easter weekend without pastels

My weekend looked like:

• movie night at Beenish’s
• a long bike ride along the river
• Kimchi soup
• naps and cold recovery
• a Korean baseball game
• weather nice enough for SHORT SLEEVES

The baseball game, like most things in Korea, contained some minor twists on the American classic. The rules were all the same, but there were no vendors walking around the stands selling hot dogs. Is baseball the same without hot dogs? I’m not sure. Luckily there were like a million KFC and Burger Kings in the stadium so we were well fed throughout the afternoon.

The stands were PACKED and the spectators were crazy. Everybody sang and cheered the whole time and banged the red blowups around incessantly. If I remember correctly, in America when your team is up to bat everybody gets quiet and lets the players concentrate. This was not the case in this game, and everyone was loud the whole time. Even though we randomly picked which team to support on the way into the stadium (both teams were from Seoul), by the end of the game we were fully decked out with Twins hats, sweatshirts, jerseys, and blow-up toys. We lost… but due to our major investment in Twins gear I doubt it will be our last game of the summer.

Oh, and also I’m famous in Korea now. Despite all the cheers and songs, apparently the wave is unknown or unpopular in Korea. Sooo a few of us decided to go down IN FRONT OF EVERYONE and taught them the wave. I can only do these things in Korea when I can play the foreigner card and people think we’re awesome and not just a bunch of weirdos. Apparently the news caught part of our cheering/dancing/wave teaching up front and it was on the Korean news last night. GO TWINS.

ps HAPPY EASTER. It’s not a huge holiday in Asia so I accidentally forgot about it until the morning-of when the internet announced it. Go eat some Cadbury Mini Eggs for me. Or mail me some, that’d be cool too.