First football game ever!

This weekend was the football game.  I didn’t know what to expect, but I was very excited about the experience. Before coming here  I used to watch videos of the beautiful fireworks and amazing cheering songs the students sang in the stadium, the players coming into the court, the Nittany Lion boosting everyone up, etc. Everything about  Penn State football sounded so thrilling, and  I wanted to feel part of this awesome body of students encouraging their team.

 

 

My friend and I were the only ones that got student section tickets, so I thought I was going to watch the game only with him, but then we had the idea to sneak my other friends into the student section. I was so afraid because I thought we were going to be caught, even me because I was helping them, but it was the easiest thing ever, I don’t know If I should be writing about this but it was so funny. My friend was the first to pass the line where the student section and non-student section are separated, when he was inside, he tried to distract the person checking the tickets and gave me his ticket for my other friend, then we sneaked her in by showing him the same pass and oh my god it was so scary, I felt such a rush and overwhelming feeling, but in a good way.

 

 

 

 

My experience was marked by a lot of screaming, meeting new people, being so confused about what was happening in the game, being shoved around, being screamed at by people I don’t know, but overall, had lots of fun. I’m so glad I went through it, I feel like it’s good to experience different activities just for the laughs in the future and get out of my comfort zone more often. The tailgating was also new for me, I didn’t even know what that word meant before coming here. People sharing food, beverages, taking a lot of pictures, having fun, is an experience every person should have. The screaming and cheering is the best part, more than a thousand students making noise and being animated and exhilarated is contagious, even I that didn’t know what was happening in the game wanted to scream my lungs off. I felt like I was part of something big, a more important community, although I didn’t know more than 5 people in the stadium it was like we were family.