Quite an exciting night for sports last night. Two of the international students, one from Texas and one from OU, decided to watch the game over the Internet in the student lounge. Unfortunately it was for some reason blocked out, so they were unable to watch it live (for that they paid 20 bucks?). Instead they killed time by watching some previous baseball playoff games until 11pm or so when they'd be able to watch the completed game archived.
Meanwhile, the German students were gathered in a lecture room to watch Germany play Turkey in soccer. I decided to join them. It was more exciting than Americans might suspect – at least in a room full of people.* Germany however didn't, in my estimation (and as represented by the final score), play particularly well. But people had fun. Everyone brought beer – even me. But that was totally fine, because the head of the school was also there watching with us and didn't object. There was also a pool to guess the final score, and despite it being 1-0 Turkey for most of the game, a flurry of goals in the last 5 minutes turned it to a 2-1 Turkish victory. And the head of the school won the pool...
I then contemplated staying at school all night to watch the Cal-UCLA football match-up, but it was difficult to tell if I'd be able to watch it televised over the Internet so instead I went home. The game wouldn't even start until 1:30am, and it didn't seem worth staying up if there was a strong possibility I wouldn't get to see it.
* There was also some additional, um, excitement... At some point a Turkish player sustained an injury. I suppose it was a groin injury, because as the cameras showed the trainers treating him, it also showed them taking off his shorts in full view of the cameras! In my opinion the European football "wardrobe malfunctions" are much more interesting than the American ones...
Edit: Oh, and Friday had its own athletics excitement, when the school organized an American (touch) football game. Of course, a 20-on-20 match, comprised of many people who had never even seen a football before, went about as well as you might expect...