MayDay / Vappu / Valborg!

Since to the Finns and Sweeds here celebrating MayDay / Vappu / Valborg aka labor day is an important part of spring we decided to have our own vappu party here in Seoul!

There were no "munkkis" here so we had Krispy Kreme donuts.

However we did find sparkling wine from a local food market.


But again there was no "serpentiini" here so we improvised and bought party poppers that shooted this shiny strip.

We played games such as the ghost game (where people scream all the time), shooting game (also including variable sound effects) and spraying sparkling wine all over the place. We probably scared some of the locals on their evening stroll.

They were trying to have a romantic evening which we probably ruined...

One of the most interestind points of the evening was when we played truth of dare. People truly dared to ask questions everyone's been thinking about but no one dared to ask. And no one was saved, especially not Ville who was bombed with questions. Sorry!


After the sunset it was time for a ritual that had been waiting for its execution since last Christmas. That was burning Tola's Christmas Goat.




We played the hugging game "where everybody wins" ;) and trusting games (=crowd surfing) which somehow every time ended up a human pile with Tola at the bottom.

Poor Tola once again crushed...

Anyway, our MayDay / Vappu / Valborg night was great!

The next day which was the actual May 1st we took it easier... We went to a really, really cool Jazz bar with totally awesome decorations. The place looked like it had been put together of small metal and wooden objects.






After that we went to a cool norebang with neon lights and sung songs like 'Umbrella', 'A whole new world' and 'Mamma mia' :)