walking to talk, greeting to meet

Alrighty so here we are at my very first futbol juegan. My roommate Arie is a huge San Lorenzo fan so I am following suit. This is at San Lorenzo stadium we were playing Argentinos Jrs. We lost 2-0 it was a pretty exciting game from my experience in watching soccer. (Lots of passing, running, and........ the occasional shot on goal.) But, let me tell you this; I thought Oakland A's fans were bad. I take that back I've never been to a game were I heard, "hijo de puta" said so many times when the referee went by. I also heard allot of other bad words, so my vocabulary of cursed words has gone up ten-fold. When I go to baseball games at home I usually know what type of language I will use by the people I'm sitting next to, i.e. children, abuelos, etc. But, here the kids are encouraged by there parents (as was I by Arie) at any chance they could to say something bad about the Argemtino Jrs. or refs. This place was crazy nobody sat down and we were in the high priced seats which is typically more mellow. Which it was compared to the hooligan side. As you can see they had huge flags probably three different ones, the same size as the one in the picture, streaming down every twenty minutes. These people played drums, brass instruments, started chants that cursed the other team and refs, threw toilette paper rolls at the opposing goalie, and they didn't sit down for a second.

So my new best buddy Cesar is a super cool dude and a friend of mine down here. The other night he called me up to see if I wanted to go see this Brazilian band play. And in my horrible castalleano I said, "yes I will go." So, he picked me up we went and saw the band (which was awesome) and we took a cab back towards our barrio. Later I followed him to a friends house and we hung out drank some wine and meet more portenos (what you call people who are from Buenos Aires) all the dudes and chicas were as cool as ice to me. So after going from house to house our group was slowly growing then we finally made it to this ska/reggae show. And the next thing I know it's me with ten portenos watching this show. I was the only person that didn't speak spanish it was awesome. I can't express how nice it is to mingle with the locals out here. Especially Cesar I can't express how cool it is to know you have a good friend even though there is a language barrier, there is no awkward silence between us, it feels like hanging out with any of my friends back home. I have become friends with all of the people I hung out with that night. And one of my professors the other day was explaining to our class, "That if you become a friend with a porteno you are a friend for life, they hold friendship very highly out here." They give me a call every time they go out and say, "Debin vamos." It is great out here. So i suggest to friends and family by a plane ticket and that's all the money you will have to spend, I'm getting this place dialed in. But, still have so much to see and do, come explore and meet people with me! One more thing: Jozef and Matt I meet the lead singer of Gotan Project while I was watching Tangoloco (infusion of tango music that covers Beatles songs) what are the chances, right?