Archive for July 25th, 2009

Random Acts of Kindness?

I am very lucky to have lived in Denmark, Spain, Norway, Japan, Australia, and Greece, and have visited more than thirty other counties. For me international travel has been a great education.

It started in my sophomore year in college. While playing goalie for the Oneonta State Red Dragons soccer team I sustained a compound fracture in my right hand. After surgery I was informed that I had to skip the next season. I was one of only two Americans on the close-knit team. There were players from England, France, Poland, Cameroon, Haiti, Israel, Portugal and other countries. They encouraged me to attend the next semester at a university overseas. After all they came to the United States more for the experience than to play soccer. Known as football throughout the rest of the world, the sport of soccer is much bigger abroad than here in the USA. Football is the national sport of many countries.