Juego de Beisbol

Hello!

On Sunday I went to a baseball game with the Brito family + others. Here in Venezuela the  baseball teams are highly competitive, and I have been asked many times which team I cheer for. I think I may have explained this before, but I am officially a fan of Los Navegantes de Magallanes. (As official as I can be after living here for less than three months and deciding which team to cheer for on a whim). This worked out well when they came to town on Sunday. There were so many people at the game. I've always been bad at estimating numbers of people but I'll just say it was a big stadium and it was completely full. That's as precise as it's going to get, sorry. The stadium is here in San Felix, so when one of the pre-game announcer ladies said "How are we feelin' PUERTO ORDAZ?!?!?!?!" all of the people in our section (the general admission, probably all from San Felix section) did a lot of booing and yelling, "San Felix, no jodas!" I'm not sure what google translate will give you on that one, nevermind I just checked, it's pretty much right on. We got to the stadium at 330, the game started at 5:00, and in the mean time I nearly died of heat. Yusemaris was wearing a sweater for a while because she didn't want to get burned. That confused me because one, it was really hot and we were in the sun, and two, it probably should have been me who was worried about getting sunburnt. Since I'm white.

The actual game was a lot of fun to watch. Both teams were really good and there was an awesome home run that I later found out went into the stands just below where my buddy Luis from the Casa Hogar was sitting. Los Navegantes won, but Los something with a C I don't remember their name almost came back with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. But alas, no, and most of the stadium went home happy.

As I'm getting these pictures off of Claudia's facebook album I'm realizing how ridiculous the wig they gave me to wear was. When I took it off I got yelled at so on it stayed for most of the pre-game time. Crazy gringo.

A no-wig picture. The only one.

I wasn't going to put this one on here until I saw the people in the background.

Alejandro

Alejandro with Angelo, Andreina's brother.

Andreina, Yusemaris, Claudia, and me.