8/9/10 Monday by Alex

We woke up at 7:30 and ate breakfast at the hotel. Then we left at 9:15 to a private school where we first visited younger kids doing art and in a preschool. We then visited an 8th grade class and we saw the girl who got a scholarship to the private school and we were all inspired. After we finished visiting the school, we went to the gym for futsol. The first game was the smaller kids on our team versus the 5th graders from the school and the smaller eastside won 3-1 with a two goals by Alex and one by Gordon. Next, the taller kids played the taller kids from the school and it was a close game but eastside pulled out the victory. Then came the big game. Eastside versus the coaches. The first team for eastside kept it close but the coaches got a one goal lead. the second team played tough and with two good goals by John, kept that smaller third at a 2-2 tie. The third team to go in got an angry Xhino to deal with and lost by 2 or 3 goals. We then visited the Brazil baseball program and ate lunch at a buffet. Then we watched the team warm up while Fernando explained to us about how it works for the kids on the team. We then left and visited Blake aka Brake Ree's kid's dad's winery and tasted grape juice and a little wine. We then rested our legs at the hotel before leaving to play futsol at the gremio futsol court. A lot of intense games with different teams that included brazilians and americans. By far the most intense game was the two eastside teams played each other. Team Sketchbot v.s. The other team. The first game was won 2-1 by the other team but the second goal was on a incredibly questionable out-of-bounds call. There was an amazing celebration preformed by Sam aka Sammy Snake aka Samalama ding dong aka Ham and Jack where Same took off his shirt and used it as a cape used for Bullfighters and Jack pretended to be a bull. The second game was tied 1-1 with meg goal and celebration by Josh Zhou aka jzcheeta and a last second goal by Brad with an extremely intense celebration. The day was really long but a blast. Eastside... OUT