¡Olé olé olé olé!

So at dinner this evening, I had a very interesting conversation with Lupe, my "madre's" sister. I came home from the game, and it was about 11pm. I knew they had dinner in the fridge for me, and they told me I should warm it up for myself.
(This conversation occurred in Spanish)

"We won 1-0!"
"Yay, how awesome." (They didn't sound too enthused, yet they usually are glad to hear about the games)
"Did you watch the game?"
"No, I don't usually watch futbol, only tennis. People get too excited about futbol. I am a godly person, and I want to believe in something, so I believe in God. I don't need to believe in futbol. So many people out there don't believe in anything, so they get so excited about futbol."
"Yeah, they do get excited about it." (I'm thinking, when did this turn into something about religion?!?)
"I like to watch tennis because it's an individual's sport, and there's not something large and grand to believe in." (And I think she was hinting toward the fact that many of her favorite players are religious themselves)

Granted, Lupe is a nun. She works evenings in the hospital, or visiting people and providing spiritual guidance. But this is the first time she's gotten kind-of preachy on me. It caught me off-guard. I hope she's not insinuating that I'm one of those hooligans who go around "believing in futbol" but at the same time, I'm not going to damn them to hell either. Very odd.

And as I was eating dinner, we got on the subject of Grey's Anatomy. It was on TV, and it was dubbed, and she was talking about how she loves the show so much because it's so human, with medicine and emergencies, and so she feels that it's a good show because it's so honest and human. (Has she been watching the recent seasons with all the lesbian talk and stuff? Has she noticed how incredibly sexual the show is? Does the contrast upset her at all? Does she make exceptions because it's fiction? Or does she find no qualms between her religious beliefs and the characters on the show?)

And then she was saying that on the other hand, House, as much as she likes the show, she hates that House is such an egotistical character, "malcriada" (evil) and he'd rather let the patient die so he could learn something than try and cure them. I was telling her how most people in the U.S. agree with her that House is a crazy egoist, but then the show is good because it highlights the other character's difference in character, how they're more caring and more human that House is. And her answer was basically "I like the show, but all doctors are that way, and if I had my way, I'd have a doctor that was caring and human, not an egoist like House."

I have to say this is the first time that I got anything out of my madre's that was a cultural/political view that was different than my own. I consider myself lucky, because this was just an interesting conversation for me. I know though that many of the other people on my trip have had their madre's express racist and homophobic views to them, which were incredibly out of line. I'm glad that Lupe only talked about egoist doctors and crazy soccer fanatics.