World Cup and Other News

It is with a heavy heart that I report the already passe news that France lost the World Cup on penalty kicks to Italy. I'll be the first to say it, I am very new to the sport of soccer, but this year's World Cup really turned me on to the game. And given the exit of my own country's team, I cheered for my adopted country of France. I was very sad to see them lose. I wasn't impressed with that head butt thing that got Zinedine Zidane kicked out. Quite unsportsmanlike. But, cheers to Italy. Even though they got outplayed for like, the whole game, they still won. France has four more years. As a matter of fact, the United States has four more years too. Anyways, I'd like to announce the creation of a new blog. It has been generated for the sole purpose of documenting my life in England. You can find the link on the right side of this page. I would encourage anyone interested to check it out, especially when I start to regularly update it, which will be soon after I arrive in England on September 11th. I expect it to mainly focus on aspects related to living abroad, as it will be readily avaliable to a large amount of people, and I wouldn't feel comfortable with such large numbers reading some of the topics posted here. This blog may be updated occasionally, but the builk of time will be devoted to "Beyond the Dune Sea" So, please check it out.