When I came to Korea, I wanted to get a hobby so I would have activities and something to do outside school. And in SKKU there are dozens and dozens of clubs to choose from. At first I tried out taekwondo club. It was okay, but really hard traning, which I do like, but it wasn't quite my thing. Well, later Anja asked if I wanted to go with her to a hip hop club she had found.
It was great! :) Just the fact that you have an activity where to go two times a week was really nice. But what was just awesome was that you met new people and did what I really like: dance!
Ggun.
The hip hop club is called Ggun. It consists of rappers, singers and dancers. And there are many different dancing groups: regular hip hop, locking, popping, girls' hip hop and break dance. We did regular hip hop and locking with Anja.
We danced the whole spring. And we had a performance in May. But apparently the Korean style is that you start to practise for the actual performance 2 weeks before the performance. This is true. We did just some random dance moves and small coreographies the whole spring, and 2 weeks before the performance everyone started to panic and we had practises every day. Those were very stressful times actually. I mean, we had a lot of fun in our practises, but during that time I didn't have a minute for myself. I went to school in the morning, had group meetings, more classes, and straight from those went to hip hop practise. And from that ran back to dorm to get in before the curfew. Yes, ran. And before going to bed did some school work. Because of that I didn't have much time to update my blog either...
Our locking team and late night practise.
People falling asleep...
But then came the big night! :D A concert of the whole club in our school's concert hall.
Anja watching the dress rehersal.
The atmosphere in the backstage was... I love it! You could feel the excitment in the air! People going through the performance in their heads and doing some last minute practising. And cheering before going to the stage. :)
Girls trying out their moves.
Guys doing their last minute practise.
Lockers getting dressed up.
Us in our hip hop performance outfits.
The hip hop outfits were cool, but when we saw our locking clothes for the first, okay also for the second, third,,, and probably even on the fifth time we were... shocked. Hidious. We were about to tell everyone that the performance was cancelled... But. After a while we realized that we're not ourselves on the stage, the clothes are part of the act we're doing. And when I look at this pic, I have to admit that we do look kinda cute with our pink bows. :)
Our locking team.
Our performance went well and we were so excited! After we had ran back to the backstage, we were out of breath, smiling and hugging each other. Oh, I don't want to leave Ggun!
After the performance we had dinner together. Awwaww, I'm gonna miss u! ^__^ <3
