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Mooom, I’m hooomee!! (And I brought someone with me :P)

Move out was on Sunday, May 3rd and we had to be gone by noon. Even though are flights had been booked for Monday, my girlfriend and I were lucky cus her parents came down to take her stuff back home and we were able to stay with them at the hotel for the night.

Between being anxious for the trip, worrying about possible swine flu outbreaks and the exhaustion from packing one whole year of our lives in just a couple of days, we got on Delta’s flight 5957. The fact that there are no direct flights from Richmond to Lima made us stop in Atlanta, where we had to wait a couple of hours before boarding Delta’s flight 235. This one did have Lima as its final destination, but we still arrived there at about 11:00pm (about 12 hours after we had been dropped off at Richmond’s so-called International Airport).

Luckily for us, we got our suitcases quickly and my family was already waiting, ready to take us home. “Mooom, I’m hooomee (and I brought someone with me :P).” The picture below shows how my mom reacted to the news.

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She looks serious right? Hahaha, I’m just kidding. She already knew my girlfriend was coming home with me. That’s the face she made when I told her bout my grades. Noooo, I’m lying again (my grades were better than in the Fall). The truth is that I actually can’t remember why she’s looking so serious, but I’m sure it wasn’t anything bad =).

Anyway, we ended up going to bed at about 2:30am and woke up kinda early cus my little cousing didn’t want to go to school and was making a scene (I don’t know where he got THAT from). After that, Tuesday was used for my girlfriend to meet my friends at my high school and some members of my family.

On Wednesday, we had lunch with my dad’s side of the family. Delicious Peruvian food, including an amazing dessert.

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Everyone in my family was really happy to meet my girlfriend and we had an amazing time. We didn’t spend every day in Lima, but our trip out of the capital city is something I’ll have to write about next time, cus it deserves it’s own post.

Winning eleven - zero…Success!

It was bound to happen. Everybody saw it coming. It was just a matter of time.

During finals week I needed to do something to relax a little bit. I needed a break from all that essay writing and from studying for the tests. Basically, it was the right moment to plug in the PS2 and play Winning Eleven.

Everything was going fine, but then I started getting bored of beating the computer. Luckily for me, my roommate arrived and decided he needed a break too. I reminded him that if I won 11-0, I would never play against him anymore, but he assured me that would never happen.

We started playing…

The first game was normal. I won, but he was able to make a goal and the score wasn’t too ridiculous.

So we kept on playing…

I think the problem with him is that he is always changing teams. He doesn’t get used to one single team like I do (I’ve been playing ONLY with Barcelona for more than a year and already know the perfect formation). He decided to play with Chelsea right after he had done a great job with Manchester United.

The first half ended 4-0, but I had missed way too many goal opportunities. I had my doubts about reaching the 11-0, but I was hopefull. I wanted to humilliate him.

The second half was about to end and I had scored 6 more goals, leaving me one goal away. I wanted to win 11-0 so badly, that I changed my formation and made it even more offensive. A couple of seconds before the end of the game, I scored.

I screamed and jumped and ran. I took a picture immediately, before he had any chances of turning off the tv.

I wanted to write about it, but I needed a picture. After all, not everyday can you beat your roommate 11-0.

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