Yesterday we all went to the Mexico vs. Goettingen soccer game. Of course Mexico won since they are a national team. The score was 3-0. I gotta say I was a little disappointed though. I expected a national team to STOMP on a dinky regional one. Goettingen is in the fourth or fifth division for Pete's sake. There was a lottery in Germany for towns to play the national German team. The national team murdered the poor town 7-0. But Germany is one of the better national teams so I guess it makes sense.


There were a surprisingly amount of Mexicans there. Hearing all that Spanish reminded me of home. =)


Kate and I bought thundersticks with German colors on it. Apparently they're called Bang Bangs here. It's really hard to refer to them as Bang Bangs and still keep a straight face.

Anyway, after the game some random guy came up to Kate and told her that he was the mayor of a suburb of Goettingen. The town was doing a parody of this television show "Wetten das (bet that)" and his bet was to find German and Mexican fans and bring them back. Kate actually got into the car with the man and then Jen and I followed suit. Looking back it seemed real shady but thankfully, everything was legit. There was some youth program going on at the fire station. To their dismay, the mayor got American German fans and not real Germans. They were very hospitable nonetheless. We got free beer and food! We were kind of treated like novelties. When the firetruck drove us back to Goettingen, people were cheering and waving. Definitely a weird yet flattering feeling. My favorite part is the possibilty of being in the newspaper on Monday or Tuesday!

me and Jen showing our excessive American German pride

our potential photo in the Goettingen Tageblatt

All in all, a very fun day. Special thanks to Kate, Cindy and Vivian for some of the pics.