Daejeon and Heroes

Last weekend Nexen was playing HanHwa in Daejeon so I took the train on Sunday afternoon to watch the game. They had played on Saturday as well but I had had plans - even if they got cancelled in the end so whatever... - and had made my mind to go only on Sunday. In the end, we lost the game on Saturday so I think it's only good that I went on Sunday. I had cool things I wanted to show off on the game, so had we lost that game it would have been a bit sad...

저번 주말 대전에 갔다.

대전은 왜 가게될까?

당연히 넥센 보러 간거지 ㅋㅋㅋ

Took me a while to pimp up, as I wanted to make it look amazing: I was going to wear
my uniform for the first time. I wore the circle lenses I got for free when I helped Rosemary
buy her new pair of reading glasses when she was in Korea, and they felt sorry it took so long.
Also put on fake lashes, that I had had for a while (since the Hanbok cosplay in July actually)

토요일날은 할 일 있어서 못 갔는데  일요일 기차 타고 대전에 갔다.

대전은 좋다. 멀지 않고 KTX 타도 제일 비싼거 타도 만오천원도 안 된다. 꽤 싸다...

출발하기전에 시간 많이 걸렸다. 이유를 말 하자면, 그때는 넥센 유네폼을 처음으로 입고 응원하러 간거니까.

화장도 신경 많이 쓰고 렌즈 끼고 불편해서 보통 안 하는 속눈썹도 했다.

결국은 사람들이 이걸 눈치 안 쳤을거지만 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 그래도 그날은 기분이 좋았다.

준비 하느라 시간 많이 걸려서 결국은 빈 기차가 없어가지고 막 시합 시작할 시간 한밭에 도착 했다.

It was my first time in Daejeon, and I realized that it's really close and convenient to go. Without even taking the KTX, in a 1h40 minutes ride and $8CAD, I got to Daejeon. I learned later that if you really care about money more than time, there is even a subway/localtrain that goes directly there (with only one transfer) for $1.5CAD. Yup. Do a 3 hours train ride for a dollar. I love the Korean transport system. Even if, actually I love to hate it (you'll get an insight of that in a bit...).

Anyways. I get to Suwon station around 1:20PM, to take the 13:53 train do Daejeon.... but the file to buy the tickets is incredibly long, and there's nothing to do about it... so I ended up getting the 3PM train, that got me to Daejeon at 4:20, just enough to get to the stadium on time for the start of the game at 5. I almost got there late mind you, since the cab ride from the train station to the stadium took ages. I guess I am not the only one who wanted to watch baseball that day.

The weather in Daejeon was... 

WTF. Why am I talking about the weather.

Actually... no. I want to :)

After a CRAZY HOT AND HUMID summer, the temperature finally cooled off and it feels AMAZING to go outside. It is now physically legal to wear vests and jackets again, and I don't feel like dying if I go out without a hat (I do miss wearing my hat though. Meh, there'll be other summers).

Was still pretty instense under the sun in the stadium, since, being the visiting team, we were on the side the sun hit on.

Did you know that in baseball, the home team's side is always placed on the shaded side of the stadium? I didn't. Ironically, home games or not, so far all the games I've watched were on the left side. I am still trying to read into my fortune and figure out what that means.

대전에는 날씨가...

뭐야.

야구 보로 간 얘기 하는데 왜 날씨 얘기 하는거야....

...그래도. 내 블로그니까 내 맘 이지?

한국 여름 상상할 수 없을 정도 덥다. 더워서 제대로 화장도 안 하고 그냥 큰 모자 쓰고 나간적이 많았다. 근데 그 주맬은 날씨는 시원했다.야구장에서 처음엔 햇빛때문에 더웠지만. 

혹시 알고 있었나요? 야구 칠때 홈야구장이 아니면 응원할 자리는 항상 햇빛이 제일 많은쪽에 있다는것을 말이다. 

난 몰랐다.

