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(03/02/18 6:05pm)
With just 13 days in preseason training, Indy Eleven are showing positive signs of a strong team forming after a comfortable 2-0 win over USL rivals Swope Park Rangers FC. After last week’s 2-1 loss to FC Cincinnati, head coach Martine Rennie showed the strong ability of his team across the field.
The Boys in Blue came storming out of the starting gates and in turn it took the home team just five minutes to take the lead. New signing Eugene Starikov had his feet swept out from underneath him by the Rangers keeper inside the box. Standing calmly over the ball on the penalty spot, Starikov confidently placed the ball into the bottom left corner and gave Indy the lead.
The endless opportunities for Indy Eleven to double their lead came flooding in throughout the rest of the first half. In the 11th minute Jack McInerney found the ball placed perfectly at his feet after a cross from the left-hand side of the pitch was whipped into the box. The25-year-old’s powerful shot went straight into the hands of the keeper who did well to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
Arguably the best chance of the game fell to Ben Speas in the 36th minute. He received the ball across the goal from Matt Watson which left him one-on-one with the Swope Park keeper. Unfortunately, Speas’ shot rolled just wide of the right post.
The Rangers began to find their stride as the end of the first half quickly approached with multiple shots on goal, but most were blocked by the Boys in Blue. With less than two minutes to go, Kevin Venegas won a free kick on the
edge of the box. His free kick was met by the head of Starikov who doubled Indy’s lead just before the referee’s half-time whistle.
Throughout the second half the visitors put more pressure on Indy’s defensive line. Coach Rennie spoke about why Indy Eleven’s pace slowed in the second half: “We didn’t have the same dominance because it was hard for the substitute players to come on when the other team has been on there a little while.” Both teams continued to come close but as the full-time whistle was blown, the score remained 2-0 to the Boys in Blue.
Rennie also stated: “It was a good training game, I think that we played well, we created a lot of chances and defended in a solid way. There is lots to improve upon and this is just the beginning, but it was nice to get a game and a good result.”
Indy Eleven’s next preseason fixture is this Saturday, March 3rd, where they welcome Notre Dame at Butler University with a 2 p.m. kick-off.
(03/02/18 5:21pm)
Over the past two weeks, between this blog and the previous one, Indy weather has changed more times than I care to count. From bright sunny days with highs of around 60 degrees Fahrenheit to windy cold days that are barely above freezing the next. Now I mean the British weather is notorious for being constantly raining and not really having much of a summer, but the weather here fluctuates a lot more. I feel like the only kind of weather left here to experience would be a tornado, but I think I can live without seeing one. The constant variation in temperature has definitely taken its toll on me. I have already experienced the ‘American flu’ in which I was barely able to get out of bed some days, and considering how important attending classes is, last week was a bit of a battle!
Now recovered from being ill, this week was arguably the most important week I’ve had since being in the US. I got to watch my first live soccer match in three months. Indy Eleven had their second pre-season fixture against Swope Park Rangers FC at Grand Park and I was lucky enough to go and watch and meet the team after I got in contact with the club regarding the possibility of doing an internship with them. I now have to complete an application form, which is both scary and exciting, but I’m optimistic that I could be in with a good chance of getting it!
Not many people know what being a journalist or communications officer for a soccer club entails, but essentially, if I was to get the internship, I would have to be constantly creating content for all of the club’s platforms, from their website to all their different social media accounts. On match days, I would be walking round pitch side filming and photographing the team as they warm-up. Then, after the game, I would help organise all the post-match interviews with the external journalists, including the TV broadcasters. It is the kind of job I would very much enjoy and would love to do once I finish my degree, so fingers crossed I can get some experience in doing it with Indy Eleven!
Since the last blog, I have also continued to eat out and try lots of new foods and restaurants. I had Korean BBQ for the first time and it was delicious! We don’t really have many restaurants in the UK where you cook the food yourself, so it was fun to learn how to cook Korean BBQ and I can’t wait to go back! I also went to Harry and Izzy’s and I tried the famous St. Elmo’s shrimp cocktail. I do like shrimp cocktail, but with all that horseradish, I don’t think I will be rushing back for it, but the steak on the other hand, was the BEST steak I’ve ever had in my life… I’m not sure whether that says something about the quality of English restaurant food but still it was arguably the best meal I’ve ever had!
If anyone has any suggestions on good places to eat, let me know, I love food! And I would also like to experience some new sports, so please feel free to let me know what is better; American Football, Ice Hockey or Baseball and I will hopefully try to see at least one of them before I go home.
(02/16/18 5:51pm)
So, since my last blog I have really tried to learn more about American sports. I mean this is kind of important considering my major is soccer/sports journalism! I decided to watch my first ever Super Bowl and, in all honesty, I felt like it was never going to end! Now any avid American football fans reading this may need to skip to the next paragraph as you may get a little annoyed with my opinion of the ‘big’ event. What blows my mind is how many commercials there are in every break in play and between every quarter.
