So here’s a picture of a stadium. I know what you are thinking-“How is a stadium part of a cultural blog”. Well the answer is quite complex in reality. This past weekend a few of the students and I took a weekend trip to Madrid so we could go see a futbal game. Everything about this trip was a new and exciting learning experience for me. We had to learn about the Madrid metro system, we had our first European hostel experience and the biggest cultural experience for me- the game. I have always known that “futbal”, or what we know as soccer, is the biggest past time of Spaniards (most of Europeans for that matter) but I never really knew how important it was. I have been to futbal game in Mexico and as excited as they were there, it has nothing on the game I saw Madrid. The stadium was 2 or 3 times the size of Mexico. I had never been to a stadium that size in my life. I did some research and the stadium’s capacity is around 79,000 but has been as large as 110,000 in 1953. I was astonished when I read that. 110,000 people crammed into a stadium to watch an hour and half long game is amazing! Another cultural aspect that is different here in Spain than the U.S. at sporting events is the food the spectators eat. Everyone had what looked to me like large sunflower seeds that they ate during the first half of the game and after the second half everyone bought huge bocadillos. I bought one so I could fit in. I was happy to have been able to go see the major past time of many Spaniards and get a look into their world and culture.
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