Heart Shaped Hands

I love Sporting Kansas City.
I have never been a strong supporter of any team, until I went to a Sporting game last year and fell absolutely in love. Win or lose, SKC is my team.

Sporting Kansas City is a soccer team, by the way.

April 28th, 2012. The Westport Food Truck Festival.
We are enjoying our day at the festival, walking around deciding where to eat next. I stop dead in my tracks. Kei Kamara is walking toward me.

He is forward (a position on the field) for Sporting Kansas City and he happens to have the most incredible Cinderella story. He grew up in Sierra Leone in the middle of a civil war, somehow managed to make his way into the United States, and now plays professional soccer. He is a Kansas City fan favorite.

So, we did what any normal people would do, which is interrupt his day off and introduce ourselves. We discussed how well the season was going so far and how proud we were of our team. He thanked us for us support and hoped we planned on being at the mach the next week. Of course, we said, we are at every home match.

If you have ever been to an SKC match, you will know that "heart shaped hands" is Kei Kamara's thing.

It's something he does when we score a goal, when he is greeting fans, etc.

So, it was only fitting that I posed for a photo with Kei Kamara with my own heart shaped hands.

He was so incredibly nice.

Anyway, I met Kei Kamara and it was awesome.

The food truck festival itself was also very cool.  We tried some interesting things like fried mashed potatoes and deep fried oreos. Both things tasted amazing.

I have been meaning to post about that weekend for quite some time, but I have been so busy with coursework and finishing up the semester.

But I have a few weeks off before I have to start working on my thesis, so it's back to blogging for awhile.

Kei Kamara. Heart Shaped Hands.