Adventure Time: World Cup Trophy Edition

Friday afternoons on our second class shift are always my favorite because I finish class at 12:20 and I get the rest of the day to explore, either alone, or more often, with my partner in crime and fellow YES Abroader, Sarah. This week our destination was a little more touristy than the usually fare, but as always it made for a great story.

So the FIFA World Cup is this summer and for the first time since becoming an independent country the Bosnian team has qualified to play. It was a really momentous occasion when they won. Anyway, Coca Cola has been bringing the World Cup Trophy on a big tour around the globe and yesterday it stopped in Sarajevo.

The trophy was being displayed at a concert/sports/shopping center in town called Skenderija and the security there, by Bosnian standards, was pretty tight. The whole atmosphere was a little strange, people kind of just pointed you down long, dimly lit hallways for a while. Sarah and I began to wonder if we had made some terrible mistake when we turned the corner and entered this FIFA-themed fair, party-thing. There were activities, music, mini soccer games, and of course copious amounts on Coca-Cola products. We started walking around and having fun at the fair thing when we saw a crowd of people exiting through these double doors at the side of the room to a place called the "Hologram Zone." Naturally, Sarah and I had to find out what that meant. It was, as the sign described, just a room with a few holograms of different soccer players. Next it was onto the big event. We were shuttled down a few more hallways and random corridors and then finally we got to take a photo with the trophy and then make our way out of the building. Once we were back outside Sarah and I kind of just looked at each other wondering what on earth we had just experienced.