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I love being a room full of people who are all sharing passion for the same thing. Now these passions can be anything but here in Spain the new passion rage is...World Cup. Congratulations Spain on your recent wins and please continue to win because I can't imagine what the state of Spain would be like if the Spanish futbol team lost.

A couple of nights ago we all crammed into a room and watched Spain play Portugal...BIG rivalry. Shots were taken on the Portugal goal keeper and every time a ball would miss the goal moans of agony and screams that sounded similar to a woman in labor came from the viewers. Now when I think of soccer fans I think of someone wearing maybe a jersey to show support for their team, that is not the case here. Face paint of yellow and red are must, a jersey, and the Spanish flag draped around the shoulders is the standard attire for viewing a futbol game.

After the Spanish futbol team succeeded in making the viewers hoarse from their moans they decided to score....

Finally Spain scored! Everyone, as if they were only one person leapt from chairs and started jumping up and down and screaming "Espana! Espana!" A flag started waving and the national anthem began to chorus throughout the room.

What a moment. Its so easy to be swept up into the joy and excitement that everyone around you is feeling. My friend Chelsea and I got up and started jumping around with everyone else, we did not however, sing the national anthem...it escaped our vocabulary.

I wouldn't want to be anywhere else for world cup...except maybe South Africa, but thats besides the point.