Bafana Bafana scores the first goal of the World Cup...

Goooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllll......

South Africa 1:1 Mexico
Not to say I dint expect it.... but I really didnt...

On friday, we were given half day at work. So we started our partying as soon as the clock struck 12(midday). My workmates pumped up their music in their cars, opened the doors, formed a circle and were dancing right in front of the work building. Some popping open beers, some getting their face painted, some showing off their dance moves... WOW...

The cheers:
Can u feel it
It's here
Feel it, Touch it, Grab it, Pinch it...
Shapa Bafana Bafana Shapa..... Beat them Bafana Bafana, Beat them!!!!

We made our way to the streets and became surrounded by a mob of people. Everyone singing dancing, cheering. I joined in.. how cud I not? I wasnt the only foreigner. See the spaniards, mexicans, germans etc jumping up blowing their vuvuzelas embracing this new culture...the same that I had been doin, I was happy, I was no longer the only foreigner in 100km radius.
As the gates of the fan park opened up, I could barely feel my arms and legs. LOOK AT PEOPLE....It was a squash to go through security and then into the fan park. The fan park that looked so big days before now looked quite minute as all I could see was a variety of colours from the back of the park to the front of the stage...The cheering, vuvuzela playing, dancing and having fun continued.
The bar being so crowded and me being surrounded by alcoholics made us leave the fan park a little before the such anticipated game. We ended up in a shabeen (a low class bar) where the alco was cheap, the place was crowded and absolutely no-one was speaking english. We stayed there for the first half of the match. It was quite an moving experience to be surrounded by locals for the match. The almost goals, the good saves were felt by everyone, like a mexican wave in the stands of former worldcup matches.
For the second half, we returned to a much cosier environment, an office at work: Sci-Bono with notmore than 10 of our colleagues watching from a flat screen tv. The atmosphere was quite as intense and it was in this half both Bafana Bafana and mexico scored a goal....
Noise Eruptions filled the halls and the streets and I could see the look on everyone's faces. Pure JOY..... I knew it was that because, that was the smae look on mine as well.

After the match, I left the room quickly for 1 minute, washroom break. When I returned no-one was to be found... I stood there in shock... I went outside hoping for a glimpse of someone I knew but unfortunately I could find no-one. I took thisin stride. It was gettin dark now and I looked for my roomate, but to no avail. I texted her, told her where I was. The reply was that she would be there in 5minutes. 1 hr later. NO SHOW. I was getting worried. She was not picking up her phone. Straight to voicemail it went.... It was pitch black now and with so many people, I needed someone who spoke zulu in order to get home safely. A while later she returned my phone call. She was already close to home, Melville, whilst I was in Newtown....
PANIC.....
PANIC....
PANIC..
How was I to go home? How could she leave without me? What to do?

Luckily, she turned around and came back for me... :) It was quite late by that time and we got one of the last coombis of the night. I was happy to be safely home. It was a good day! First Goal of the WorldCup Bafana Bafana.

Pictures soon come..