My First Futbol (Soccer) Experience in Costa Rica!

At LASP, we have a guy named, Andres who is the activities coordinator for us. Andres sets up many outings for us including bull fights, dancing lessons, and soccer games. Last week, he put up a sign up sheet for soccer and today was our first "practice". We met at the Mall San Pedro at 9:00am this morning. We walked about 10 minutes to this field that was already taken so we had to relocate. But to do this meant walking with almost 30 Americans throughout the streets of the city. We got a lot of looks and whistles thats for sure. Andres took us to this field basically right in the middle of the hustle and bustle of everything. We put our stuff down and he numbered us off into three teams. We ended up playing for almost 2.5 hours! It was a blast. We switched the teams up a lot and I must have played five or six different games. It was such a stress relief to run around and exercise. Andres told us that on Sunday, February 8th he has a tournament set up with a local town of Costa Ricans. We are going to go to their town, explore and play soccer. Just in case you didn't know the Ticos are REALLY good at soccer. I think we may need to practice a little bit more!