Soccer Match (by Tyler McDaniel)

Today my school, San Fransisco had a soccer game scheduled against another school in the area. We left in the morning to meet the kids at a local park. Here we learned that one of the kindergarteners at our school had passed away last night and so a lot of students were at his funeral. It was shocking to us how this happened so unexpectedly. We had never seen the child, apperantly he was already ill, but still it was a tragedy. There were only about 30 or 40 kids that did come from San Fransisco and all of them fit into one pick-up truck to go to the other school. The translators and americanos got into another pick-up truck and followed them. We drove over mountains, rocks and rivers, and finally arived at the other school. There the teachers exchanged gifts and the children had a gum eating contest before they sung the national anthem. It was interesting to me that all this celebration was being done over a soccer game. We drove a little bit farther to get to the soccer field, which actually had some grass! We watched a girls game and a boys game, and saw some very good soccer, especially for elementary schoolers. At the end teachers set off firecrackers and the sounds resonated off the surrounding mountains. I was happy to get to see a honduran soccer game, and witness this great tradition.