Sometimes I imagine you guys read my blogs and think..yeh right…what ever Lise.

I can assure you what I am about to tell you…is 22980318% genuine, and I have the cutting from the paper to prove it.

Yesterday I went to Carlos Paz, a town near my city…just to look around and have a quiet afternoon with my host mum.

When we got there it was jam packed with cars, and it turned out, the World Rally Championships were taking place next weekend, and the cars and their teams were all in Carlos Paz, testing their cars in the mountains.

I saw an English number plate and got very excited, so made my mum stop and we went and looked around. I asked my mum if she could take a picture of me by the lake, when a blonde hair pail skinned asked me in English if we would like him to take one of the both of us. I replied in English with yes! That would be lovely, and then translated to my mum in Spanish what he had said. So anyway, me being the shy little girl that I am started to ask questions… and it turned out he was working in one of the teams. So anyway, all this time I am talking in English with him and translating for my mum in Spanish, when he says

“hey!!! Can you help me out?!?! Our driver doesn’t speak Spanish and he´s getting mobbed by press asking questions…can you help us?”

“YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!”

So, we entered, and everyone started to say hello to my new friend (lance) and I say

“hey! You´re pretty important aren´t you!”

And he says “yeh, well, quite, I´m the boss of the Subaru team.”

I was talking with the bossssss of the American Subaru Team. Hahahahah!!! Love it. So, we enter the VIP section, and my host mum is about to wee her pants! He introduces us to all the team, and shows me the cars, and then he takes me through and I see Travis Pastrana (definitely had no idea who the hell he was.) And the poor (yet hot!) 24 year old American was being mobbed, in Spanish, and was just smiling and putting his thumb up. So anyway, I say

“hey! You need some help?!?”

And he says “yessssssssssss pleaseeeeeeeee!!!”

So I stand in front of everyone, the cameras point to me, and I get asked every question under the sun and have to translate for Travis. It was hilarious. All I can say is thank god “flip” is “flip” in Spanish too, because it turned out he used to be a biker and did a double flip on TV with his cousin, so the majority of the questions were about that. I had a right laugh. The centre of attention has always been one of my favourite positions, and Travis was really nice too so we laughed our way through it.

So anyway…I posed for a few pics…and then we was like

“hey Lise, you´ll never guess what! Sebastien Loeb is playing tennis over there with the Spanish driver!!!”

I had no idea who the hell this was, but acted really excited and went over to take a look. There were 2 guys, pretty guys, playing tennis, and they were rubbish. Loeb went to take one shot, and missed completely, and I laughed. Quite loud. And he comes over, with a smile and says

“hey you!! No laughing!!”

And everyone is laughing at me, and looking at me like, “who is she????” So anyway, I start to work out that this guy is pretty important, every time they hit the ball out of court everyone asks him for his autograph and to take a picture. After the 10^th time of this happening he replies with

“If I take a picture with anyone, its that blonde girl who laughed at me.”

Crap.

I look around, no blondes, and I definitely laughed at him. And everyone pushes me forward, I ask my mum quickly who is it??????????????!!! And she says…

“he´s a driver!!!”

So I enter the court, we kiss on the cheek, we stand in front of the cameras and I say

“hey! I hope you drive better than you play tennis!!!”

And everyone starts to laugh histerically. It was quite clear I had no idea who it was. He also laughed, and tapped me on the back and says,

“well, I am the three times world rally champion, so I hope so too!! You don´t even know what Rally is do you!”

I reply with…hey! Yeh I do! I´ve played Colin McRae on the Playstation!”

He laughed loads, and says, well “I´ll have to give you a game some time”

I reply with “I´d love too! But I´ll warn you in advance, I´m pretty good!

He had great banter and laughed loads. We posed for the press, god knows what they must of thought of me!

But anyway, this all happened on the Sunday. Monday morning I get 7 messages.

“Lise!!!!!!!!!! You´re in the paperrrrrrrr with the world rally championnnnnnn!!!”

Hahahaha, I think

“yeh right!!”

By Monday afternoon I had a message from nearly everyone in my phonebook, so I went to check it out, thinking, yehhhhh bet there´s loads of pics of everyone!!

Nope.

2 pictures of him on his own playing tennis, then one with a little blonde English girl. The article finished with

“…and loeb…the world rally champion, stayed to sign autographs for everyone, but chose very well when picking who to have a photo with.”

I´m not sure quite how I do it.

But  I Love it!

I translated for Subaru at a World Rally Championship, gave the world champion banter about how rubbish he was at tennis, challenged him to a game of Colin McRae, and ended up in the national newspaper. I never in my life thought I would be able to say that.

This exchange gets better and better!!!!! And today I´m off on my North Trip so prepare yourself for 43728947238947829 photos, and a distraught little girl at the end of it when I have to say goodbye for the last time to all my exchange friends.

I loveeeeeeeeeeeee you guys!!!

And I am back veryyyyyyy soon.

Far toooooo soon!

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