{"id":13,"date":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/03\/31\/post-6-soccerless-saturday\/"},"modified":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"post-6-soccerless-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/31\/post-6-soccerless-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-6: Soccerless Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Picture\"<\/a>Me \/ December 2011
\nPicture by Na-Yeon, a friend of Danielle’s.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I tried to play soccer on Saturday. I failed. Only two players showed up. We had lunch, instead, and went home.<\/p>\n

I played soccer almost every Saturday between September 2011 and July 2012. We haven’t played since then.I don’t know why people stopped showing up, but I can say it was one of my <\/em>favorite things to do. The players were mostly foreigners (mostly English teachers), largely British, with a few Korean regulars, too. Most of us were not very good (a few were), but no one minded. It was all in good fun, and spirits were always high: Whoever showed up would play. Sometimes it was more than 20 people, sometimes fewer than 10. Always enjoyable, to me. I have good memories of these games.<\/p>\n

We played in the easternmost neighborhood or Incheon, called Bupyeong, at a middle school maybe halfway between the recently-opened (as of November 2012) “Samsan Gymnasium” and “Gulpo Stream” subway stations (\uc0bc\uc0b0\uccb4\uc721\uad00\uc5ed and \uad74\ud3ec\ucc9c\uc5ed) [Map<\/a>]. I walked there from my home in central Bucheon, 40 minutes away on foot, across Lake Park. Here is a map:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n