Amanda: La araña de Chicago

What's going on at home without me...

My mamma and Lynne in front of the garage

Phil and Will...my favorites of my brother's friends

My mommy and daddy...aren't they adorable!!
Hey all!
So this weekend was quite a blast. All day Saturday I played in a soccer tournament in San Lorenzo, a suburb just north of the city. It was a gorgeous 28 degree celcius day...about 75 degrees farenheit. Beauuuutiful soccer weather! We were there around 9:00 to warm up and hang out. Some of the Argentine girls decided they were hungry so they just left and then an hour later, like five minutes before the first game started they came back with a box full of 50 medialunas (really sweet sugary crossaints)and 25 churros filled wiht dulce de leche (basically caramel). We told the girls...normally we try to eat healthy before athletic activity...oranges for example. They responded with ´how do you get energy from oranges? you need sugar for energy! So we decided oh well...when in Rome/Argentina...

We tied all of our games 0-0, which was reeeeeeally frustrating as a goalkeeper sittin there in the back not really being able to do much about it. Regardless we still really enjoyed ourselves. We played 7 v 7 on half the field. We used the endline and mid line as sidelines and the goals were on the sidelines. The entire team and our coach were in shock when i made diving saves. It was funny, they started to call me LA ARAÑA de Chicago...the spiderwoman from Chicago. HAhaha it was pretty cute. I even have some serious war wounds to show for it. I´m so glad we played on dirt and rocks instead of grass...it always makes the scrapes sting more! hahahaha

So after the game we headed home, had a delicious pizza lunch, took naps, continued making spring break plans (if you have a chance, google Bariloche and Mendoza, the two places we will be headed for spring break), took a nap and then met up wiht Rodrigo downtown to see a play. Rod had won three free tickets to Richard III that evening and had invited me and any of my friends to come with. The theatre is a part of an English school, so it was a cast of students studying both theatre and English. It was a very interesting, contemporary, multimedia interpretation of the play and quite entertaining to watch. They were even projecting Spanish ´subtitles´i guess you could call them. I tried to read them as much as i could. Shakespeare in Spanish...who wouldda thought.

Sunday was spent in the grassy parks of Recoleta reading and chatting with locals. It´s the life folks. Every moment is breathtaking. Did some homework to that makes me a little homesick...I´m working on a 30 minute presentation about Chicago for my students. Its so fun looking up things about my city that i never really knew. i cant wait to teach my students ChiTown slang and show them pictures of Wrigley Field, the only important baseball stadium in the city. Also spent a nice long time talkin to the folks on Sunday, which was great. It was wonderful to get some good news! Dad I´m so happy for you!!

Signing off...
-la araña