Trip to a football match

Just a quick note about the football game last week (that means soccer). It ends up the first Saturday I was here was the big game of the year, equivalent to the Michigan/Ohio State Game. It was crazy. We heard we needed to be there by 2:30 to get tickets when the gates open. There was an hour and a half processional coming into the stadium, I think it was each department and class having different floats. Then there were the card cheer sections. At each end of the stadium there were the "card crowd" (I have no idea what you call them). It is when they have a different color card and make a pattern, sometimes they do it in the States. But they had hundreds of different ones; the picture above is of the King of Thailand. Instead of chanting nasty things, they would just have them written in the cards when they didn't like a play. Each school had the the card sections.

Also there were bands playing and dancers the entire game and the cheerleaders changed clothes regularly into all these incredible fashions (none US cheerleaderish at all); see picture above. You could buy "shade" tickets or "sun" tickets. The shade tickets cost twice as much but all the available seats (the empty seats in the picture) were in the sun. The Chula crowd was all in pink. Oh, there was also a soccer game too. Ended in a tie at the exciting score of 0 to 0.