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Silence.....that's me right now

You Catalans are crazy when it comes to stadiums, they are massive! How many seats are there in this one? Where is it located? Have fun!

I visited both stadiums
Camp Nou is absolutely breathaking, an absolute must for people who dig stadiums, but I visited the stadium of Espanyol when it was still being modified, it sure looks amazing now

Oh yes, it does, even more than I thought before going in and taking my seat!


40.000 seats! It is located very near Barcelona.

The opening ceremony has been great: really moving, lots of memories from the past and thoughts for those that are not with us anymore, the stadium is AWESOME and we´ve won Liverpool FC (3-0)

YEEEAAAAAYYYYYY it's the glass half full thread

I'll be entering the pop quiz on this beautiful, warm summers evening and my oldest and best friend is joining me ( we don't get to see one another as much as we'd like due to so many varied commitments ), he has better popular music knowledge than I so with the rest of the team I have high hopes tonight.

About time!

...but what a pleasure to see Marcus Trescothick play in the flesh for the first time. Great batsman - how England have missed him since his stress-related retirement.

They could. Desperate times.

Sounds interesting Pawel, if you feel like sharing there'll be many here willing to know more.

my favourite Belgian Soccer Team won 3-0

It is the reason why I am listening to Japanese scores. My friend is from Hawaii and goes through a lot of trouble, because she is half-Japanese, half-white. The trouble is social - she is not enough Japanese for the Japanese community (the biggest minority in that state, I am not saying island, because the state of Hawaii comprises of at least four islands, Oahu, Maui, Hawaii and so on) and not enough white for the white community.

Right now I am looking for a plotline, I have the name for the character, I have the place where she lives (Hilo, on the island of Hawai'i) and I am still looking for a plotline which will convey the cultural issue at hand - Japanese, or for that matter Far Eastern culture, is largely misunderstood by the West - a completely different value system, a completely different attitude for certain ceremonies, even specific NAMES for generations living in the United States - immigrants are called Issei (ichi sei - first generation), their children - nisei (ni sei), their grandchildren sansei (san sei) and their grandgrandchildren yonsei (yon sei). I am still yet to decide whether she is sansei or yonsei, since I know Reiko's family (the character's name is Reiko Johnson, not sure about the last name yet, I guess it'll stay for the first draft at least) fell victim to FDR's Executive Order 9006 (internment camps, that is).

Wish me luck, I got a lot of love and thumbs up from my friend to write. She told me she knows I will be respectable for all cultures, since she has a lot of faith to me and writing it is fine with her. I was really worried about how she would take the idea of writing about her story, but she approved of it and this makes me want to write it even more

Thanks, I think I might find the plot soon. And I know I will include some dialogue in Japanese (I don't know the language, but writers have the benefit of using parentheses like REIKO (in Japanese).... ).

Well, I've certainly gleaned from your postings that you're fond of the parenthesis too! Your post about your project above is just such an example. I've been known to do that a lot myself, in fact, but I try to cut back when I can. It often disrupts the reading flow if over-used.

If we'd had the ol' thumbs-up emoticon, I'd insert it here.