In Which Lyn Babbles About Baseball

Sera, Hye In, my forehead

Or, You Can Skip To the End if You're Not Interested in Baseball, There is Also My Last Day at MunHwa.



Hey,

So on Tuesday night I went to a baseball game in Korea. The KIA Tigers (Gwangju's team) V the Samsung Lions (Daegu's team). At least I'm pretty sure it was Samsung...I will add pictures when my iPod stops being a whiney child. It didn't get a lot of attention today so it's upset with me. Anyway. Baseball. Now, I like American baseball as much as the next Red Sox fan, though maybe a bit less than the hardcore fan, but I love watching Asian baseball games. They're awesome.

For those of you who don't know, I went to Japan my freshmen year of college. While there I had the opportunity to see a baseball game there. I was amused because it was so polite. Before that game I had only been to a Red Sox game (or half of one) and only watched the Red Sox on TV. Those games are most definitely NOT polite. The fans took turns cheering, each had a special group cheering section who knew these songs and chants. They did dances in the stand (or at least that's what it looked like to me) and it was so cool. They also had cheerleaders who came out between innings (I knew the 7th inning stretch, but I think one before that too...), and a very cute dancing mascot.

Needless to say, I was excited when my Korean friend Sera invited me to a baseball game. Britton and I went after work (my second to last day), and got to see the last half of the game. Not even half. KIA was winning until we got there T_T but it was still fun. There were cheerleaders, and a small section for Samsung cheering, but there was one guy with a megaphone leading the cheering for everyone. I didn't get a lot of it as my Korean is still not great, but I had a great time anyway. It was not as polite as the Japanese baseball game, people got into the game a lot more, but still far more polite than I'm used to with baseball.

Then, the next day, the end came. I had to say good-bye to MunHwa. In some ways it was harder than I thought it would be, in others it was easier. Saying good-bye to my classes was easier. My grade 4s I said good-bye to last week and that was difficult (they're so cute~) but this week was easy. I thought it would be more difficult because this week I had to say good bye to two classes I've had for my entire time (and almost entire time) here, but it went smoothly. Saying good bye to the office was a bit harder than I thought it would be, though, and I will miss working with all of them. I'm going to try to keep in touch, but as you probably know, if you know me, I suck at that. I'm currently sitting in my friend's room in Japan, on vacation, I'll write about that next time, but I'm ready for my next adventure in Korea, at my new school. I move the day I get back to Gwangju from Japan. I'll post baseball pictures in this tomorrow, if my iPod cooperates, other than that, my next post will be next week.

Laters