Day off!

Today I took a day off - no games for me to go to. It's been a busy last few days, and I'm about to see either 6 or 7 games in the next 7 days. I figured a day of rest was in order.

Woke up about 2pm and watched the first two games today - Honduras lost to Chile 1-0 and in a very exciting match, Switzerland beat the #2 team the world, Spain 1-0.

After the 2nd game I took a walk and intended to do some shopping, but pretty much every place is closed today because it is a national holiday.

The holiday is called Youth Day: It commemorates the start of the Soweto Riots in 1976 which took place after the apartheid government declared that all black schools were to be taught in Afrikaans, which was a language spoken mainly by white and mixed race people. Protests were held against the apartheid government and troops were brought in. When the dust settled, around 500 were dead.

On a lighter note, I went back to Roman's pizza to try out a Boerizza: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbiAGrCdRM

It was pretty tasty - i got a BBQ chicken one to go with it. As I said in an earlier post, you get two pizzas when you order. The come in a rectangle box...I relaxed after dinner and watched some TV before the game. I had initially planned on going down to a pub to watch, but instead I chose to stay in due to the cold - i had been out once already today.

One thing I have really liked is how everyone is excited about the World Cup, I snapped this photo of a news broadcast where the anchor was even wearing a Bafana Bafana shirt. I couldn't picture this happening on the nightly news in the USA...

Really, that's all that has happened today. Tomorrow will be a bit more action packed as I'm headed back to Soccer City (place where I saw Holland - Denmark) to see Messi and Co take on South Korea. No surprise here, but I'm going to be supporting South Korea!

until tomorrow..... AYOBA!!!