Homerun x4

I went to my very first baseball game in Korea last weekend.  Now, I may have said it before, but if you all have forgotten, I love baseball.  Not all baseball.  Pretty much, I love the Brewers.  But, I can't imagine a summer without at least one ball game.  So, when Chris asked us teachers if we would be interested in checking out a game for his birthday weekend, I jumped.  The original plan was to meet up and go to this restaurant by one of the lakes here that lets you rent a large barbecue grill and provides you with meat to grill and sides and drinks.  Eddie, Blaine, Dana, Jack, Chris, Keller, and I all met up at 12:30 and headed to the lake.  Sadly, when we arrived, the restaurant was no longer there.  Not something too unusual in Korea, but depressing nonetheless.  We then began to wander the area around the lake looking for someplace else to eat.  There were a lot of fish places, but Dana doesn't eat fish, so we kept trucking.  We found a place that specialized in duck, but Dana doesn't eat duck either.  We continued to search, coming across a lot of places that were closed for afternoon cleaning, until we came around a corner and spotted a galbi place that seemed to be open.  It was!!  We sat out on the porch, and ordered samgyeopsal and german galbi.  They were pretty amazing.  And the side dishes were not bad either.

After lunch we headed to the game at Daegu Citizen Park. Once we got there, the hunt was on to find tickets, chicken, and beer.  The tickets get bought up early by scalpers, so find a good price was not as easy as we had hoped it would be, but we eventually found some and some beer and headed into the stadium.  The seats were pretty much full, so we grabbed some stairs and settled in to the game.  Chris and I sat in water, which was okay because it was a hot day and the sun dried it pretty quickly.  Once the game began, I found it a little hard to follow, simply because I was looking all around me at all the stuff going on.  The game itself is very similar, but being there is totally different.  Koreans do a lot of chants, and I could only follow those that were player's names.  It was a lot of fun.  The food at this game was like nothing I have seen at a game before.  Besides fried chicken, there was sushi, ramen, dried squid, and more....  There was one familiar thing at the game besides beer and baseball,  The Wave.  It was like being back home.  The best part of the game??  Samsung Lions, my team, got four homeruns, two in the first inning alone.  What a game.  

After the game we went home to change and get to Blaine's Battle of the Bands.  As his band usually is, they were amazing.  By this time, I was super tired and all I wanted was to go home and sleep.  I didn't even want to go to the show.  But, blaine needed support from his friends and no way was I going to let him down.  I made it through his set, and got to see some of the Koreans I teach with who also showed up at the show.  I think that really made Blaine's night, as well as the rest of ours.  After his show, I went home to pass out.  I found out on monday that his band won and is headed to the next round.  Super happy for him and I can't wait for the final show.  

Now I must head to work to educate young korean minds in the mystery of the english language.  Actually, wednesdays are my best days.  Less classes, and I get to teach the supplemental class that I worked out a curriculum for.  I leave you with some pictures from the game.

check out the Korean scoreboard