you give me fever

4 years ago I was living in Spain and my roommate Darcy and I woke up one Saturday morning to watch South Korea beat Spain in the quarterfinals in penalty kicks. We were screaming in a bar at 8 am and on the news as some of the "fanáticos" that watched the game.

Now I'm here in Honduras and my life has been taken over by the World Cup. I am traveling throughout San Ramón with my radio to make sure I don't miss a game. (Yes, it's a boombox, no it is not playing "Fight the Power" like in Do the Right Thing) During the preliminary rounds, the games were on 8, 11, and 2 so those filled my days for 2 weeks. I have huge charts of the schedule in my house, I talk about the games with the teachers at the colegio, I try to read the papers as much as possible.

It's getting close to the finals and I have to see every game now. I have a TV but just like the U.S., cable takes forever to be installed. I have been waiting for 3 weeks now and am super frustrated.

Classes were ended early last week so people could go home and watch games. The Germany/Argentina game just ended and as they went to penalty kicks, the streets were empty in Gracias, Lempira as I'm sure that most people were watching that.

I think since I don't have the Cubs to cheer for (or get angry about), all my tomboyish energy has gone into watching these games.