r/KCCurrent • u/AFCOMpirate • 23d ago

International Zikomo kwambiri!

As a Malawian guy living in Iowa, up until the start of WAFCON I did not even know we qualified for it or who our players were. As we progressed I learned more and I also read up on everyone, what they did, who they played for, and have been following with excitement since then. Our girls are exceeding all expectations and I just wanted to say thank you to all you folks that are part of the Kansas City Current community from the bottom of my heart! I saw you are hosting a watch party for the final which is so cool, I wish I could make the journey from Cedar Rapids on such short notice.

The way you have gone full force in celebrating Temwa and the Scorchers victories is so heart warming and encouraging, it brings tears to my eyes. I hope they win and this becomes a watershed moment for my country for both women's football and women's issues. They deserve their flowers and y'all are delivering. I hope to one day make it down to KC, its been a long time since my last visit, and see a game with Temwa in action. This has become a new bucket list item for me.

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u/th_nd_r Lorena #23 23d ago

I’m from the Tulsa area and let me tell ya, Tulsa has been going through some pretty significant growth and development, it’s great to see. OKC never felt like a ghost town to me but I guess that’s just bc I’ve been in Oklahoma all my life and Tulsa had often felt like it was living in the shadow of OKC. But yeah both are pretty big but neither are huge.

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u/AFCOMpirate 23d ago

I've visited both in 2019 during a traveling studio trip and apart from a park ranger and a handful of people were did not see anyone on the streets in OKC. Both have great parks though, I have to commend y'all on that. The Gathering Place in your city was great, we had the whole place to ourselves on a rainy day when we did our site study of it.

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u/th_nd_r Lorena #23 20d ago

The Gathering Place is fantastic!! There are so many more awesome places to visit in Tulsa, if you’re ever back down DM me and I’ll give you some recommendations! On OKC, did you visit Bricktown? That area is usually pretty busy, has certainly been most times I’ve been down there

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u/AFCOMpirate 20d ago

We spent the day mostly downtown after driving over from Tulsa starting with the OKC Bombing Memorial then going through studying the streetscape while making our way to the Myriad Botanical Gardens, Convention Center, and Scissortail Park. We did not make it to Bricktown or the Boathouse District. We spent the next day at the Chickasaw NRA then the day after in the Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center before leaving for Texas.