The World Cup is insane here and so much fun. The whole country is just alive. Apparently for the past few months the government has encouraged everyone to celebrate Football Fridays and wear football attire to work to get in the mood. Although the locals make fun of the foreigners and how everything seems to have been built for the World Cup, they still have fun. South Africa played on Tuesday and it was insane. I didn't think that it was going to be that busy because the match was on at 4pm and most people are working... apparently a lot of sick days were phoned in that day. We were walking around the Waterfront trying to find a place to watch the match and the roar that erupted from the street after the first goal was insane, you would have thought that there was a terrorist attack. We ended up watching the match not in a 2,000 person fan tent, but in a very quiet jazz bar. But it had cold beer and a giant screen tv- so it was fine in the end. Although South Africa won the match, they didn't make it through to the next round. First host nation ever who hasn't made it through. Oh well. The parties were insane and everyone is still flying their flags prouder than ever.
Tonight the Netherlands beat Cameroon and the entire city was orange. I didn't know you could make that many things orange. But another reason why I love the Dutch.
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