First Football Game

Bina Antarbudaya
3 min readMar 1, 2018

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I Wayan Yudha Andayana ( INA YES to USA YP 17–18)

On my second day in Ohio, my host mom, Jill invited me to watch a football game with her friends. The game was in Cincinnati City approximately 1 hours from our house. I was so excited for that because it would be my first Football Game ever. My host mom gave me the team shirt. The team called “The Cincinnati Bengals” their theme colour is orange. In the morning me and my host mom went to Fairborn High School to register but I forgot to bring my passport. Unfortunately, we had to came there the other day. After that we went to Grocery Stores to buy some daily needs. I was so lucky that she bought a pack of rice because she knew that I loved rice so much. It was my first time visited a Grocery Store.

We went home to put all the stuff and waited for the time to go to the games. I was still jet lag, I came to my room then I felt asleep. My host Mom woke me up and said, “Get ready we will leave in 1 hour”. I jumped up from the bed, went to the bathroom and take a shower. I wore the shirt that my host mom gave it to me. We went to her friend’s house; their name are Stacy and Dana. Arrived there, we had a conversation about the game, about my exchange year, Bali and other stuff. We left from the house and we stopped at gas station, Stacy bought me a chocolate, it was my first time ate chocolate that inside of it there were caramels. She asked me “How was that?” and I said “ohhh I love it so much”. I saw beautiful view from the cars, Ohio has really huge green space and it just refreshed my mind. I survived not to sleep during my way to the game.

We arrived at the city, I saw wonderful view from the city. Skyline was breath-taking because I am never seen the skyline before. Stacy told me about the fans tradition which is “Who Dey” so, every time I see a Bengals fans I say “Who Dey”. I got what she said, and I saw a Bengal fans walked on their way to the game as well and I said “Who Dey” they looked little bit surprised but the replied me and said “Who Dey” as well. Stacy was surprise she might thought “This kid pick up so fast”. Then, we went to the game on our way Stacy brought me to the Bengals stand she explained to the staff that I am a foreign exchange student and this is my first time I been to Football game. Then, I got free stuff from the staff I got sunglasses, glass, bag, picture and other. Then me and my host mom looked for food I ordered spicy chicken wings because I missed a spicy food she ordered chicken with cheese. Then we entered the stadium it was huge and crowded many peoples came and the sang the Bengals theme. At first I didn’t really understand about the game I asked Stacy to explained it to me cause she a big fans of Bengal. She explained that really detail to me and I got it. I really enjoyed the game and I still amazed by how huge the stadium is. In my entire life I am never went to big stadium. I also amazed by how the people really keep the place clean after the ate their food.

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Bina Antarbudaya
Bina Antarbudaya

Written by Bina Antarbudaya

The Indonesian Foundation for Intercultural Learning Official Partner of AFS Programs

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