Good Karma

Lauren recently found out that not only does Australia have football (Australian Rules Football) but also really soccer, or football. Today was actually the Grand Finale of soccer and the Western Sydney Wanderers were playing in Sydney! We had hoped to get tickets for the game since the fan base for this sport is supposedly crazy but by the time we found out about the game the tickets were already sold out. We didn’t want to miss out on a good game though so we decided to walk down George St. to see what pubs were showing the game and what good fans we could find. It didn’t take us long and we were surrounded by fans from both teams at a pub called Cheers. We took interest in the amount of people that placed bets on the game and the guy in front of us constantly checked the betting machine to see how his money was settling. We thought we might give betting a shot, but we had no idea how to work the machine and weren’t going to waste five dollars trying to figure it out. The game flew by though with a goal in the first half for the other team, go figure. The fans really got into it whenever someone got close to scoring, but even with a mixed crowd there wasn’t a lot of smack talk on. Instead, it seemed like it was just sports fans watching a nice match together, definitely not a Grand Finale. In the end, the Western Sydney Wanderers, the team we were pulling for didn’t come out victoriously. It was official – we have to root for the opposite team that we want to win! Nonetheless it was still a good game, watched with some great people and a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Especially since completing a project due the next day was on Lauren’s to-do list. She has known about this project all semester, but yet waited to the last weekend in order to get it done. We spent the later part of the night working on school work together, with Lauren working on her project and I working my a French book that I bought at the local book store. I soon had to put the book down because I just wasn’t feeling it, but I know Lauren wasn’t feeling it either yet it’s not like she had a choice since it was due tomorrow. She finally finished her project with the night at no means young! Since it was so late, we both decided to call it a night and head our separate ways.