football, oktoberfest & South Korea

Today was quite a nice day. At noon we went to some restaurant, in order to celebrate the 23rd marriage-anniversary of my parents. I ate some Wiener Schnitzel (nothing new, nothing special) because I did not trust the rumpsteak which was taken from a young bullock (don't really know where it comes from normally).

Afterwards I went to the stadium, Ried played against Pasching ("Superfund") in the Upper Austrian Derby. We have got a special player from South Korea, called Jung Won Seo. He's a national hero in his homecountry, something like Hermann Maier is in Austria. So today a friend of a friend of mine took five students from South Korea, who currently study abroad in Steyr, to the Fill Metallbau Arena to watch their landsman playing football. The game itself was quite boring, it ended 0-0 (although we hit the post twice), but afterwards we wanted to go to some typical regional restaurant. But they were all closed (don't know why), so we decided to attend the Oktoberfest at the Hafner (a pub in Ried). They served white sausage, brezn and wheat beer and all the other stuff that is normally served in Munich.

Those guys (three guys, one girl) were really awesome, they were really talkative, made jokes and drank some Sturm (an alcoholic drink made of sweet grapes) and ate Rostbratwürstel. We also learned something about South Korea, e.g. that they have to be in military service for two years (!) - but not comparable with Austria, they aren't even allowed to go home in the evening. Well, after having some more drinks they went back to Steyr and I was looking forward to having a shower, because it's quite cold in the evening, although the afternoon was sunny and very warm for an afternoon in September, and I was just wearing some T-shirt.