World Cup school

You may have heard that in other countries, everything shuts down during the world cup. Well, in Buenos Aires, that's definitely true while Argentina is playing.

For the first game, it was on a Saturday, and the pictures on the news of the streets of the city of Buenos Aires were more desolate and remote than at 6 am. (Mind you, at 6 am a lot of people are still going home from dinner normally....)

The second game was on Friday morning. The game started locally at 10 am and ended around 11:45. This sucked for me, because Isa gets out of school at 11:45. It's a 30 minute walk, and I knew there would be no cabs available, so I had to figure out how to go get Isa and see the game. Not seeing the game,was of course, not an option. I asked her teachers about it, and they said - "oh, we will be watching the game!" You see, here, in order to ensure the kids come to school, the bring TVs in so the kids can see Argentina play.

How awesome would that be??? Could you imagine every school in Boston having a TV tuned into the World Series?

Anyway, so Isa got to watch the World Cup, and I eventually figured out a way. Of course, even if I had missed it, one of the sports channels here is basically playing the Argentina - Serbia Montenegro game nonstop.

In the meantime, my laptop is having some serious hard drive issues, and I may be losing my outlook file with everyone's contact info in it. My backup of it is kept safely in Washington, so feel free to write me at jowen71@hotmail.com to give me your contact info, and as soon as I get my computer back up (or rather, get a new hard drive) I will be back on the bandwagon. In the meantime, try giving me a call!