Bafana Bafana!

Tonight South Africa plays France! We all obviously know who's going to win! The World Cup fervor is insane! There's a hotel called the Maseru Sun that everyone goes to for the games. There's so much camaraderie, it's crazy!

Foreigner's Guide to South African Football:

• You do not chant "Go South Africa." You scream and bellow "bafana bafana!"
• Bafana Bafana means "the boys, the boys"
• If you are conversing with anyone in any context and have no idea what to say and even if neither of you speaks the language that the other does, a simple cry of bafana bafana with a fist pump will ensure immediate friendship and approval.
• If you wake up at 6am to what sounds like a large heard of angry cows, you need not worry about an agricultural animal invasion, it is only the cry of vuvuzelas echoing through the town.
• You support bafana bafana. You physically bleed green and yellow. You dream about their winning goals and know in your heart that they are the best. There is no choice. No really, you were born to yell "ayoba!"
• If South Africa scores, comes close to scoring, or ever touches the ball you are to blow your vuvuzela as loud as possible. You may risk impairing the hearing of all those around you, but that is no matter, the only thing that matters is that you (and everyone else in the room) blow your instrument so tremendously loud that the sound waves actually make it from your mouth, through the mountains, down into the stadium, and into the player's eardrums. Don't let the fact that you're in some Lesotho restaurant hundreds of miles away fool you. Your screams actually do make a difference in the final outcome.

above is footage from the last south africa game that i saw at a place called the "maseru sun," the game was projected on a huge wall

So anyways, this is where I'm headed tonight, go Bafana Bafana!