World Cup 2010, can you feel the excitement?

The past few months have been an incredible sight. Road works, bridges being built and the most spectacular, the giant eye which watches over all of us from the entrance to the V&A Waterfront. To say I feel proud would really be an understatement, although true. Undeniably through all of this is the tangible feeling of patriotism, excitement and unified spirit in the air.

Flags, Zakumi’s (official World Cup mascot), soccer jerseys everywhere makes me feel that we can unite as a country, evident in the progress made.

*** I love SA ***

Am I going to be watching any of the matches live? Obviously! I have never been to a soccer match before and will be attending my first on Friday, where France and Uruguay go head to head (or ball to foot in this case) :). I will be glued to a giant screen somewhere before this game starts to watch RSA vs. Mexico and rooting for Bafana all the way. First live match ever, World Cup fever, feeling SA unite, can anyone say “excited”, “excited”, “excited”?

The feeling I hope for South Africa is that we stay this way long past the end game is played. Everyone is watching and can see that through working together and progress, we can be pushed into another league and be part of a set of countries people all of the world would like to visit sometime in their life.

So, Bafana, we are behind you 150%, make us proud and do your best.

Visitors to South Africa, our country is beautiful, take the opportunity to visit places off the beaten track  you’ll be pleasantly surprised and p.s. don’t forget to shop!