8/5/10- by Nihar

Today we had to wake up at 8 in the morning. everybody was still getting used to the time change so we were a little tired.We had breakfast at 8:30 and then went right down to the beach in front of our hotel. Two other Brazilian teams showed up. Everyone was very excited but eastside was surely a little intimidated still in mind the bad loss the day before. Eastside divided into two teams because when playing beach soccer you can only have 5 on the field including the keeper. Both eastside teams actually did very well and every one learned many new things. The style of soccer here is very different from back home so we are learning many new things and hopefully teaching something to brazil. The mayor of the city came to the beach to meet us after the tournament was over. He was very excited to have a team coming all the way from america to learn about their culture. we all got medals and some of us exchanged jerseys with the other players. We went back to the hotel and played some ping pong. The dinner tonight was great an we watched a soccer final with the while team. We are very excited for tommorow to go to Sao Roque! We miss you all and look forward to see you when we get home. Nihar