The Blue Knights is Yonsei University's official cheering group. Costumes and all! Tonight all the exchange students gathered in the Centennial Hall (academic building with large auditorium in the center) and learned all the YU cheers. Cheering is a big deal at YU as well as at Korea University. KU is YU's biggest rival. Each year they play each other in a variety of sports. September 9th and 10th is the kick-off for this semester's athletic competitions. The event is referred to as Yon-Ko Jeon, which roughly translates to Yonsei-Korea games. There will be a baseball game, soccer game, and I believe a tennis match as well. The Blue Knights are in charge of choreographing all the University's cheers and teaching them to all the students. At YU they take cheering really seriously and the Blue Knights put a lot of time and effort into choreographing the cheers.
The Mentor's Club, which is the exchange student club on campus hosted the event tonight where we all learned the cheers and then went out for dinner and drinks afterwards. We went to a German-style pub called Heidelberg Haus, only a few blocks from campus, and had sausage, fries, chicken tempura, and quite a bit of beer. Not exactly traditional Korean food, but it was a nice change of pace. It was also nice socializing with all the mentors. Although I haven't been assigned a mentor yet (I will be soon, they're recruiting additional mentors since there were more exchange students this year than expected) it was still fun to talk to the members of the club and learn more about campus life at Yonsei.
Somewhere over the rainbow? :) That's so cool!! Looks like a lot of fun!
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