It's been a good weekend so far, and it's not over yet..

We're having a great weekend this weekend and it's only Sunday morning and we have a few things left to look forward too.

we had a nice quiet Saturday morning catching up with Mom and Michele et Ross on the phone. after the phone calls Milton decided that he was brave enough and that it was time to experience his first Korean haircut. We had been warned about hair dressers in Korea: they are artists and they like to ''style" hair not just cut it. Milton went prepared with a photo of what he wanted - just a little trim. This is what he came home with:

He was happy that it only cost 8$ but he wasn't happy that it was shorter on one side and swept to the other like a small side mohawk. He's a bit nervous about going to school on Monday!

Yesterday afternoon we headed to Gwangju for a Baseball game with a bunch of other foreign teachers because we thought it would give us something "familiar" to do. It wasn't far from a north American baseball game, but the teams weren't very good. There was only a small crowd so we tried to get right into the middle of all the action and the noise. we bought noise makers and contributed the cheering. The game was 0-0 the whole way through, but in an extra inning the Tigers finally got a run and won the game.

The Kia Tigers played the LG Twins, but there were no Twins fans at this game - Go Tigers!!!

Tickets were only $6 and you could sit anywhere you wanted. We were pretty happy with the seats we chose.

They don't have large or talented cheerleading squads in Korea - just four girls with a few easy dance moves and some loud music - they don't even cheer!

Like I said, we were looking for a feeling of familiarity, or a more North American experience and we thought the baseball game would be the perfect solution. one thing we were really looking forward to was the beer and the food. Of course, we had no luck here. there were no corn dogs or pizza or anything at all really other than a little stand that sold chips and beer. Most Koreans brought their own food for the game - rice and kimbap (rice rolls like sushi but with no raw meat). there was a woman selling a few other snacks too, but Chris was the only one brave enough to eat them...

A few members of our crowd had some great luck: Hugo caught a ball and Milton somehow ended up with a baseball bat that he was so proud of he wouldn't let go of it for the rest of the night!

We ended the night of course with some singing and a few more beer!

Pretty exciting so far, and Milton and I still have a great Sunday ahead of us. We have a birthday badminton match with two other couples this afternoon, and this evening we have free tickets to a Korean musical. The office of education offered the tickets to all foreign teachers as they hope that this musical will help us understand a bit more about Korean culture. the price was right and it will give us something else to talk about on our blogs so we are looking forward to it! more to come soon....