I understand that the commercials are a big aspect of the Super Bowl and a lot of fans only turn on the TV to rate the best one, but I felt like there was an infinite number of them. From Amazon’s Alexa, my favourite commercial, to Tide, which I thought was weird to be seen advertised considering people have been eating them, I mean, you guys have some weird commercials! I have never really watched any American football but felt I could kind of follow the game.
I thought Foles was extremely good and some of the touchdowns were outstanding, I won’t deny that. However, from an almost external viewpoint, I can see why the Super Bowl is quickly losing viewers. It is waaayy too long! If you want to draw in new viewers who don’t necessarily understand the game but would like to, they are not going to sit for four hours; I only just managed it myself! It’s hard to pinpoint what could be changed but nonetheless, I did enjoy watching it and I can see why there are so many ‘die-hard’ fans.
I also went to my first basketball game. Using your hands to move the ball is not something that is necessarily preferred in the UK, with soccer being the sport that everyone obsesses about. Despite that, I really enjoyed watching the Pacers beat the Knicks! The atmosphere was loud and energetic, and we don’t really have indoor stadiums like the Bankers Life Fieldhouse so was really cool for me to be sat inside and just enjoy the game. I also enjoyed the mini-shows during the time-outs and between the quarters. From basketball tricks shots to cheerleaders, you guys really do put on a show which never happens at soccer games.
Something else which is different here to back home is that you always have the national anthem performed before every game, in every sport. In the UK, we only play the national anthem when our national team is playing in any sport. It’s very patriotic and it’s a nice feature to have before the game, however, I’m not sure it is something we will do in the UK.
Something else that happened since the last blog was that I presented at Culture Hour. If you haven’t had a chance to read the piece on Culture Hour, it is an event run by the International Club and it allows students from both the US and from around the world to deliver presentations on different cultures. On Friday 9th February, I delivered my powerpoint on England and all it has to offer.
If you were one of the people who came to watch, thank you and an extra thank you to those who endured the whole thing! It was a really fun experience to teach other people about where I come from and what makes me, me and if you are interested in learning about other cultures I highly recommend you check it out!
All of these things over the last couple weeks have been experiences I didn’t think I would get to experience while I was here, and they have made my trip so far even better than I could have imagined. Tune in in a couple of weeks’ time to find out what else I’ve been getting up to and I will also hopefully have exciting news about some work experience opportunities I have been working towards!
(02/09/18 4:55pm)
Almost every Friday from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., International Club, more commonly known as I-Club, hosts a Culture Hour in which international students from across the world deliver presentations about their home countries.
I-Club offers Culture Hour as an initiative to allow all students who would like to learn about other cultures have the space and time to do so. At the most recent event, student Wesley Stevens delivered a very insightful talk on Native American culture, including the Mohawk and Cherokee societies throughout the States.
Stevens runs the Native American Student Alliance and said that the purpose of him doing a talk at Culture Hour was so that he could: “act as the person people want to ask the difficult questions to.”
Steven also said: “I hope more people become interested in Native American history and join the group or at least learn something they didn’t before.”
This shows that through Culture Hour and the bringing together of all types of people, I-Club are fulfilling their ambition of promoting a cross-culture and diverse community among all IUPUI students.
Jeel Doshi runs the Culture Hour here at IUPUI. When describing what it is all about, she said: “We want to bridge the gap between international and local students and to make a more multiculturally aware community among the students.”
She also explained: “Not only do you get to learn about the country that the student is from, but most of the time we get food from that particular place, so you also get to taste that culture!”
Since the start of Culture Hour, there have been many cultures/countries presented to students, such as Saudi Arabia, Japan, Malaysia, Native America, Sierra Leone and England. They also hope to have many more.
Jeel mentioned that anyone should: “Just come along and be a part of it, come and see what Culture Hour is, you might become interested in being a part of I-Club and helping make it bigger because it’s the students that make I-Club, I-Club.”
For more information on what I-Club does and what events they have coming up click the link below:
http://www.iupui.edu/~iclub/events.php
(02/02/18 4:26pm)
I’ve been in the US for just over a month now, and I’ve got to say there are a lot more differences between here and home, including food, speech, education and laws. In this blog I’m going to talk about the main ones, or at least the ones that I’ve noticed the most, and whether it is better here in the US, or back home in the UK.
The biggest difference is definitely the food. I love food, don’t get me wrong. I mean who doesn’t, but the food portions here are MASSIVE! One plate of food here in the US is almost the equivalent of what you would get for two people in the UK. Whilst some might consider this a positive, I know that this will be the reason I go back home in May 20 pounds heavier. In the UK the main restaurant/ fast food chains consist of McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Wagamamas and Pizza Express – and if you ever go to England and have a weird obsession with chicken, I highly recommend Nandos.
