Friday was my last post...it has been a very busy weekend with homework, soccer game and city tour; not to mention the heat took its toll on me.

On Saturday was a big soccer game between my university Chulalongkorn and the rivals Thammasat University. A group of us met at noon to attend...not really knowing what time the game starts...but we were advised to go early to get seats and to watch all the pre game events....well this plan may have been alright if it wasn't 40 degrees out, by the time we walked to the stadium in the crowds we were all dying in the heat, then we find out the stadium is not yet open. Our group dispersed into MBK (the giant mall) for air conditioning. We then reconvened at 4 and went to the game. The cheer leading was very different then our typical cheer leading and includes both male and female and a lot of cross dressing. Because we didn't end up there until after 4 now, the shaded seats were sold out so we got the nice hot concrete seats. I didn't last till the end of the game...although I'm told Chula won 1 to 0. Leaving the game was an interesting experience for me...the gate I came in was now locked...as was every other gate I went to in the vicinity...so now I'm facing the Thammasat side a sea of red and yellow....I'm wearing Chula pink. I am told (in broken English) that the only gate open is on the far end of the Thammasat side. So I venture off, the only pink dot in the sea of red and yellow...fighting my way through the crowd, which felt like forever as I'm getting heckled (well I think I am I really don't know what they are saying) I think it was the most I ever felt like an outsider both in nationality and the colour of my shirt. Finally I reached the gate and escaped the chaos and headed home for homework which involved several readings on conducting conflict analysis, promoting peace and security and a strategic conflict analysis of Afghanistan.