Volleyball Overnighter!

Life in Korea is so busy this year. The good news is that it is a different kind of busy from last year at this time (when I was overwhelmed with school work). This year I am busy with volleyball. Since the "flu break," as we are now calling it, we are back to having practice everyday. Plus, we are in full swing with games every weekend and many Wednesdays.

Wednesday of this week we played GSIS, our sister school. In between the boys and girls game there was a big ceremony to commemorate the event since it was the first varsity athletic competition between the schools. My team didn't play well, but pulled off the win in five games. Whew! It makes me nervous when they are so close!

This past weekend we had our first and only overnight in Seoul. All fall sports travel together so there were probably 60 of us setting out after lunch on Friday. That afternoon we played at Korea International School, and Saturday we played Seoul International School. All the volleyball teams played well both matches, but the boys ended up losing to SIS in a really close game. I'm confident we'll get them next time, though!

Because there were back-to-back away games in Seoul, we stayed at SIS; boys on the gym floor and girls in the locker rooms. It was...interesting. I slept better than I thought I would, but it was quite an experience. Everything from no A.C. to a fan that shut off when the lights went off, to really bright exits signs, to students cell phones (that the coaches had collected!) going off at 5 AM, to a strange man walking in in his underwear clearly shocked to see so many girls sleeping in the room! haha. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it (especially my burger for dinner in Itaewon!), but I'm happy we don't have another overnighter!