Nov 11, 2013

COLO COLO

On Sunday my family and I went to a soccer game. We tried to get in but they sold out all the tickets, so we had to try and buy some from scalpers. The first guy we tried to buy from wanted 80,000 pesos but we only had 50,000 pesos. We found someone else and bought tickets from him. When we were in line for the game, the security checked us and threw away our expensive water bottles that we just bought for our trip. The security person said that we could hit someone in the head with the metal bottles and that is why he threw them away.

When the game started the fans for the team we were there for were getting a bit crazy, for example some of them were flicking off the other fans and calling them bad names. There were riot police with big scary dogs and the police had some crazy riot armor on. They also had horses with a bunch of crazy riot horse's armor. The fans hated each other so much that they had to be separated with big barbed wire fences and riot police. When the game was over the COLO COLO won, the score was 3 to 2.



When we were trying to get on to the metro it was not fun. When I say not fun I mean the other people were shoving super hard and it was actually scary, it was sort of like a stampede and it also hurt when they shoved. When we finally got on the metro it was really crowded and there were a bunch of guys jumping around and singing a victory song and the train was shaking. I thought we were going to go off the track it was so crazy.

We finally got back to our neighborhood in Santiago and looked for a bank to get money from the ATM, but it would't accept my dad's ATM card. After, we tried to use another ATM that didn't work, but at least we got to look around and saw some break dancers. So, we still don't have almost any money today.

these are the barbed wire fences and riot cops
these are the riot cops on their riot horses