¡Hola¡ My name is Monique LeTourneau and I am a junior at Washington State University. This summer I am living in Viña del Mar, Chile, and interning at El Mercurio, a newspaper in nearby Valparaíso (or, as the locals say, ¨Valpo¨). I will be keeping an account of my experience as an intern, my progress in learning Spanish, and my side trips to nearby countries. In addition, I will share tips that I learn about living and traveling in South America. - All
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So I haven´t updated in a week, I´m having huge blog withdrawals and I´m leaving for Santiago in T minus 5 minutes... but the briefest of sports updates is absolutely necessary.
Recap:
FIFA Sub20 World Cup
Last night, Argentina v. La Rojita
= DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA
Yellow cards like candy
Really angry Chilean players
Argentina won, 2-0
Took an entire Canadian police force to keep La Rojita from beating up the refs (look this up on YouTube, the TV footage was incredible. For WSU students, think of that time Tony Bennett flipped out on the court and threw off his jacket and whatnot. This is like 5x better)
La Rojita was later tear-gassed on the streets or something (if I understood the news correctly) while signing autographs, 7 were arrested
Hella drama between Canadian officials, police, FIFA, Chilean fans and the Sub-20 jugadores
Main point: Basically, there are a lot of angry, angry people in Chile and Canada right now.
If you can read Spanish, I´m sure this article explains it so much better than I could in under three minutes.
http://www.emol.com/noticias/deportes/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=263126
Updates to come.
