I learned something very important: the "wave" is international. There are things that don't translate well between English and Spanish. There are other things that are exactly the same. Little things mostly like yellow pages (páginas amarillas), butterfingers (as an insult) (mano de matequilla), talk to the hand (Habla con mi mano). Last night I discovered one more thing to add to the list: The Wave. I'm not talking about the greeting, I'm talking about at sports events. I went to my very first professional live sports event, two soccer games; Peru vs. Argentina and Venezuela vs. Uruguay. The night was full of new experiences to me; the stadium, the people, cheering, ect. But one thing was very familiar: the wave. It started on one side of the stadium and died about half way around. The second time, though, it made it all the way around the stadium twice.
I have now been to my third and fourth soccer games and this time Peru tied. I also proved the saying in Oregon "If you don't do it in the rain you won't do it." We sat through two soccer games in the rain. Thankfully when Peru was playing, the second game we watched, it had stopped raining but we were already soaked. For these games instead of writing how they went I will show you. The video is a little long but it is two 45 minute games crammed into 10 minutes. Enjoy! Here is the link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQiKpiWgvw
