Clairewhispers

I'm a cheerleader

I went to a baseball playoff of Uni-Lions v.s. Macoto-Cobras tonight with Simon and his brother. It was my first time to experience the extremely hyper atmosphere at the baseball stadium. And it was truely fun!

I'm not a big fan for baseball. To be honest, I can barely figure out the game rules for baseball and the system of how it works. But there's an interesting culture for baseball fans in Taiwan. I reckon Asian people love to make games look bustling to show their passion. So the fans here actually participate in the cheerleading activities as well as what we do for the political campaign. In case that I might fall asleep in the fifth inning for being too bored by not understanding the game, Simon bought me a pair of plastic hollow pipes, which are used for rooting for the supported team. The whole cheerleading activing is magnificent in which the fans from each team make all their efforts to root for their support. They prepare a small size of band, several big flags, numberous balloons on each sides. There were some demonstrators standing at the front to show us how to use the pipes to make sounds in accord and how to combine the slogan while making the pipes sounds at the same time. That is an art, I swear! Some people can just do it awefully beaitifully into a perfect momentum instead of making it a cacophony. I saw thousands of balloons flew into the sky in the half of the game while the fans from the other side let them go off. "Wow, " I said in my mind. That was fantastic!

In the first half inning of nine, all the fans stood up and rooted for the team. Every one was yelling, clapping and beating the pipes on the loud cheerleading rhythms. I guess I was acting crazily like a baseball maniac. It has been a while since last time I being so happy, and I was tonight!

posted by Claire @ 2:24 AM