighteen and he looked very shocked. i think he thought i was fortysomething. the next thing he said to me was possibly the funniest/randomest/cutest thing i have ever heard.. he looked up at me with massive green eyes, motioned for me to lean down so i could here him and said [in spanish] ¨do you have any Karate films on DVD?¨ and i said... ¨no... do you like karate films?¨ and he said ¨yes :]¨ and i said aww im sorry and he said it was ok :] and from then i decided we were friends :] we played a mini match after that and my team totally lost mainly because of me and my fear of footballs.
towards the end of the game a woman came over and spoke to marcelo and he laughed and came over to us.. she has just formed a womens football club that train in the same place and would me and elen like to join? its laughable. in england i am afraid of the ball, dont like football, i make fun of my friend ben when he mentions football at work. but in Posadas, Argentina, where the fact that i´m blonde seems to be the most important thing about me, i am a football coach and a member of an actual team. ITS RIDICULOUS.

Love,
Bethnal x