Volleyball at Osan

Last Saturday, Rachel had an away game at Osan Air Force Base about an hour south of Seoul. The girls took it to 4 games before winning, and they played well! Rachel especially-she was outstanding-she had a serving streak of 10 serves in a row (or more, I can't remember exactly), and she stuffed so many of the other team's spikes that they were getting frustrated. A lot of the parents watching remarked on how well she played-how confident and calm she was. As James said, "Rachel seems to be the "finesse" player on the team". She always seems to keep it together and that helps the team stay strong. Every single volley it seemed the crowd was yelling "Good job, Rachel!" I am getting the game tapes from one of the moms and making copies :). Unfortunately her battery ran out right before Rachel's serving streak at the end of the game, so we won't be able to watch that again.
After the game, Rachel rode back to Seoul with the team and James, Chris and I went shopping outside the base at Osan. It's a very interesting part of town-more Americanized than Itaewon even. You can pay with dollars instead of won! In fact they prefer it. Weird...but we looked around and ended up buying a beautiful piece of furniture. A Korean bar-a cabinet with 2 doors and a marble top with 2 wooden pieces that fold out to make the top longer. I'll post a picture up when it's delivered in a couple weeks. The hardware on the front is brass-the wood has a dark finish-brown with a bit of red.