Hey beautiful friends & enemies~

Today I’m back with another new section which is called ‘stories of Seoul’ telling memories from my exchange year in Korea.. ah.. how much I miss the times there.

As you might know by now I came back from my exchange year in Seoul just a mare month ago. But if I think about it now I was way to busy living everyday to the fullest so that I had almost no time for my blog. But all these things that happened there, my experience and all the memories are too precious to just let them fade so I figured I should write them down!

So let me finally start! Since I was young I was someone who couldn’t live without music, at some point I even wanted to make it my profession (what obviously doesn’t happened haha). Since 7 I was playing violin and I graduated from a music school at the age of 15 I played some instruments, was in the school band, made my own music dreaming of someday become a composer, make film music.. but the main point is loved to sing. I never was the best singer but singing just made me happy so I decided I should join a university club!

Before going to Sogang (it is the name of my exchange university) I searched a lot looking all around Facebook and other social media to find out if there any cool bands, singing groups that I could join. And I found one. They were called ‘Messy Generation’ shortly Messy-G. I saw some clips on YouTube and though it might be quite fun to join this independent-indie-rap-r&b group.

After the few week of my exchange student live have passed I contacted them through Facebook and got to know that they’re doing an audition for new member recruitment! I went there all trembling (my korean at that time was still.. not that fluent/understandable ㅎㅎ) but they still let me join which made me really proud, since there were a lot of people who were failed..

After joining this univ. club my social skills got much better. We got to know each other more, went out together, got food delivery in our free time (we had our own ‘practice’ room on the university ground) had two mandatory meeting to plan out our performances and of course a lot of practice.

We were about 25 people the managers, the producers and the designers included. So everyone formed smaller groups and we start preparing songs for the first round of ‘performance song decision’. There are two rounds of them. Since we only perform about 20-24 songs (about 90 minutes) we have to cut down a lot because at the first round there are about 50 prepared songs. So we choose the best ones. After the list of songs for the performance is ready we start practicing a lot!

After there’s only 2 weeks left till the actual performance we start to sell ticket on the school ground! We also prepare posters and hang them all around our school including near by coffee shops and restaurants lot of students go to.

I have to say that it was really amazing standing on stage there. It felt really great, performing with friends trying to show my best. Of course being the me I am…. I managed to do some mistakes but let me be forgiven haha..

I hope I could go back to these times. I miss everything, not only the performance itself but also the preparation times and those people who had become like a korean family to me!

AND FOR NOW..

..I’ll keep working on my homework.. ~

KISS&HUG

AU REVOIR

– K