Saturday Sept 5- My First Live Futbol Game!

Saturday, Sept 5
We were all so excited for this day but it started so early! We got up at 4:30, rode down to Gracias and got on a bus to Santa Rosa with Mr. Bran, the PE teacher from our school. It was crowded and dirty and my first bus experience. They call them chicken buses down here for good reason; a lady got on and had a dead chicken, just holding on to it on the bus. It was hilarious.We got off, got on bus to San Pedro and the conditions were definitely better, much less crowded. We arrived in SPS at like 11 am and went to mall to have lunch…good American food!
We got a taxi to the game and bought some jerseys off the street for cheaper which was great. I feel so official now I have a Honduras futbol jersey! It was SO busy and crowded because it was a Saturday game and they accidently double printed tickets and we got there too late. So we were in line too far back, but thankfully found friends farther up front. While we were waiting someone threw tear gas and at first we didn’t realize and then it was like everybody crowd together cover your eyes…it burned so bad in my eyes and my face like little fires! Some nice lady gave us water to put on our faces and it felt better but still…crazy I never though tear gas! As we stood in line and it was getting close to game time, everyone started crowding the gate so we were squished like sardines as close as you can be to someone in a crowd. It was like back to butt to back to butt; I have never been that close to so many people at the same time trying to get in. The security or police were only letting in 5-10 people at a time and Kirsty and Sarah were freaking out, so they were pushed up to the front and went in, having to climb over this gate and people to do so. We finally got in and then had to wait to get to our seats b/c it was so crowded; so we waited til halftime outside the stadium watching it on TV, which kept going on and off b/c someone would trip it; got into the stadium and pushed our way to the front row! So much fun once we could see and we won 4-1! The stadium went crazy every time they scored. Afterwards getting out was much easier than getting in; we were starving and got pizza for dinner at like 10:30 went to jump in the pool to wash off the dirt and sweat…felt so good after a long day and lots of bodies close to you.