2 Things You Don´t Hear About: Chilean Futbol y Chilean Salsa

The fans go insane when the teams first come out. About 4/5s of Estadio Monumental was Colo-Colo fans clad primarily in black and white, with the other tiny red sliver cheering on la Universidad Catolica.

The presentation of the teams was nothing compared to when Colo-Colo took a 2-0 lead early in the second half, even though we were playing with only 10 guys (the best player, Jorge Valdivia, was thrown out about 10 minutes into the game).

However, true to form with bad Chilean soccer...Colo-Colo lost 3-2. Although sitting with several friends and many avid Colo-Colo fans, I didn´t mind too much because I prefer la Catolica. And there were about 12 yellow cards given out during the game!! But I didn´t get jumped...and anytime I don´t get jumped or mugged after a futbol game - it´s a good game!

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That positive soccer experience was only outdone by some salsa dancing. Jacob spearheaded a fun, although often times embarrassing, night. I took dance lessons last semester. I danced...last semester. So I was a bit rusty. Jacob tore it up - putting us all to shame.

And even though Chile is not at all known as a dancing mecca, it doesn´t seem to matter. Some of the dancers were spectacular. Thus meaning it took us a drink to build up the courage to join them on the floor! It´s impossible to even try to compare North American dances to Latin American ones. We simply lose - hands down - back at home. Asses aren´t trained to move the way they do down here! Teresa and Carly could both hold their own...but the other ladies were a thing of myths --- partly because there were several outfits that could kill small children. We still closed the place down after 3 in the morning, having the last laugh of some sort!