Ku-Yon games & Austrian visit

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Ku-Yon games (sept 10-11)
This was supposed to be a big thing for all Korea University students. These are friendship sports games between Korea University (red) and Yonsei University (blue) and obviously you have to wear the right color...that's why I bought a Korea University sweatshirt. Five sports teams (football, rugby, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey) compete against each other. The games are held on two days and students are not just going there to enjoy them but prepare to see those games. They held a 4 hour cheering rehersal beforehand for internationals and freshmen to make sure we're the better cheerers for our teams. Banners hang all over the campus saying "go tigers" and everyone was excited about the upcoming two days.

My buddy organized tickets for basketball on friday. Unfortunately she told us the wrong station so we had to walk quiet a long distance and because of a misunderstanding of time we just saw the last 20 minutes of the game....and KU lost. :(
But the game was fun and the cheering without knowing any choreography or lyrics even more. And as the secound day is more importend we got a little warm-up for saturday.

KUBA organized busses for all international students to come to the stadion where Rugby and Soccer took place. Too early in the morning we headed to Campus, had a comfy transport to the stadion and free breakfast (milk & pastry).
After finally finding a seat (which was kind of challenging because we were not allowed to just pick any seat but sit with our group) rugby started. I don't know how many short pants wearing, muscular korean sportsmen fighting for a ball...that was a good game.

Anyway, nobody was watching the game as everyone concentrated on the cheering and the cheerleaders (who look totally differend to what you would expect them to look like). They wore some crazy costumes not showing much skin and totally to hot for that day and some of them had enormouse flags to wave with.
Even though our cheering was quite impressive, we lost. But then the last of all games started...football (soccer). We, the audience, did our best.My favourite moment was when our half of the stadium was singing "Champs Élysées" totally unexpected and totally cool! And we finally WON this last and only game!

After all the cheering and dancing in the rain I was happy to get a quick shower before I picked up my visit from home: Erwin & Gertschi.
It was the perfect time to arrive for them, to see the most fun part of the Ko-Yon games.
In Anam, near KU they hold the gicha noli (train game). Students are walking from restaurant/bar to restaurant/bar and calling for food and beer...and they get it for free. Alums are paying...so we drank a lot with them! The streets are crowded and there were stages and dance contests on every intersection.
That's what I call a party...they definately now how to do that!

the Austrians

After an awesome but exhausting night in Anam I was thankful that the boys slept even longer than I did. After some deep fried food, which we definately needed, we went up to N Tower. There is supposed to be a light show so we waited some time exciting about how it would be, but then nothing. While I was a bit disappointed about that, I just enjoyed the breathtaking look over Seoul at night!

even the view from the toilet is awesome

The following days were lots of drinking and a HAN river cruise at night. Not very spectacular cause there were rarely lighted skyscrapers on the way. But we had that kitschy neon heart and plastic palmtrees on board and a fountain light show under one of the plenty brigdes.

There was even a bad magician and a plastic rainforest on board. Hilarious and fun at least!

As I had classes and the boys slept everyday till the late afternoon and had some troubles with flightbooking they explored Seoul themselves.

But we had a goodbye party before the left to Jeju island in Hongdae.
Hongdae is an area around one of the most popular universities here in Seoul. There are masses of restaurants, bars, clubs, stores and, my favourite new place in town, a cafe street in that area.
We had dinner at a Hanok, a traditional Korean house, concealed in a dark backroad. That is definately an insider, there is not even a sign saying that this is a restaurant outside.
The owner, a middle aged lady and her mum cooked for us and made everything to make us feel comfortable.
She was so cute but unfortunately didn't want to take a picture with us.

After that traditional and delicious dinner we spend a fun night out in bars and clubs.
It was fun having some Austrians here with me!!! Nothing more to say about that.

our little pinky

handsome pink flip flops