Whereas here in the beautiful United States of America, you have a list of restaurant/ fast food chains longer than the river Nile – from McDonalds, to Wendy’s, Chipotle, Taco Bell, Steak and Shake and MANY more. While no one will ever do a British Fish and Chips, I have to say overall, the food over here is a lot tastier; which is also one of the reasons I will return home like the letter O.
The next difference is our difference in the way our college/university system works. Coming here, I could have picked any classes in the world, from pottery classes to engineering classes, the choices were endless. However, in the UK, the way it works is, once you have picked your degree, the university you are attending then give you a small list of different classes to pick from, all of which are relevant to your degree and in turn will only have classes with the same set people who started your degree the same time as you.
It is also not compulsory in the UK for you to do any English, Math or language classes, where as here in the US there is no escaping them. I have also done more homework in my first month here than I have done in my first year and a half of university. Pretty much every class I have I get set a piece of homework, while in the UK there is nowhere near as much to do, in fact I would probably say about half the amount! As much as I don’t like doing homework as much as the next person, at least it means you’re getting your money’s worth.
Despite England creating the English language (obviously), which is also the main language here in the US, I sometimes feel like I’m speaking a completely different language. Whilst most think that the only words that change when you travel across the pond are words such as pavement/sidewalk and petrol/gas, there are many, many more. For example, you guys refer to time like 4:15, where as in the UK we would say quarter past four.
What you call classes, we call lectures. America’s version of chips are the UK’s crisps and your version of fries are our version of chips. Your biscuits are English scones and when we refer to biscuits, we are talking about your cookies. The word I struggle with most with in using the ‘US’ version is when talking about soccer, which in England we call football. I already know for sure that when I go home and refer to football as soccer, my course mates, where we study soccer journalism, could possibly shun me from the group!
(01/26/18 4:35pm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrqNg__xBI
Campus Citizen's Holly Percival covered the the 2018 Indianapolis Women's March as it stood up for Women's Rights amid the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement.
(01/19/18 6:37pm)
by Holly Percival
1/19/2018
Hi, my name is Holly Percival, I am a sophomore who has just travelled 3,897 miles (6,272km) from the UK to finish my second year of college as part of the student exchange programme here at IUPUI. My major is soccer journalism, yes that is a thing from where I’m from, and I hope to one day become a TV presenter for a soccer show.
This blog, in which I shall upload a new one every two weeks, is just me talking about what is going on in my life and what it is like living in a completely different culture. I will provide the honest truth on things I encounter and hopefully any funny stories of weird or annoying things that happen to me. I also want to provide some tips for any other new exchange students here at IUPUI, or future exchange students, so you don’t make the same stupid mistakes I make!
So, grab a pop tart and a glass of Hawaiian punch and let me begin this first entry talking about my flights here and how it couldn’t have really gone any worse.
Flying from Heathrow Airport, London, to Toronto, Canada, before landing in Indianapolis, Indiana, I was so stressed and nervous about flying for the first time on my own. One thing I quickly learnt was that you DO need a visa when transiting through Canada, even though I was told you don’t. I had to buy a Canadian visa online, in the middle of the airport, before I could even check in.
Once we could board the plane, I was almost rejected from getting on because my Canadian visa had not gone through the system fully yet. If I wasn’t stressed enough, I definitely was now!
Originally, I had three hours between landing in Toronto and leaving for Indianapolis. My flight from Heathrow left an hour late, we were then stuck in the plane for 45 minutes and then it took me 45 minutes to collect my bags. That meant I had half an hour to re-check my bags in and get to the gate before the plane would leave without me.
Then, my flight was cancelled because of the snow… I was livid! Stuck in freezing cold Toronto for a night, are you kidding me?? I was stuck on the phone to Air Canada, the company I was travelling with, for an hour and a half re-booking my flight. Luckily, they had a spare seat available on the first flight out the next day. I got to my hotel room which Air Canada provided for free, fortunately, and mentally prepared myself for another stressful day of travelling.
The next day, I went to the check in desk to check my bags in hopeful that the flight wouldn’t be cancelled again because of snow. Instead, they couldn’t find my name on the flight. Again, my stress levels continued to rise.
Turns out, by mistake the woman who I spoke to on the phone booked me a flight for the 30th January, not the 30th December! Luckily, through the help of my mom and the lovely man at the check-in desk, I was put back onto the original flight and was then on my way to Indianapolis!
I doubt everyone will have such a bad time with flying, but if you do, good luck because you’re going to need it! I just hope it won’t be as stressful on the way home!
Travel: https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/travel-to-teach/