Just thought I'd post a fun picture I caught down at Plaça Cataluña day before yesterday for a change of pace. This would go to the lighter side of my blog. Let me tell you the story of how I caught this picture. I was headed down to have my laptop checked out for something. I popped my head out of the metro stop to the low, dull roar of chanting, something that often happens in the Plaça. It is a place of perpetual happenings. Anyway, as is prone to happen because we are new people to the area, we still don´t have the culture´s rhythms down yet. We don´t know what is happening much of the time. Since the local news on the TV is in Catalan (we do watch the news in Castellan, but those stations are from Madrid, that other country), we miss local stuff. The ¨low, dull roar¨ was actually the voices of a chorus of untrained young men from Liverpool taunting the locals before the big, I mean big, soccer match to be held that evening with Barcelona. I migrated over to the noise and got some pictures. I´ve got one on my flickr showing a group of these fans mixing it up with the local police assigned to crowd control. Check it out. A lot of bravado and testosterone being thrown around.
I´m digressing. Sorry. After keeping post in front of the action, waiting to see if anything significant would happen, I decided to make my way to the computer store. Another digress. I was told there were 4,000 fans from Liverpool who flew down from England for the soccer match. They were all clad in the red Liverpool jerseys and t-shirts while the people from Barcelona had coats and scarves on. You can always tell when a northerner is in town. This is big stuff in Europe, actually in most of the world. Cross region soccer rivalries are big theater. You can just feel something in the air when there is a big soccer match. Well, on my way to the computer story I had to cross the main Plaça (the ¨ç¨ is pronounced like our ¨z¨) where they have all the birds. And here is where I saw this panic going on with the birds above! What fun. I took some other pictures that came out nice so jump over to my flickr file.
Tonight I have to take goodies to my Arabic class for not doing my homework last week. Relationships are starting with classmates and my teacher who you prayed for last week. Keep it up. My language acquisition is not going well just yet, but I´m not giving up and God is beginning to build some trust and friendships.
I still owe you another post about our trip last week. I´ll get to it, don´t worry. Thanks for your prayers. God is very faithful and provides some fun serendipities sometimes for my fotos! Comments are welcome and invited.
