Sweet home Alabama!!

Hello again!
Last week I was really busy to write but today at least I get a while to write here.
I am still thinking in my last travel around the United States and I cannot believe that I have done (together with my awesome soccer teammates) about 36 hours by car!! That is because we went to Alabama to play the Soccer National Tournament so on Tuesday evening we left from Eau-Claire and we started our particular road trip that ended in Tuscaloosa (Alabama); I don’t know if you know more or less the United States geography but the distance between Eau-Claire and Tuscaloosa is like if you want to go from Oviedo to Amsterdam, so is about 18 hours by car!! But hopefully we traveled on the night so I could sleep the most part of the journey.

When we arrived to Tuscaloosa we were really tired so we took a little nap and we got ready for the first soccer game. The fields where we played were really really bad, so we tried to play our best soccer but unfortunately we lost the first game and I got an unfair red card (I think the referee hated Spanish people or I don’t understand why he showed a red card, who knows hahah).

In the next games we got two ties and we won the last one so we didn’t do a very good tournament but we played against the best universities of the United States and we did too many friends so the experience was even better that I had expected. The travel back home was I little bit boring and I was studying the entire journey because I had missed several exams so I had to do those exam this week. We arrived to Eau-Claire on Sunday morning and until today I was studying my ¡five! exams that hopefully were easy so I did them quite good.

This week is thanksgiving so all the American students are going home and in my case I am going to go, together with some international friends, to Chicago until Sunday, so I am sure that it’s going to be a incredible journey and we are going to had a very good time as we had in Alabama!

Have I nice thanksgiving!

Obama President

Last night was the elections for the 44th president of the United States. I was watching it on TV at one of my friend's dorm with my spanish and swedish friends. It was really excited for me to be able to watch this great event. We were all thrilled when Obama won more than 270 of the electoral votes! He was the new president of the United States of America!

I like Obama better than McCain so I was happy when he got elected president. I think he will make some good changes for this nation. Now, we have to wait and see what he is going to do about the important issues, such as the financial crisis and health care.

The US is the most powerful country of the world so everybody is expecting great things of him. He has to run a nation in the dark time of the crisis, which is affecting the rest of the world; he must take good decisions.

Now lets wait and see.

Halloween!

It's all over. Unfortunately, my awaited, first and last Halloween has already passed. Today, Monday, once the alcoholic effects of that celtic ancient festival and the hangover have disappeared, it’s time to think about this amazing weekend more carefully.

After almost a month thinking about what kind of weird being I was going to be in Halloween, I finally decided to be dressed up as one of the most famous soldiers during the European middle age: a crusader! I chose that option because I found it easy to wear as well as comfortable and warm for what was supposed to be a really cold night.

On Friday night I had a birthday party in one of my friend’s house. It was an awesome party with all my best friends in Eau Claire. Everybody was dressed up (some of them were really impressive!) and we all had a lot of fun.



After that party we decided to go to the bars to see how the Halloween environment there was. It was amazing walking to the bars and crossing all the time hundreds of people with its different customs and having lot of fun in the street. When we arrived to the bars, it was really like I had expected Halloween to be: crowded bars, people with funny costumes(some with more clothes than others)and everybody dancing and having fun. I really enjoyed it a lot, but I had the every weekend problem: bars closed at 2.30 am even though it was Halloween!! That is something I cannot understand and I didn’t like at all!



On Saturday I was quite tired from last night so I decided to go out only for dinner, have a couple of beers and then going back home.However, although it was not supposed to be
Halloween night, there were many people dressed up and an enormous ambient in the bars, so I decided to stay in the bars until they closed (like I always do: D). But the night was full of surprises and as the time had to be delayed one hour at 2 a.m, I could enjoy one more hour in the bars!!


So that was my Halloween experience. Overall, a wonderful experience that I will always keep in my mind and that I hope I will be able to repeat at some point during my life!

Regards!!