Off Time

Well, I'm sitting here in the computer lab using up some time before I return to the venue. This morning we got to the venue at about 9 am, to soon find out that Bolivia had pulled out, there was a reseed, and we had a bye the first round. After watching the Venezuela/Argentina match, we returned to warm up and headed out to the (always) enthusiastically booing crowd. Our first two bouts (Alexis an Emma) against Venezuela was super shakey. When I got up the bout was at 10-3 venezuela, but I managed to bring it back to 15-13 usa. Our final score was something like 45-38 as we were able to hold them off for the rest of the match. Tonight we fence Cuba at 6pm for the gold.

Our team cheer now has a new 'charm' to it. While before, it was (stomp) "drop the a.k. usa!", the new panamerican cheer for the final shall be as follows... 1, 2, 3, (stomp) "Muggle Power!"

Harry Potter is so vogue right now hahaha

On that subject, last night Emma and I managed to secure the english language copy of harry potter at 8 pm the night before it came out! In Brazil, they released the english-language copy at midnight in ENGLAND. It was actually very fun as all the brazilian harry potter nuts were running around the bookstore all dressed up, and they were running live feed at midnight of JK Rowling doing a book reading of Deathly Hallows.

It was difficult to put the book down last night, and I've been reading it in pieces today. Its very exciting and really good (I'm about 100 pages in).

Well, I'll try and send news as soon as I'm back from the final, press conference, and doping so it might end up being pretty late but I'll be calling/writing.

PS. There has been an air traffic controller strike in Brazil, and we're not sure when planes will get out seeing as all the flights are packed and there's only one United flight per day. I'll be in touch about this.

PPS. I've managed to trade some good stuff, as I've come out of here with pins from over half the countries, a brazil shirt, an argentine jersey, a sweet hat, and I'm looking to trade my other polo for something fun as well. This will leave me with a usa shirt, longsleeve usa dryfit, warmups, shorts and sandals. I'm a wheeler and dealer.

PPPS. Just found out, flights should be leaving as scheduled tomorrow.