WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!

That was the most awesome football game I have ever seen. I watched my hometown team win. By four points. In the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. At 3 o’clock in the morning. Yeah, it was amazing!

At first, we were watching some online feed from NBC, but the picture was really bad, so they switched to some German broadcast with video from NFL Network. It really didn’t matter that there wasn’t any commentary because the picture was way better.

The Union was packed with people – including the executive dean, who told us on the first day that he was a Steelers fan – when the game started, then the crowd fizzled out after halftime. There were about, say, 50 people left in the Union and about a dozen diehard Steelers fans (including me!) sitting in the front up to the very end. It was awesome. We even got a picture together! I think all of us almost had a collective heart attack in those last 35 seconds of the game. And, even though we moved our clocks forward for Morocco, it's 3:30 a.m. But it was totally worth it.

It's actually OK that I'm going to bed so late because we had trouble fueling today. I guess the conditions were too windy, so we have to refuel in the morning, which means one less day in Morocco. :o( But, it also means no class and sleeping in, so as to enjoy the sweet victory of the Super Bowl. GO STEELERS!!!!! :oD