Brunch and Baseball

Well, it's been almost two months in Korea without a cell phone. Today that finally changed! We activated the cell phone our predecessors left us, so now Bob and I are officially mobile. It wasn't as hard as you might think to go without a cell phone. We see everyone we know at school everyday and email and Facebook work fine for making plans with friends on the weekend. Still, it's nice to have another option.

Setting up the phone was quite an adventure. We don't speak Korean and the employees at the phone store didn't speak English. We tried our best to explain that we wanted to activate our phone and put minutes on it, but we were getting nowhere. Luckily I had Will's number written down on a piece of paper in my wallet, so we borrowed the phone at the store and called Will and Anastasia so she could translate. She told them what we wanted to do and then it was smooth sailing. Thanks Anastasia - we'd still be phoneless without you!

After our adventure at the phone store we went out for brunch at Breezeburns, a local burger restaurant. They serve a special brunch entree in the mornings so we thought we'd give it a try. The deal included eggs, toast and butter, a small waffle with maple syrup, green beans, sausage, bacon, salad, hash browns and a drink. It was definite comfort food and it tasted great!

This evening I went with the other teachers to a Lotte Giants baseball game (Lotte is the local home team here in Busan). I was sans Bob because he doesn't like baseball or the heat.

The game was a lot of fun! The fans are really enthusiastic. There was a man with a microphone on a platform leading a cheer for each player that came up to bat. The fans make pom poms out of newspapers and they love to do "the wave." The other neat thing about baseball in South Korea is that you can bring as much of your own food and alcohol into the stadium as you want! We brought a cooler with lots of snacks and drinks.

Of course just like sporting events at home, you can buys snacks from vendors who walk up and down the stairs. If you forgot your own snacks a bag of squid jerky is only about $2.

***Bob and Lindsey***