Well this past weekend the Peruvian soccer team played Paraguay in a South American qualifier for the world cup in 2010. Anyway, this is a big deal here in Peru...and especially in Pucallpa. Typically if Peru is playing soccer, usually no other sport qualifies, the neighborhood is practically silent. There are no disco-techs blasting their music, the sound of motor-taxis decrease significantly, and the only time you hear a noise is when the team scores a goal. The whole town erupts to celebrate. Everyone is at home watching the game. So Saturday night Paul and I get home and prepare to watch the game, but when we turned on the TV our reception was terrible. So Paul gets out the aluminum foil and we go to work trying to fix our signal. We were laughing trying to remember the last time we had to use rabbit ears and foil to watch a show on TV. Anyway, we were able to fix the signal enough to follow the game and in the end Peru tied Paraguay 0 to 0. It was not too exciting to watch, but at least Peru didn't lose!
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