soccer!!

Wow...if I decide to live in Egypt in the future the main reason will be the soccer games. I went with my friends to a professional match between Al-Ahly and Zamalek. They are the two rival teams in Cairo. I had a blast!! The game started at 9:30 but we arrived there at 6 pm! You have to get there early in order to find a seat. When I got there I was amazed as to how many riot police there were! lol my friend and I was like....umm are we going to die here after the game? lol Way before the game started people were cheering as loud as they could, beating their drums and bad mouthing the other team (I was rooting for Zamalek). The funny thing is that during the game, everyone sat down and it had to be extremely quiet. Everyone wanted to watch the game. I'm used to going to football games as a social event and we watch the plays but not always that closely. Here in Egypt, soccer is their life! lol I swear some people were going to committ suicide...they were sooo distressed when something bad happened. Unfortunately Zamalek lost but it was totally worth going to the game. I never knew it would last so long of be so serious but I loved it and hope to go again in the future:)