Monday, January 15, 2007

laaa gelatina la gelatina la gel-a-TINA!

So we have gone to our fair share of baseball games to cheer on our Chinandega team! We went yesterday after a large break in the action because of several different reasons. As we were sitting there, I realized that I not only enjoy going to the games to watch baseball, but also for several other reasons.

First, there´s the baseball hat that we wear and we get to feel part of something. As we walk to the stadium, Carrie and I sporting our hats, we get a LOT of comments. Some cheering on the team, some rooting against them, others sexual harassment, but it feels like game day when it happens. Next we get to the stadium, Carrie talks to random guy who works there. Sometimes we even talk to some of the American players before we go in. When we finally get in, we wait to see the cast of usual characters. We have the quesillo lady who sells her quesillo and always gives Carrie the ¨hola chela¨and the look that says, you know you´ll be buying some quesillo from me later on. We also have Mr. Pasteles who sells pastries out of a garbage bin. He usually shoves them in your face, but the sales tactic must be working because he was totally wearing a new hat the last game. It was even a fitted, nice baseball hat. Also we have the band. They always succeed in getting us pumped up, even if we sing the same 3 or 4 songs throughout the entire 3 to 4 hour baseball game. They have a guy who is sort of like the conductor who stands in front and leads them. He is always really excited to be there. Every game we also see a guy about our age who looks like he might, might be Asian. There aren´t too many different ethnic groups in Nicaragua, so we usually spend about 10 minutes discussing if he is mixed, completely Asian or completely Nica. We have the mani con chile boy who sells peanuts (with chile! they´re good) and we always comment on how cute he is. One of my favorite parts is watching all of the necio chavalos in the front, who are always fairly dirty, playing and being really really annoying and loud. Here, we always wonder how they got in, and why someone doesn´t kick them out, but the crowd ends up throwing their eaten orange rinds at them, or sometimes plastic bottles which I think is hilarious. We also have the vigaron girl who sells her vigaron in a voice that says, save me from my misery. We have Mr. Gelatina selling jello in the familiar voice that we have missed because he wasn´t there last game (WTF?) not that I would ever buy jello in a plastic cup to eat. And our favorite Steve. Oh Steve. Hes about 10 years old and collects beer cans. We call him Steve because the first time we saw him he was wearing a shirt that had his name on the back, obviously Steve, obviously not originally his t-shirt. Then next time, he was basically wearing the same outfit as Jeff AND they have the same haircut, totally long lost brothers. But Steve was wearing nicer shoes than Jeff. Yesterday we noticed that Steve had on some new sandals, so business must be good in the can crushing industry.

Lately, we have been wondering if we are in somebody elses cast of characters. Do people look around to see if we are there every game? We hope so, but who knows!

4 Comments:

At January 16, 2007 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is my favorite post ever! Miss you cats!

 
At November 05, 2007 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi, my name is Donald Ugarte, I am Nicaraguan, and quite frankly I am a little upset by the mocking tone with which you describe what happens here.

I guess it was quite the tactic to post that disclaimer where you free the U.S. government and the Peace Corps from any liaison with your reductivist and openly xenophobic attitude. I can see why you needed to do that to get away with such comments.

Thanks for nothing.
Sincerely,
Donald Ugarte

 
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