Weekend Warriors

Hi everyone,

Wow!  What a weekend!  I'll start off with the most obvious starting point, formerly #18 Wisconsin knocking off #1 Ohio State at Camp Randall in Madison!  A huge victory for the Badgers and I can definitely say I wish I was back in college to experience the after-party and festivities that went on well into Sunday morning back on campus.  For anyone that wasn't able to see the game or didn't read/hear about it, here's a recap and highlights from the game:

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=30289027.

Given that there is a huge Badger group teaching over here, we decided we had to find a place to watch the game.  Thankfully we were able to all get together at Sam Ryan's in Itaewon (이태원) yesterday (Sunday) afternoon to watch the game.  I came straight from frisbee, where my team, Team Squid, finally got our first victory of fall league, which was long overdue.  There were roughly 30 of us from Wisconsin at the bar watching the game and the atmosphere definitely made it feel like we were all back in Madison.  It was a great way to continue what was already a pretty great weekend.

The weekend started off well with payday last Friday, always a good thing.  I had to own up to a little bet that I made with Dave and so we went for the first half of our bet for a nice steak dinner at VIPS (a Korean steak chain restaurant) and then onto the PS3 room to try out the new Winning Eleven soccer game.  Those of you over the age of 40 can go ahead and laugh or scoff that this was legitimately on our agenda for the evening (and the weekend) but believe it or not, video games are a part of my generation's culture and how could we pass up a new sports game.  Plus, my interest in soccer has grown exponentially since playing FIFA and Winning.  Anyways, after some gaming we met up with friends in Hongdae (홍대) and hung out for the rest of the evening.  Saturday brought us to the frisbee field for some competitive pick-up games on a lovely autumn afternoon.  After the games we cruised to Itaewon for some delicious galbi dinner and some much needed jjimjilbang cleansing before heading out for the evening.  Two of the girls that came over with Dave and I, Jessie and Izzy, were having a double birthday bash and we met up with them for the rest of the evening.  Sunday was fall league and here's a picture of me from our game:

Getting the disc in power position, nice!

 

It was another great day for frisbee and it felt great to finally put all the pieces together for a win.  Next weekend is the league tournament so hopefully we can go on a little run and string together a few wins in a row.  Great to see the Vikes win this morning over breakfast, even if it was an ugly win, it still counts as a "W."  Awesome to see that the Leafs are 4-0, what a change from the beginning of last season, hopefully they can keep it up.  In other pretty exciting news, I'm going to a frisbee tournament in the Philippines, just outside Manila, at the end of November.  I'm pretty pumped to check off another country and see where all those great (well, most of them) nannies of mine came from (Cecilia, Josie, Fe, Delores...that's all I can remember).  I'm about 150 pages into The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and it is definitely a page-turner, very captivating writing and lots of intrigue.  I'm looking forward to reading some more before bed tonight.  I think that's all from here, as always, here are the goodies!

What I'm listening to: "The Boy With the Arab Strap" by Belle and Sebastian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZPTTgMGCk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVAZXZfIlNk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5B53b9ntQ

Oh yeah, and Dad says hello: