Friday, October 30, 2009

the Hockey Game

So Ami got a babysitter haha two days after I, the babysitter arrived..love it.. she wanted to take me to the hockey game just the two of us. A couple of the other wives from the team picked us up. They are also imports mostly from Canada.
Before the game we got to have drinks and food with all the other players wives and girlfriends and other important people in the lounge that over looks the rink. I was so afraid to speak to anyone thinking that they would not understand me and just stair at me funny. However pretty much everyone can speak English and if they didnt talk back to you its not because they are rude or cant understand so much as they are not confident in their English.. which is a relief. People here greet each other with three kisses on the cheek. This was a little nerve racking for me too but everyone was very nice. And when the game finally started we went down to our seats which was right next to the opposing fans. Ami told me that the gangs in Switzerland are formed around hockey and that the fans got so bad they had the swat team present.. mind you I sat between her and them lol. However there were few people there and they were mostly all drunk teenagers. The drinking age here is 16. In the section next to them is the home team fans that want to cheer. They stand the whole game long singing and chanting with a big band drum. It is crazy but really fun!! Curtis made the front page of the paper they pass out each game. I saved it but I couldn't tell ya anything it said. Well stay tuned more adventures to come.

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