First football match!
And that's not American football - but what we'd call soccer! HD and I went to the pub on the corner, Red Rita, after I came back from work today and just in time for the Arsenal vs. Barcelona football match. It was a BIG deal! Finsbury Park is going to be the new home for the Arsenal football club in August so it's no surprise that everyone was out to watch. The place was packed although it's not that big to begin with. Mostly standing room only, unless you wanted to sit in the back with all the men standing in front of you, which is what HD and I did. I can't tell you exactly what happened in the match because I couldn't understand a word the announcers said, but it all seemed very exciting!
The most interesting part of the evening was the thirtysomething year-old white guy who was totally crazy about HD! As soon as he walked in he honed in on her and would always "casually" turn around to glance at her. Since I'm way more friendly than she is he'd always smile at me. The old guy beside me kept talking to me about our adventures, or non-adventures as they've been so far, and then the other guy suddenly got courage and started talking to me. It was just chit chat about the game, he wasn't into it either, and then I told him how I just got a job and that HD is still looking and he took that as his opportunity to focus in on her! So he went over to her side and they started talking about Jamaica and jobs and stuff - I kind of zoned out then because it was very loud. Anyway, he was totally cute and I assume he goes there often so maybe there'll be some more adventures for HD in the future!
In other news, today was my first day of work. It was pretty good - I only worked from 1-530 - mostly admin stuff and getting their purchase orders to make sense. It's a property management company for swanky areas like Barbados etc, so it's for the rich. The people are very nice, all women, and I caught on fairly fast. So I should be able to work for the next few days, we'll see what happens next week. But I want to do some more sightseeing - so we better do something fun this weekend!
OH YEAH...Arsenal lost!!
posted by RC @ 5:52 PM
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