World Cup Fever Part 2: “Thank you Jesus!”

Well first round is over folks, no more round robin, it’s sudden death from here on out.

Our match was scheduled for June 26^th, Ghana vs. United States. The opinions around the village were mixed, “If we don’t make changes then we’re going home” “Ghana is taking the cup” “If we get two we’ll win, one is not enough, United States is good”. I was also told from home we had no chance, Ghana was ranked 30^th and United States was 15^th but I had a good feeling.

I decided I watched the game over at my friends house just at the back of the village and at half time I’d run over to check out one of my students house who lived close by. Twelve of us sat around a 13” black and white TV with the contrast counter stuck up across the bottom of the screen. We were in a small room with the door open so we could all “fit”(there were five of us outside the door on chairs) and see the TV. Something too I didn’t realized until right now was we were all women or girls but one. Some of the girls had whistles as well as one of the women while the rest of us just clapped, cheered, yelled and prayed?

Bahaha… I put prayed with a question mark because the whole game from my best friend/mommy here it was, “JESUS! JESUS! JESUS!”(all in different tones, I’d say one in thanks, one out of nerves and the other when US got a penalty kick, shotter inside the 18 yard box, Kingston studdered and bam. US scores.) “THANK YOU JESUS”(after the first goal for Ghana, after all the nice saves by Kingston) “LORD GIVE US HOPE!”(in anticipation of another goal, the last ten minutes of the game to keep Ghana tied at 1-1, the last shot in overtime that soared in the US net!) 2-1 for Ghana, yep that’s right folks, Ghana did it again! They posted the W! The village was bumping again…

Next up, GHA vs. URU!