I'm thinking about the World Cup and my German friend Jutta (who was my penpal back in 1963)!
I will be watching the World Cup in an hour as Germany and the United States play! I told Javier the US isn't fairly matched with Germany because the Germans are solar-powered! I'm getting really interested in this game that Javier loves so much, and I'm even learning to understand it better than in Tonga in 1970, when we in the village of Ha'ateiho made sandwiches for our soccer team and the King of Tonga was driven to the Pangai Lahi (right next door to his Gingerbread Palace) to watch from his limousine.
This morning I read that there will be Germans from two continents playing soccer on a third--in Recife, Brazil. I see that Jurgen Klinsmann, the U.S. coach, has German roots as do 5 of his players, so as sportswriter Ann Killion says, some of the key players on the US side will know the words to "Das Deutschlandlied" better than they know "The Star Spangled Banner."
This should be very interesting!!!!
Another day we can talk about the inequities in Brazil, where many are protesting against the expenditures and economist Lena Lavinas reminds us (through Jon Carroll's column today) that we shouldn't confuse the formation of a society of mass consumption with the expansion of the middle class.
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