Rakuten Eagles

We went to a Tohoku Rakuten Eagles baseball game. Baseball is super popular in Japan, so the students invited us to a game. We learned a bunch of fantastic chants and ate baseball stadium food (no, there are no hot dogs...only rice and noodles). During the game everyone gets a huge balloon and we all release them at the same time. It's a really cool tradition -- the video is posted below. We got to hang out with the students for several hours and have fun conversations with them. After the game it was unusually loud in the street (I'm still shocked by the silence in Japan), so we got to sing and have a dance party while we walked home.