real Football!!

So, report from Ukraine. (yes, Ukraine, even though people often refer to, and it often feels like... RUSSIA, but its not...) anyways, wonderful day here in Ukraine. 70 degrees, almost want to wear shorts, but I think I get enough strange looks besides wearing shorts in March, when all the babushkas would be telling me to put more clothes on or I will get sick. No school this week... surprise surpise. had a great weekend, was able to go to my first professional league football game ever! it was between Lugansk Zarya (sunrise) and another Ukrainian team (Zaparoshya). Went and bought tickets on Friday, wanted good seats. (best seats cost 5 bucks!!!)
Anyways, woke up Saturday at 8ish, was cold, kind of rainy. Thought, oh great, this will be fun, im going to freeze my butt of watching football. But by 1 the sun had come out and it was beautiful.
Met 4 other volunteers and a friend from Lugansk at 2, and stood around watching people get ready for the match (i.e. drinking a lot of beer and vodka and do cool chants, Lugansk is the best, Lugansk is the best) So bought a beer and tried to walk in, only to realize we had to get the tops of our plastic bottles cut off so we couldnt throw them onto the field or hit anyone with the caps. So the game started, and it was cool to see about 2,000 people really excited about football. About 30 min. into the game one of the other team's players was sent off witha red-card, so i thought, hey, Zarya has a chance here. But about 10 minutes later the other team scored. Zarya had a chance late in the game with a pentalty kick, but of course missed... (they are 12th out of 16 teams in the league) Ended up going to a bar called Chelsea afterwards (not really a Irish pub, but still fun) and order some Hoegarden (my favorite Belgian beer)
Was a good day overall. Talk to you soon,
Love,
Seth