My interest in the 1994 World Cup had not subsided. In fact with all of the new material I had received via the magazines my mom had brought back from the US, I now had become even more familiar with the US team. It was thus that I took to writing the names of US players on the walls of our classrooms at Sharif University. I would intentionally choose classrooms that I had classes in (although obviously during times when the class was empty) so that I could monitor my writings on a daily basis. Every so often when the walls would get too jam packed with these names, someone would come and erase them all and then the cycle would begin all over again. 

I still was fully convinced that the US as hosts would win the 1994 World Cup which lead to a new slogan that I added to my wall graffiti. Pretty soon “1994 Victory” began popping up on various walls, blackboards and even ceilings of the university. For one particular class that my friends were in and I wasn’t, I used to wait at the stairwell for their class to finish. This time there, gave me the opportunity over a lengthy stretch to actually carve 1994 Victory on the plaster wall using my keys. With my friends completely trusting me, they handed over their wallets on a daily basis so that I could scribble 1994 Victory on their paper money and thus further advertise my cause amongst the masses as the said cash exchanged hands. I was always curious if I ever would get one of these bills back and in fact on one occasion I did although I didn’t count it as legitimate. It happened at our campus cafeteria as I received change back and the bill was one that Keyvan had just used ahead of me in line to pay for his coupons.