One Month Away

I leave for Colorado in one month! ONE MONTH!! We (and by we I mean all my Laos teammates as well as teachers moving to other Asian countries) will be doing teacher training for two weeks before we leave for Cambodia to finish out our certification. Then after about another two weeks in Cambodia is when my team and I will finally go to Laos! Although there are still about two months until I will be in Luang Prabang, my journey to Asia is officially beginning. And to say I am excited would be the understatement of the year!

Photo Credit: New York Times

Atlanta Silverbacks

It's been soccer mania around here lately, but i'm not complaining. If i'm not watching the World Cup, i'm talking about it or checking scores on my phone. Last Saturday I attended my first Atlanta Silverbacks game which was awesome. Atlanta is also working towards getting an MLS team in 2017 which fingers crossed that it will all workout! Then this weekend a couple friends and I are going to Soccerfest in Atlanta.They will be showing all the games that day including the next USA (Did you watch their win against Ghana?!?!) game on a big screen in the park and will have soccer activities all day long.

Spain plays Chile today.. I still can't even talk about what happened during their last game, but it will be okay. The past is in the past and i'm hoping today we will see the Spanish team dominate. Also, here are a few pictures from the Atlanta Silverbacks vs Real Salt Lake game. They we're all taken before or after the game, the actual game was to intense that I didn't even think about taking pictures. Atlanta won by the way 2-1

Spain, Soccer, and The Lucky Jersey

Call me un-American but I've never really understood the appeal about football. It's not that I hate or don't like football considering in high school most of my Friday nights were spent watching games and in college I attended my fair share of tailgates. But for me football games have always been more about the social aspect. It was the spending times with friends that I enjoyed more so than actually watching the game. 

Soccer on the other hand, that is my sport. After moving to Tennessee I took up soccer and played for ten years. I certainly was never an all star player but I just loved the sport. I miss playing so much and though there are adult leagues, I unfortunately just don't have the time to join. And I mean I really don't have the time because I move to Laos in just a short little while and the season doesn't start until after I move. (But I guess I can't complain because well i'm moving to LAOS!!)

Thankfully I have the World Cup to satisfy my need for more soccer in my life. The World Cup kicks off tomorrow with Brazil vs. Croatia and though you can definitely bet that I will be watching (and not cheering for Brazil, I don't have anything personally against them, I just don't want them to win.. again..) the match I've been waiting for is on Friday, Spain vs. The Netherlands. You can also bet that I will be watching every second Spain is on that field, hopefully cheering and yelling La Furia Roja through another victory. And just in case I will also be wearing my lucky jersey, a knockoff Andres Iniesta jersey I bought at a tourist shop. 

I wore the jersey every time I went out to watch the Euro 2012 Championship, and I didn't wash the jersey once while I was there. No, not because I am superstitious or gross but a friend had told me her horror story about how her jersey got washed and the red stained all her other clothes, so I waited until I was back home and could wash the jersey by itself. Despite the fact that the jersey REEKED (I sealed it up in its own bag when I traveled home) it led Spain to victory. Okay maybe it was the team's awesome soccer skills but they never lost a game while I was wearing that jersey, so it must have some luck in it. 

I hope you will be watching the World Cup along with me even if you aren't a huge soccer fan. I feel like big sporting events like this are always fun whether you are really into the sport or not. And if you aren't a big soccer fan and aren't sure who to cheer for (pick spain *cough cough*) here is a little BuzzFeed quiz to help you figure it out. Also, follow me on Twitter to get my full World Cup commentary! 

¡VIVA ESPAÑA!

Happy Monday

Today I found out what city I will be living in once I move to Laos! I have been waiting to find out for what feels like FOREVER & now I finally know. So without further ado I will be moving Luang Prabang and I will be teaching at a university there. It might sound cheesy but my heart is so full of joy right now. I am so happy, blessed, and content with life.