Teška pobjeda u prvom kolu: Čelik - Slavija 1:0

A difficult win in the first round: Čelik - Slavia 1:0

The logo below is from Čelik's fan club - Robijasi means "convicts" - if you went to a game, you would SO understand!




It's my favorite time of year again, and last night I got to do one of my favorite things - go to a Celik game!! It was the first game of the regular season, and a home game - and we won!! It wasn't the most exciting game (ok, I mean, I just watched probably 35 World Cup games last month, so the level of the game wasn't all that stellar), but it was so great to go to a Čelik game! Me, Tiffany, Scott, Sladjan and his friend Adis went together. There was only one goal, obvioulsy, (but it only takes one goal to win), so the game was a bit slow, but the company was great!!

I just love the atmosphere - red and black flags waving everywhere, flares, firecrackers, yelling, clapping, cheers, whistling, really bad words, and lots of drunk people. Honestly, I love seeing Bosnians passionate about SOMETHING. And people in Zenica are passionate about their soccer team. I would love to harness just some of that passion into something productive and eternal. Maybe one day... I often pray for the soccer players because I truly believe if just one of them professed Christ, multitudes would follow. Their fans love them to no end.

I'm really glad everyone was able to go. I hope we can keep up the trend. The next home game is in two weeks - I'm so there!!

The picture below was taken from Laura's apartment a few weeks ago. Too bad you have to balance on her bathtub rim to barely reach the window to see out... how awesome it would be to watch a game from there!





I went to church today, which was nice. Then went out to lunch with some friends - Sladjan, Adis, Tiffany, Andy, Scott, Donovan, Jocelyn, their summer team... and I think a few others were there too. Tomorrow morning I have Bible study with Tanja and Darka. They have about 11 more days before they head back to the States. Nela couldn't meet for Bible study this week because she had company, and then she didn't come to church today. I'm trying not to get too worried, but I am. Hopefully we will be able to get together sometime this week to hang out and talk and catch up on the Bible study.

I feel like there was something else I wanted to post, but I can't think what it is right now. So I guess I will post this and finish watching Columbo - they put the strangest things on TV here!!