Well, actually game day was yesterday but I will tell you about it today.
Let me start at first by telling you a little bit about how Brazilian soccer works, to earn the title of “champion” you have to play 2 games. They narrow it down to 2 teams and then you play your first game on one Sunday. If you win that one it is a good thing; you are most likely to win. The next game you play is the last game. In order for the team who lost the last game to win they have to beat the other team by 2 points. If they don’t then the other team wins.
Ok now that, that is said I will tell you about the game yesterday. The two teams that played were Ponte Preta (said.. paunchy preta) and Palmaras (said.. paulmadeus). Ponte Preta is the oldest team in Brazil and they have never won a Championship so a lot of people wanted them to win. Well, last week Palmaras won the first game so everybody was really rooting hard for Ponte Preta to get those 2 goals and maybe they could win but in the first half the other team had already scored two goals so there was little hope for Ponte Preta. So in the end Palmaras ended up winning 5 to 0.
One last thing about the soccer game… there were people getting hit over the head by the police with sticks. Many went away bleeding. Scary HUH?
OK well as a lot of you know I have been having a hard time in school and not picking up on the Portuguese so the director of the language school decided to try something different. From now on I will only go to school for some classes and everyday at 1:00 I meet with a private language tutor. I started with my language tutor today and she is very nice.
Well I have got to go. There are things to be done around the house, I will write soon.
Love,
Daddy’s Princess,
Kate
