Four more days and still counting...

I made a mistake yesterday. Superman opens up tomorrow, and my classes really are not over yet. The man still sucks though.

I just had a finance test, and I blew it hard core, though I think that others blew it too. It was definitely the hardest test that I had to take for this program (Japanese finance). By the end of tonight though I should have all the work done for all the classes which virtually means the end of the classes part of the program, and the start of the vacation time pre-internship. There are only two more classes to finish (External Environment and Japanese Management).

The last few weeks I have been watching a lot of the World Cup and I have to say that I’m really enjoying football (or soccer as us Yankees call it). Many Americans are critical of the sport because it is low scoring, but what I realized is that they really earn each score. Most Americans like our style of football which is okay, but I think it is boring when compared to the world version of football.

I think that there are two reasons that Americans don’t like the sport. First, having a huge football fan base involves becoming more international. This would mean that we would need to pay attention to how the United States team is doing against the rest of the world. In general us Americans don’t like to be international, we like to be Americans. Second, we’re not the best at the sport. People are pissed that we got eliminated from the World cup already. Americans could not stand a sport where we would lose regularly to Brazil, Mexico, or Argentina (let alone France).

So in a sense worldwide football shows some of the worse that America has to offer.