almost time to say good-bye

I only have two more days here in Brazil, I can not believe my time here is almost over! I really miss my friends and family but I am falling in love with Brazil! This past weekend I spent at Wilson's home, it was a lot of fun to be there! I really love being around their family, they really love Jesus and each other! Their two children, Rachel and Vivian are a lot of fun to be around. They both speak English really well and have a heart for the Lord! Vivian is 19 and Rachel is 15. I hope that they will get to come to Montgomery and visit sometime! We went to the mall for a little while on Saturday but everyone was really tired from the week so we took it easy. Mrs. Salvato made a wonderful dinner of Chinese noodles and veggies and chocolate cake! I went to their church this moring (I had been there one other time with STJ) and then Wilson took me and Mariana back to Copacabana. Mariana is one of the people I met this week and she is planning on coming to the states and staying at my home for a while in October or November. This is one of the things I have loved about being here, being able to make some friendships and help people out when they visit the states. The people here have been so kind to me and I hope I can do the same! This afternoon Mariana and I went to see Flemango and Nauito (I dont think I spelled that right) play soccer!!!! It was so exciting, It was on my want to do list for while I was here. Flemango is the most popular team around here and the games are just like you would imagine a futbol game would be in South America, wild, exciting, and a little scary! We took the subway to the game, I had not been on the subway yet, but it was really nice and I felt safe having Mariana with me. She rides the subway all the time. We had to take a couple of different subways but we finally made it to the game. Then we had to wait in this really long line to get our tickets. Mariana decided it was safer for us to get a seat in the section where you can sit down as opposed to the one where you stand up because there are a lot of fights and I am a gringo :) We paid 20 reas for our seats and made our way to the stadium. It looks really big from the outside (to give you a visual it looks bigger than Auburns stadium, but only hold 60,000, it does not go up really high but it is really long around). We found some safe looking seats and watched as the other team scored the first goal. The team Flemango was playing is not a very popular team so it was not as crazy as usual but the coward was very upset with the 0-1 score! The "crazy section" stands up the whole time and you can hear drums beating and giant flags are waving in the air! The score to the game was 0-1 until about 10 minutes to go and Flemango scored a goal making it 1-1. This was probably my favorite part of the game, the place went crazy, I can not describe how exciting it was! Everyone stands up, claps their hands, and says this cheer that translates in English to "Lets go play Flemango!" over and over! The game ended 1-1 which to me is the biggest bummer that soccer/futbol games end that way! Some interesting things about the game included the fact that they did not have an announcer, there were atleast 4 yellow cards and 1 red card given out and I think the players fight often, the fans yell a lot and while I did not know what they were saying I could guess their were some not so nice words invovled, Flemango colors are red and black and everyone dresses to match! It was a great day! When I got back Isa was home from vaction, I am excited I will get to see her one more time before I go home!