Tuesday, July 8, 2008

PS-- Korean Drinking Games!

So, Korean drinking games are pretty much awesome! Tonight I learned how to play 3!

1. "Baskin Robbins 31"
You go around the circle and count from 1 to 31, but each person can say UP TO 3 numbers. Whoever has to say 31 takes a drink!

2. This is a lap-slapping game.
Slap your knees, clap, left hitch hike, right hitch hike. You say the Korean word for "strawberry". But if you are first, you say strawberry on the last "one". ("one" counts as a beat, so you can repeat the pattern of 4 as necessary to equal number of people playing game). If you are second, you say strawberry on the last 2 beats. Third, on the last 3 beats, etc. So you have to count backwards sort of!

3. (my favorite!) Racing horses!!!
You say (all in Korean of course!) "racing. racing. racing, racing, racing!" Then you go around the circle "naming yourself"...."first horse", "second horse", .... then you say again "racing, racing, racing". Then the first person names themself and then a different horse. Example "First horse, fourth." Then that would be followed by "fourth horse, ninth." Etc. I learned how to count to 10 using the Chinese numbers (Korean has 2 sets of numbers, used for different contexts). If I picked them up right, the (incorrect) romanization is something like:
il, i, sam, sa, oh, you, chil, pa, ga, sheep

That's a wrap folks, off to bed!

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