Spain in the Semi-Final Round

I watched last night's game in which Spain kicked Germany's butt to go on to beat face the Netherlands in the finals of the World Cup. I'm sad it's almost over, but not really sad that Germany lost. They had their chance and played quite a few good games. But last night's performance showed they weren't ready to move on. They just didn't step it up last night and Spain is an amazing team.

As I sat in the smoky (because as the game dragged on, the crowd began to smoke more and more) room in the barn/painter's studio of a co-worker's boyfriend's father, it was obvious there would be no cheering for Spain. I kept it quiet, but I'm pretty sure everyone in our immediate vicinity knew who I was for. No one made a sound when Spain made their only goal, but I was cheering inside. When the game ended, dead silence again.

Although I didn't make a sound then, I was ringing my bike bell all the way home last night!

World Cup Fever

As you might know, Germany beat England yesterday 4:1 in the World Cup. What you may not know is that the rest of the afternoon all you could hear were the vuvus, air horns and car horns blaring in the streets. We even saw a guy sitting in his car, presumably waiting for a friend, outside of our building with a megaphone raised halfway up to his mouth. I gave him a stern look like "buddy, don't even try it - I've got your license plate memorized already." Come on, it's a residential area - only a jerk would go shout on his megaphone. He quite sheepishly put it away.

But it's been fun to be caught up in the World Cup fever since in the USA, there's not that big of a following. Even with the home team out of the games, we'll probably still go watch some games (I'm cheering for a Spanish or Portuguese-speaking team to win!). 

Vuvuzelas weren't allowed in the Hirschgarten biergarten during the game between Ghana and Germany last week. Security made the people who tried to bring them in write their names on their vuvus in the hopes of getting them back at the end. Considering German organization here, they might just have gotten everyone's vuvus back to the right person.

 The Ghana-Germany game was pretty low-key, but we saw at least one German mohawk thingy, proving that football fashion taste is nonexistent, but hilarious the world over.