World Cup

The World Cup Football games are a pretty big deal over here.  When someone scores (pretty much ANYONE - doesn't seem to matter which team!), the whole city erupts in cheering, which you can hear from wherever you are.  Since today was a rather rainy day (yet again - wonderful!), I thought it would be a good day to get in on the action.

This afternoon, my father-land was playing.  The game between Japan and the Netherlands wasn't really all that exciting.  Netherlands won, which was happy, and it was quite fun to watch all those Dutch guys running up and down the football pitch.

But tonight Cameroon was playing.  I had to watch the Cameroon game, as a tribute to my friend Steve and all the Cameroonian guys I worked with on a training course in Kenya a few years back.

Here I am with the Cameroonians in their traditional garb. 
And here they are in the garb they really liked to wear:

With friends like this, how could I NOT watch the Cameroon game tonight!

And it was a really good game - much more exciting than the Netherlands one this afternoon.

But, I have to admit, it made me miss Steve.  Funny, that.  I find myself missing that guy at the strangest moments, and still, sometimes, when certain things happen, or when I find something funny or I need some good advice about something, sometimes my first thought is to write an email to Steve about it.  My sister wrote a blog post about grieving last month, as we are all still grieving the passing of our family's Baby Cora.  And I'm also still grieving over Steve sometimes.  It's a new thing for me.  But things like watching Cameroon play football on TV while I'm sitting here in the middle of Africa makes me remember him and smile, and be thankful for the amazing Godly man that he was.  I learned SO much about life, and really living and enjoying life in Africa from him.  So, Steve, I was watching Cameroon for you tonight!

It's just kind of too bad they lost!  But I know that at least one of my friends is rejoicing tonight - Lene, I'm happy for your win :)

And on that note, I should probably go out and start PLAYING some football.  When I went to the corner store to buy my bread today, the man there told me I was looking fat today, too!  I mean, honestly, what's happened to me today?!  Was it the way I did my hair or something?!  Anyway, twice in one day is a bit much, even though the Wii Fit tells me that I've lost 1 kg in the past two weeks!  So what gives?