14. The Home Front: feelings of the World Cup

Saturday 13 February

It has come again: that World Cup feeling. And by way of this Blog I must take care to make this also happen in far away Chili.

Although Girima is now Belgian, still I can here talk abut when OUR boys play soccer for the European Cup or the World Cup, those who wear the orange socks. That feeling is in the genes. That you don't lose. Just as the Dutchmen who live 20 years in a foreign land still eat licorice can beschuit (sort of a toast---in the USA "Holland Rusk") with muisjes (generally pink and white colored seeds).

That WE feeling.

That comes with a soccer championship. Then in Holland there is an enormous and mostly completely unjustified optimism: WE will be the champion and WE will win the gold. So long as it is going good, it remains WE. (We let the French smell something stinky!!!!!) But naturally it goes after that always a bit wrong and then it is no more from WE. No, then THEY played bad against the Russians.

But now there is no soccer, but well the Games. And there WE will win the gold.

Most of the Belgium blog readers will now be confused......GAMES???? Those were in Peking?????

But we Hollanders also participate in the Winter Games. In Belgium there is almost nothing over that in the newspaper. At the most, there is a comment about a figure skater #20 in the list who hoped to win and is out of competition, from Senegal. BUT the Dutch newspapers there are complete and full descriptions over Sven Kramer (OUR Dutch godson) and Tijsje Oenema (who does not know her...........). There WE go to win the gold. Until they don't make it and then THEY performed badly.

OUR Prime Minister Jan-Peter and OUR Crown Prince Willem-Alexander have already traveled to Canada to personally enjoy that WE win the gold. I don't know who the Belgian government sent. At the most, Minister Daerden (the whiskey is gratis in Vancouver).

Therefore, Irma, send Geert jogging and put on your orange socks there in Chili. Then look for a terrace with a t.v. Then you can cheer on and enjoy how WE win our first gold. It seems to me in 30 C temperature interesting to explain to Chilians how such a skating contest works and that we also have an Eleven Town Skating Tournament. I'm not sure you will succeed in explaining that.

Placed by Dad on 13 February 2010.