World Cup Fever

We spent the weekend in Seoul with our friends, Danny and Katy, from Colorado.

Danny and Katy at Ponchos, a Mexican restaurant in Itaewon - Itaewon means place of foreign birth. This area is highly populated with foreigners. It was such a change to see this amount of diversity!

Seth and I enjoying good friends, good food, and laughter in Itaewon

Everyone in this popular shopping district was walking around with these face-size (as Katy would say) ice cream cones. We couldn't resist.

Oh, yes! Koreans love the Twilight Saga too :) I can't wait for Eclipse to come out.
P.S. I am learning Korea. I can read what the ad. says!

We went to Seoul City Hall to watch Korea play in round two of the World Cup. Soccer is Korea's biggest sport. Throughout the first round, everyone stayed up all night to watch Korea play. My students and co-workers came to school exhausted because of late game schedule.

Seth and I have jumped on the bandwagon. We decked out in Red Devils gear and cheered with the best of them. At City Hall, there were tons of huge flat screens set up for the game. Every single person was wearing red. You can see all of the glowing devil horns. We joined in dancing, jumping, cheering, and yelling for Korea. We arrived at City Hall two hours before the game began. The park was so packed that we didn't even attempt to find a sitting spot. People were flooding the streets. The police had to close the major highway because of the high concentration of people. We were standing under a stoplight watching the pre-game show.

Supporting Korea

Danny and Seth looking so cool

Right before the game started, it began to rain, but the rain didn't scare us or the Koreans away. Everyone bought ponchos and stood out in the rain wet and soggy cheering for Korea. I'm sad to report that they didn't win, but it was a once in a life time opportunity!

-Anna