Last night, I went to my first Ecuadorian soccer/football game. Watching football in Latin America is amazing not because of the action on the field, but because of the fans. I spent 90 minutes standing in the middle of a singing, dancing, screaming, drinking mass of quiteños who had shown up an hour early to decorate the stadium with signs and streamers. They even had their own drumline. The crowd was electric for the duration of the game. However, they went nuts whenever La Liga Deportiva Universitaria (the team from Quito) scored a goal. In the end, La Liga won (3-1) and I knew three fight songs.
Football ticket: $4.50
La Liga jersey: $5.00
Going to a football game in Latin America: Priceless
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Gap Year Reading List
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
- Equus (Peter Shaffer)
- Full Circle: A South American Journey (Luis Sepúlveda) (also known as Patagonia Express)
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (J. Maarten Troost)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
- Hija de la Fortuna (Isabel Allende)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Little Pink Slips (Sally Koslow)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Sexo en Nueva York (Spanish translation of Sex in the City) (Candace Bushnell)
- Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
- Symposium (Plato)
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson)
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens)
- The Witches of Eastwick (John Updike)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time (David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson)
- Tunnel Vision (Sara Paretsky)
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4 comments:
Hahahahaha...fantastic XD
Hey, Just checking in to let you know we are keeping up with you. Sounds like you are having a lot of fun. We enjoy the letters. Keep it up. David and girls
So, did you get to use any of your drum major skills? Did you form a marching band?
Did the guys look good in soccer shorts? Which player was the cutest?
Come on girl! Dish the real stuff!
Haley,
I love the way you described the experience. I can just imagine you in the midst of this giant, pulsating "organism" of soccer fans. YOu have a writer's gift!
-Aunt Anne
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