In case you have never experianced World Cup fever it is kind of strange, from an American point of view. I'll admit that I living abroad has broadend my world perceptions, exposed me to the beauty of different cultures, and yadda yadda yadda but I must admit I still am no closer to understanding why any one would care about this game. It must be noted at this point that the opinions expressed are those solely of J.P and do not reflect the opions of Kae or any of our affiliates.

Have you ever gone to a party that a friend invited you to and at this party all of the other people are your friend's co-workers, and you have never met any of them before? And at this party all subjects discussed are things that you have absolutly no frame of referance to, and more importently you couldn't care less aout these subjects discussed. And then you try to pretend to fain interest in the topics of discussion by repeating things you overheard, only to end up looking more out side the herd than you did before. This is kind of what its like to be an American surounded by people in the grips of World Cup fever.

At work co-workers of mine have worked out an intericate time table that of games and places to see them, for example "on Monday we can see Swaziland verse Hati at 3:00am at the Sports bar." Due to the time delay most of these games are played in the middle of the night. Granted I love (American) Football, but I'm not going to stay up until 5:00am everyday for a month to watch it.

More rants and rave about soccar to come
And the virtual tour of our humble abode coming soon