It was so exciting to be here when it all happened. On sunday we convinced our professor to end class early so we could go stake out a table at the local pub. On game days the table spill out into the street and all the bar TV are moved outside. In Guardamar there is a strip of resurants that were all getting ready for the game. We were able to snag a table for eight (even though we sat 12) and ordered pizza a beer. Alex was telling the locals sitting at the table next to us how we were all students here from the United States and they got a kick out of that! They insisted that we all use their facepaint to get ready for the game...we even talked Alex into letting us pain his face haha. The whole day was so exciting. Getting ready for the game reminded me of Cal Game Days (I am excited for football season!)
Tina helped Chtristine make a dress out of a flag we bought haha, it was awesome!
Getting our game faces on! (my new friends Cara and Jen)
Our game watching spot at Papa´s resturant (or in the street outside Papa´s haha)! You can see the others who didn´t get a table fill up the grassy hill behind the street. Alex is the one in blue...good think we got that facepaint on him!
The view from my seat - not too bad! There was no sound but it didn´t really matter because it was all in spanish anyways! All we needed to hear was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! And we did! There is #6 on the screen! the one who made the winning shot!
After the won the whole town went CRAZY!!!! The waiter gave our table a bottle of champaign that was quickly sprayed in the air and all over us! I felt like it was new years - SO EXCITING!
Celebrating after the WIN!
Group picture of all of our classmates that were IN Guardamar for the game. Half our class was stuck on a bus on there way home from Running of the Bulls. It was a traid off...I was glad I was here instead!
Stopping trafic in the streets of Guardamar. It is usually a pretty quite town...it was cool to see it come to life!
Everyone chants through the streets ¨¡Yo soy español, español, español!¨ Which means ¨I am Spanish!¨ but we can´t say that...because we arn´t spanish haha so we were chanting ¨¡Estoy en España, España, España¡¨ which means I am in Spain haha - no one could even tell the difference!
Celebratory icecream!¡VIVA ESPAÑA!
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