이상하게, 지금까지 봤던 야구 사합은 홈이든 아웨이든 모두다 항상 우리 응원자리가 윈쪽에 있었다. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 이상하죠.


어쨌든 해가 뜨기전에 더웠고 안경울 안 쓰고 간 내가 잘 보이지도 않았다.

The Daejeon game was the weirdest game I've watched so far. Both teams were doing horrible til the 5th inning. It felt really awkward to watch actually, but what do we do when we feel bad, we cheer more, because it's our team, and we want them to win. Because we love them. Was my case anyways. As soon as the sun went down (till that point actually, the sun hitting my eyes was so intense it was hard to watch the game, especially taken the fact that my right contact felt loose in my eye and kept moving around so annoyingly) our team sort of got back on its feet. Park Byung-ho made an incredible HomeRun that went out of the stadium, and we finally got the game back.

넥센은 그날 이겼다.

그날은 넥센도 한화도 둘다 잘못 쳤다. 계속 똑같은 실수 하고 피쳐도 재대로 못 떤지고...몇번 바꾸게 되었다.
6번째인닝까지는 안되었는데 그 다음은 박병호가 홈런치고 그다음은 이기게 되었다.

7/3 Nexen Heroes.

Still. It was a weird victory. We changed pitchers three or four times in the first 6 innings and none was ever really getting it right. We did win though, and that made my day.

Nexen Cheering Uniform - GirlGen Style

The Daejeon game was the unveiling of my cheering uniform. It was Ted's idea, to make a Nexen cheering uniform for me to go cheer the team, and it had been planned for a long time, but due to many random things happening in the spring through the summer, last Saturday was the first day I officially got to wear it for a game. I still need to get myself a hat, but that'll hopefully be dealt with in the coming week.

이상한 시합이였는데 그래도첫번째 유니폼 입고 나간날에 우리가 이겼다. 

기분이 너무 너무 좋았다.


넥센 유니폼을 맞추는거는 선배 아이디어 이였고, 4월 부터 이러려고 했는데 일하느라 8월까지는 완성 못하게되었다. 아직도 모자 살 시간 없었는데 시즌이 끝나기전에 한번이라도 쓰고 시합나갈 수 있으면 좋겠다.

 I have no full body view, because I figured there might be a screen shot or a glimpse of the uniform on TV, since it sort of stood out, but I still haven't got anything so far so I'll just upload the links later if there is anything to upload.

 On the way back I wanted to get home before the last bus to Dongtan so I paid the (wow so expensive) $12CAD KTX ticket for a 40 minutes ride at 9:58PM. I was there at 8:50. Had plenty of time so I bought and ate udon (I had woken up pretty late to that day I had only prepped for the game and left home without any kind of decent meal, there was also the fact I was scared I'd be too tight in my pants, that are really made tight...). I went on the train platform at 9h40 ish. And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

They kept saying that the KTX358 bound for Suwon was delayed. They said it was going to arrive at 10:07PM. Then they never showed my train's info on the board and suddently they put a 22:08 train up. Since there were no new from my train I waited.

22:23. I ask a man besides me.

He tells me. Well, your train was at 9:58, it's already gone, obviously.

I wanted to kill someone. 

I'd been freaking waiting in front of the train all that freaking time, with a coffee to wake myself up. 

Gone. 

I went back to the information desk. Half crying.

That was stupid. I know, but I just remembered the flight I missed in Japan with my childhood friend when I went back there for the first time. At the time, my life felt like it had ended. I just went bat shit crazy and balled my eyes out at the airport. Hello pride. No, I mean, bye bye... 

Anyways, thinking about that flight home that I had missed, I felt like my world was completely shattered. I am not even close to my period so I can't even blame it. I don't know. the releasing of all the pressure I'd been through in the last months? Regardless, I almost started crying for a stupid train.

So they put me on the next fastest train, first class seat.

I suppose I should have been happy but my mood was just blegh at the time.

Whatever.

Stupid foreign girl missed her train. End of the story.