November Nexen M.T.

If you have travelled a minimum in your lifetime, you will have stopped in what are called "truck-stops" - at least, we call them so in Quebec, because those are the mandatory stops truck drivers have to make after a set amount of kilometers run between cities, so small villages have set their earnings by offering cheap fast-food for the stopping drivers.

As mentioned, truck stops are not gourmet places. They have hot-dogs, hamburgers, poutine (in Québec) fries and the like. Well there are stop places along the highways in Korea too, where people stop to stretch their legs and eat a bit. The food is Korean fast-food. Japanese udon or fried cutlets, Korean bibimbap and soups.


Hisayong - the baseball crew I cheer with in Mokdong, had what they call a M.T. (sadly can't remember what the acronym stands for) on November 15,16. It's weird because I feel like it was only a few days ago that November felt so far, but we are almost Christmas. Cold winter has started in the East.

 This is crazy.

So Nexen is not playing in Mokdong for a few months and I have until December 20 to decide if next year is worth getting a season pass. If I stay in Fortis then it might be a good idea, because I can go directly after work. If I don't, well I might stay a bit longer in Canada after my contract and get back to Korea late in the season so I really don't know what is best yet. I wish I knew more about what is coming for me work-wise in Korea.

Anyways. I am going on a tangent.

When we went to the MT, we stopped at a rest stop and I ordered something that looked yummy, half-expecting something weird. It looked like small rice balls with fried crispy onions on top, with mayonnaise and greens on top. I felt like an expensive restaurant in Quebec might be selling those, with a more expensive sauce type. The food was $4.

It was exactly what I expected. And I was surprised by it. It was super simple, yet so tasty. And the amount, small enough to fill in my easy-to-fill stomach without making me feel too full. Anyways. It was blissful in my mouth.

So here we are for Korean truck-stops.

Win. 

The stop also had an amazing system of this-toilet-is-taken red and green lights at the top of each doors. Isn't this amazing? It blew my mind.

Then again. 

It doesn't take me lots to get mind-blown. I enjoy life like that.

And yes. I am creepy like that. I take pictures in bathrooms.

I had a ride from a friend going to the same place, and we got there early afternoon. The pension was really nice, with a build-in Jjimjilbang (sauna) and large rooms. If I may complain about one thing, it was that, later, we found out that there were like only 4 sets of blankets in the building.

And we  were over 40 people.

Can't have everything they say....

As soon as everyone got there and settled, we headed to a local elementary school to play Tball. We had split everyone in 4 teams and played al afternoon. It was still warm with the sun up, and was a great day out.

Haebaragi Team for the win. We ended up 2 nd place in the 'championship', so I decided that we were Nexen, as Nexen finished second this fall. Much better than being Samsung. :P

Me, looking amazing.

Frgetting to let go of my left hand after hitting, concentrating expression, huge looking layers of Nexen jackets and .....

Ball got caught.

Out.

Oh well...

I kept this picture because I think I look cute walking nonchalantly at the back, and I did not really like many pictures of the ones that were taken that day, save that one. 

Part of our evening's refreshments. There was amazing meat Bossam for dinner with goodies that came later. I actually got a bad migraine that evening and ended up not eating much, and not drinking much, and sleeping pretty early so I missed part of the fun, but oh well....

In the evening, the games continued and in the end, our team finished first. There were a couple of nice prizes but the one I really wanted, Jungho Kang's cap from when he was number 25 of the Hyundai Unicorns, went to someone else on the team, and no amount of aegyo - Korean way to act cute in order to obtain things from a man -  got me to have it.

The next day, most teams had to reform, because half of the people had gone back to Seoul so we re-teamed and played one game of t ball, and ... shoot, what's 'balon chasseur' in English? The game where you need to hit people on the other team around the legs and they have to get out of the field and throw the ball from the outside? Anyways. We still won.