I`ve been rather busy recently. This last Friday and Saturday I played three soccer games. Friday afternoon/evening we played a team from Culiacan with only 8 people and we still tied, 4-4. We actually should have won a game, but we had some miscommunication between defender and goalie. Both thought the other was going for the ball. Saturday morning we had 14 people show up...woohoo!! Probably the most we will ever have and beat the same team as the night before by 5 or something...I lost track of how many we scored. My ankles were starting to hurt that game, so I didn`t play very well. I thought that if everybody came in the evening that I would see if I coud rest a half for the afternoon game. Unfortunately, we only had 6.5 people show up...one person hurt her hip flexor so she wasn`t able to do much. That meant that I had to play the whole game, although by the end I had all but stopped because my ankles were hurting. That game we lost by who knows how many. Before my ankles quit on me, I was playing offense all by myself in the second half. Dribbling around like a mad woman and getting nowhere. It`s very hard to take on 6 people...I did manage to get a free kick, but failed to do anything with it as my plant (is that how you spell it?) foot gave way in the dirt. Anyway, this was what my ankle looked like the next day:
Not sure if you can tell, but it is pretty swollen. And still is right now. Trying to take ibuprofen and use this cream the sports` doctor prescribed for me. hopefully it will go down quickly. Luckily, although disappointingly, the team won`t be going to Culiacan this weekend. It`s rather strange to me; in order to be a part of the tournament, you need to roster at least 14 people. It seems to me, that if you wanted to play with fewer, you would only be hurting yourself. There was a problem with our paperwork, because we didn`t have a enough girls, or rather didn`t have everyone`s paperwork. Then there was something about not wanting me to play because being a Mexican citizen was part of the requirements; the people in Culiacan didn`t care that I was here on an exchange. My coach was also talking about it having some political motivation, but I didn`t really follow what that was about.
Now, to talk about something other than soccer....I went to two birthday parties this past week. Friday night was the party of someone from work. It was fun to hang out with everybody. There was a lot of joking around and drinking and eating. She lives in a really nice house. I was very envious of her kitchen. :)
The other party I went to was Martha`s cousin´s Marisol. I have gotten to know her because she looks after the kids when Martha`s at work. Her party started at 2pm and I left at 9:30pm and there were still people there. She rented a karaoke machine so after everyone had eaten there was a lot of singing...mostly la banda which is from Sinaloa (the state where Mazatlan is). I sang two songs..."Piano Man" and "Hotel California". They said I did a good job, but I don`t know. Here are a couple of photos I took:
Until next time....
