One thing I do enjoy about teaching here is the students, especially the foreign exchange students. Since I teach in English many of them take my class. I have students from France, Germany, and China as well as Koreans.
One night they invited me to go with them to a soccer match. They had received tickets from the embassy of Senegal through a Senegalese student. We went by bus to the stadium, and everyone had to sing a song from their home country (I sang "California, here I come" since some French guy had already sung the "Star Spangled Banner"). Oh yeah, did I mention that there was much beer involved?
The game was Korea vs Senegal, and it was basically boring. However the stadium was interesting and the crowd was fun.
As you might imagine, there aren't an awful lot of Senegalese in Korea so we were a big part of the rooting section.
Final: Senegal lost. Tears for "our" team.
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