Hey everyone. I'm sorry I haven't updated this blog in forever, so I will make a couple posts to make up for it. Also, the powers that be have decided to make blogging from my school account impossible, so I had to create a new email account for this blog. It shouldn't change anything, but it's a pain.
I went to a soccer game at the Fulham Football club with a group of international students from Queen Mary. Since Fulham is a local team and one of their top players is an American player named Clint Dempsey, I decided to cheer for them. They wore black and white and their opponents Newcastle wore blue.
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| Clint Dempsey, number 23, was the only player whose name I knew. |
So, I was cheering for Fulham at the Fulham stadium, but we were sitting in the middle of the Newcastle fan section. Consequently, I didn't cheer a lot. The fans cheered and sang the entire time, and unlike when I saw a game in Greece, I could actually understand what they were saying, and a lot of it was obscenities. It was still really fun and had great energy. Like most soccer games, they didn't score a lot, but Fulham did manage to get 2 goals in the second half while Newcastle remained goal-less. I actually thought it was surprising that Fulham won because it seemed like Newcastle was setting the pace for most of the game, and they were very controlled. So though I was happy the team I was cheering for won, I still sympathized with the Newcastle fans.
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| Also, the Fulham mascot was a Badger, which seems like a lame animal to lose to. |
The weekend after the game, London celebrated the Chinese New Year. Apparently, the London celebration is the largest outside of China for this holiday. And I can believe because it was amazingly crowded. We went to Trafalgar Square and spent about 30 minutes just lost in the crowd. Then we walked to Chinatown where it was equally crowded, but we did get some food and saw the big dancing dragon thing.
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| As you can see, the person in front of me had a less obstructed picture. |
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| Some of my friends, and it's pure coincidence they are Asian. Haili and Joyce, both from USC in California. |
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| A guy dressed as the panda from Kung Fu Panda 2 outside of a McDonalds. Nothing like an authentic Chinese holiday. |
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Okay, I promise to do a few more posts in the next few days!
Elaine-
ReplyDeleteI had to use super facebook creeping skills to find the link to your blog again because my computer which has this bookmarked is currently on the fritz. Anyways, soccer is awesome so I am immensely jealous of you. And British people at soccer matches are hilarious. I'm glad you got to enjoy that. Also, I miss you, but I am glad you are having a good time. I look at your pictures and am envious of the things that I didn't get to see, so I have decided to live vicariously through you. This will require much more facebook chatting, but I think we can do it. Anyways, have fun and keep Macy from going too insane when she visits you.
I just decided I might stow away in her luggage. Be prepared for that.
OMG, I am so jealous you got to celebrate Chinese New Year in London!! I didn't even get to celebrate it when I was in Hong Kong! but yay did you get any red envelopes :)
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