This weekend is a long weekend because Monday is a holiday. There is a rugby tournament in Medellin. I take this opportunity to see this city that everyone speaks and to live a good experience of rugby. But I did not know what to expect. It all begins Friday at 22h, departure of a bus in Bogota a tad better than the city bus that is to say 40 seats and the seats are falling. Estimated duration of trip 8am. So under these conditions, sleeping tablets are inevitable. Everything goes well until 2am where we hear a sound not at all reassuring. The bus stops, the gimbal verdict should be called to release another bus. This is something that happens but the most surprising is that there is normal for them to call another bus in the middle of the night. It's all those little things that make you feel more free in Colombia. Digress, another example is that you can ask anything and everything at the restaurant even though it is not on the card and it does not pose a problem is rare or impossible in France. Well back to my trip, I'm in a fog because of the stamps I think it is 5am another bus arrives, it must lead us to the nearest town to take yet another bus because there are only 20 seats. Here we are then divided into two buses with 20 seats. We drove for about 2 hours and guess what? WFP another universal joint that loose ... And guess which bus is down ... Mine ... I have been accused of bad luck since I am the only foreigner on the bus J We will finish the trip in a normal collective bus we flagged down as a city bus. The driver was traveling at the pace that is to say, 30km / h and stopped at every truck / bus down to lend a hand. He's even stopped a good half-hour take a small cold drink. Result we finally arrive in Medellin at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. bus ... yes.
icing on the cake is just telling me to change because we're playing at 14h. I changed and I turn on the TV while waiting for my roommate and I found the last 20 minutes of the final of the European Cup "no comment". The first game was pretty easy we all played well, the cancha is a football field to which we added four poor poles attached to the cages of the goalkeeper. We must face another team to 18h. I talk with lots of rugby player, they are all passionate about this sport, they play maximum 5 years since then when I tell them I played for 15years AC makes them weird. To 17h it starts raining, but not the small shower of France, here is the real rain, which transforms the ground pool in 10 minutes. I thought it would postpone the match tomorrow but not at all. So here we are telling us warm in the locker room. Oh yes there are 2 dressing rooms for 30 teams (boys and girls combined). Women's Rugby is very popular among rugby's something that struck me here. The girls are big fans of slender and hard contacts. Here we are on the cancha and we have no less than 2 return of land to be soaked from head to foot. The strategy for these games is simple, play the hand small arms for the conservation and great kick for the victory. We stood together and eventually we were rewarded by the victory of 11 to 10. The tournament is organized as follows. After playing these two games there are 3 categories: those who have lost both games play the finals of the bronze cup, 1 win the silver cup and 2 wins the gold cup. 
That's it for today, I returned to the locker room to remove the bulk of mud off my body. We returned to the hotel en pensant à la bonne douche chaude qui nous attend et surprise pas d’eau chaude … Je lave mais affaires avec les moyens du bord et nous fabriquons un étendoir de fortune devant le ventilateur qui tournera toute la nuit pour sécher tout ça. Lever 9h nous avons notre demi-finale dans 1 heure. Nous allons affronter la meilleure équipe de Medellin où jouent quelques joueurs de la sélection colombienne. Nous avons perdu après un match frustrant pour moi parce que la partie c’est joué essentiellement devant et leur numéro 10 n’a joué qu’au pied. C’est la fin du tournoi pour nous mais nous avons perdu contre l’équipe qui a remporté le tournoi. La fin d’après-midi rain is back to go to matches for women.
Some girlfriends of players have found a team with which they arrived also in the semifinals of the gold cup. That's when I attend to the hazing of Oscar, who has to run naked on the cancha of filles.C is the tradition of being freshmen on the first trip. There are three options: run naked, get your hair cut or drink.
the evening there is a big party at a bar in Medellin reserved only for teams in the tournament. I found the atmosphere there may be rugby in Toulouse (bawdy song and beer flowing flow). There are other players who are freshmen and who is being tinue at the bar. At the stroke of 4 am we take the bus to Bogota. On the bus some players are quite excited and continue to drink aguardiente until the rise of stupidity and decided to finish the hazing of players. The first is entitled to an improbable haircut done with scissors, the second did not want anyone to touch the hair to chose the option to run naked along the highway a few hundred meters (big laugh), the third a mixture of haircut and bottoms up for me and I opted aguardiente me cost a good hour of rollercoaster in the head. We arrived in Bogota on the stroke of 3:30 p.m. that is to say 11 o'clock bus. I returned to the apartment I clean my own business I take a hot shower and huge hits on the 21 hours I was exhausted. This weekend was still a great adventure even if I have not seen much of Medellin primarily because of rain.
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