Archive: October 2005, Stories from Korea II

One thing I remembered just a few seconds ago..

a Membership Training of rhe MAY club..
somewhere in the beginning of the semester hasier and me joined the may club on a membership training
Although none of them could speak very good english (except for one girl), it was a great night..
MAY stands for midi association yonsei and is basically about writing or composing your own songs using computer software. They also had some instruments which could be played (bass, guitar, keyboard).

Because we were invited to join their mt we went with them to a place in the north of seoul, i think close to bukhansan national park. Iit was a nice house with a warm wooden floor and enough place for a group of 30 to 40 people. The mt started with some hanging around, playing soccer and preparing the food.

Later in the evening more people started to arrive and the real party started. Groups were divided and guess what..the only two non-koreans in the room ended up in the same team. Although our group, of the four others, was thus a bit handicapt due to the language-barrier, we tried our best during the games. If a team won a game, they got some food, if the lost..the got soju. One of the games was finding words in the newspaper (which we terribly lost :)) and another was passing chips from mouth to mouth..which we won! We were a team with that game and it really went well..I think we stunned to koreans a bit by our speed and accuracy..hehehe

Later in the evening groups started to form where other (drinking) games were played and i tried to join in in the ones I understood..

Around 3am (or earlier) a jamming session started..with a keyboard and our voices. The koreans could sing really beautifully..and I learned a thing or two. This was really a special moment...the club leader played the keyboard in a catchy tune and everybody got a turn in singing a short part of the improvised song..it was brilliant..

Later Hasier and me got hold of the keyboard and started to jam..I played the rythm, he played the solo or melody...I must say..it actually sounded pretty good! Altough I think that the koreans got a bit annoyed of the same tune for about 30 minutes...hehe:)...but we had a great time...

Even later we went to bed...I went into a small room (4x4 meters, even smaller) where already a large number of people were sleeping..maybe about 10..I found a spot and fell asleep quickly..

The end of a great day...