Do you guys like sportz?

#Day 10

Having settled into our apartment I'm now fully immersing myself in this North American culture by sitting on the couch in the evenings and watching SPORTZ. Ok, I've done it twice so far but it makes me feel like a real man. All I have to do is get some of the tiny cans of beer they have here and I'm set.

Baseball seems to be on a lot. It really is just rounders for grown ups and tbh it's a bit drawn out between all the innings and the ads (THE SUPER SLO MO IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MCDONALD'S. MCDONALD'S, EAT SOME MCDONALD'S). The best thing to do is to watch the highlights.

More fun though is the American football. (Canadian football?) The local team, the BC Lions are pretty good.

OOF.

On Friday we're going to an alleged Irish bar called Ceilis, which is also supposedly the home of the Lions, to watch a 'game' so it should be a interesting coming together of sport, alcohol, locals and Irish. The stadium is right down the 'street' from the bar (and a few 'blocks' from our apartment) so we'll see what happens.

Equally close to our apartment (because it's the same stadium) is the home of the local soccerball team, the Vancouver Whitecaps.

We're actually planning to go to a match this month as part of a group outing with USIT/SWAP. The team have a pretty good chance of making the playoffs (lol). Will they be of the same quality as Glenn Whelan and John O'Shea...? Only time will tell.

I'm told there's another game called 'hockey' as well, but I'll have to look into that.