Busan, South Korea

May 5th
Busan, South Korea

Today was great. It was nothing all that fancy or exciting, just good fun. Instead of the usual trip into the city as I’ve done my last two visits, I decided to take part in the crew soccer game that was going on. There’s a field right by the ship, so someone took the initiative to rent it out, I have no idea how. But the game was to be South America versus the rest of the world, something I just simply couldn’t pass up on being a part of.
We all got to the field and divided into our teams. South America didn’t quite have enough people to take on the world, so we gave them China as well. Meanwhile, my team had a few Americans, a good number of Europeans, a few Jamaicans, and Captain Canada. Yep, that’s right, for all my loyal blog readers this should bring back a memory of a certain story back on the Navigator. Well, seeing as it was a world soccer match, I needed to dress patriotically. Since the only patriotic thing that I own on the ship is a pair of Canadian boxers, I wore those. I figured, considering I’m about as graceful at soccer as a moose on a tight rope, I’d rather make Canada look bad then give people more reason to make fun of the US. So among my team was me playing defense in short Canadian Boxers and a now off-white undershirt.
So the game began, and was going really well. Any time I received the ball people simply started yelling “Canada!!” and I felt accepted onto my worldly team. We had the nurse be a Ref, who actually did a wonderful job at it, and the game carried on in a very sportsmanlike manner. I was nervous for playing because if it got too rough, I’d leave out of fear of breaking a finger, but it never got to that point. Captain Canada’s only real danger was probably to himself.
Turns out though that the Chinese didn’t play very well with South America and the rest of the world took home the title with some ridiculous score around 10-2. It’s nice to win after that tennis match yesterday, and even if I can’t beat Poland, I have one up on South America and China.
The game ended and every one returned to the ship a little sore, but with no injuries. I think they’re going to play again next week, maybe I’ll fly back for the game, I’m sure it won’t be the same with out me in the far left corner. The game ended and there was no time left in the port, so that’s about where my excitement ends. I’m writing this on the night of the 5th hoping I can get all of these posted tonight so you can read them before I get home. Tonight I’ll likely do little more than get some packing done and do some internet work as we sail to Jeju where I don’t plan to get off. We’ll see what happens though. Thanks for reading and keep your eyes toward the skies for the next triumphant return of Captain Canada!!!

Oh, and happy Cinco de Mayo!