By Varuna aka Shelly aka Shirley haha
So on Wednesday night we decided to go to Yeongwol to a) get some supplies from the grocery store there and b) meet some of Kraze’s friends here in Korea. So we had some burgers for dinner (YAY western food!) and headed off to the bar. I was positive that I wasn’t gonna drink that night because I’d just started on some antibiotics. But that resolution didn’t last too long…
After we had gotten settled and ordered a round of beer (which I didn’t partake in since beer ain’t my drink of choice!), Kurt arrived. Kurt hails from Byron Bay, but he used to study at QUT Gardens Point and live in the Valley back in the day! So as you can imagine, I had lots to talk about with him haha. So he had some beer and started telling us his tales of travel, such as his experiences of backpacking through Europe for 6 months.
Then Stevie arrived. Stevie hails from Manchester, UK and has the accent to go with it! He had beer and general conversation with us regarding his stay here in Korea. So now that there were 5 of us round the table, we decided that we should try some drinking games. We learned some VERY interesting drinking games that night! This is the point at which I started drinking shots of Soju.
A SHORT LESSON ON DRINKING GAMES:
1. Gday Scott. This game is very simple- everyone around the table is named Scott. The first person turns to the person on his left and says: Gday Scott, to which that person must reply: Gday Scott. The first person replies: Say Gday to Scott, Scott. Now the second person must turn to his left and repeat this cycle. Now of you screw up, you take a shot of Soju and your name turns to Glenn. And if further mistakes are made then ones name turns into Bruce. So at the beginning of the game it sounded like this: “Gday Scott (Gday Scott) Say Gday to Scott, Scott!” By the end of the game, with some of us named Glenn and some of us named Bruce, it sounded more like this: “Gday Scott (Gday Glenn) Say Gday to Bruce, Scott!” So it gets more difficult as the game progresses, especially for people with eloquence problems when drinking.
2. Word Association. The first person will start by saying a word (eg. Green) and the next person on their right must say an associated word (eg. Grass). If one takes too long to think of a word, one is penalized and must take a shot. If one says a word (eg. Keyboard) and someone else round the table challenges it: (Eg. Wait a minute, how is Green related to Keyboard?!) One must explain the association between the words or take a shot. If the explanation is valid then the challenger must take a shot! This largely depends on the rest of the table who vote on whether the explanation was valid or not.
3. Celebrity Think-and-Drink. The first person says a celebrity (Eg. John Lennon) and the person on their left must say a celebrity starting with the first letter of the previous celebrity’s last name – so in this case if John Lennon was said, the next person must say a celeb starting with L (Eg. Leonardo DiCaprio). Therefore the next person’s celeb must start with D. The catch with this game is that if double letters are used, the direction of play reverses. If the third person says Doris Day, the direction reverses and the person who said Leonardo DiCaprio must play again, this time with a celeb starting with D and play continues to the right. The aspect in which drinking comes into it is when thinking of which celeb to say, one must be simultaneously drinking their beer (I decided on coke instead, for myself), therefore if one does not know many celebs, then one will be more drunk. If one takes too long (as voted by those round the table) then one takes a shot of Soju. If one says a celeb no one else round the table has heard of, then one takes a shot. (Shiv was particularly inept at this game and by the end had started making up people to try and BS the rest of us, with fairly hilarious results!)
4. Slack-Jaw. A very good game on which to end the night. Slack-Jaw is basically a staring competition between two people, where both parties keep a blank expression on their face and have a slack jaw. The first person to laugh loses and takes a shot. The winner can challenge whoever they want on the next round and they can choose whenever they want that round to start. So conversation will continue as usual and then suddenly 2 people will be slack-jawing. The rest of the table joins in by sabotaging someone’s slack-jaw effort. This is mostly done by cruelly using one’s knowledge of the other person to make them laugh OR by inciting funny visual imagery about Australia’s previous prime minister and other such things.
By the end of the night, we were all hammered but I, being a voice of reason (drunk or not), decided that instead of continuing our night of drinking into the late hours (and imposing upon our drinking buddies to lend us some floor to sleep on for the night), that we should go catch the last bus back home. Rounding these two out the door of the bar was harder than it may sound. Then finally, after quickly purchasing some bread and milk (and other useless items that looked pretty/ tasty in our state of mind) from the supermarket, we caught our bus. As the bus was winding through the mountains, we all got sentimental and began the DnMing.
Then Clarry called and the night fizzled out…..
So on Wednesday night we decided to go to Yeongwol to a) get some supplies from the grocery store there and b) meet some of Kraze’s friends here in Korea. So we had some burgers for dinner (YAY western food!) and headed off to the bar. I was positive that I wasn’t gonna drink that night because I’d just started on some antibiotics. But that resolution didn’t last too long…
After we had gotten settled and ordered a round of beer (which I didn’t partake in since beer ain’t my drink of choice!), Kurt arrived. Kurt hails from Byron Bay, but he used to study at QUT Gardens Point and live in the Valley back in the day! So as you can imagine, I had lots to talk about with him haha. So he had some beer and started telling us his tales of travel, such as his experiences of backpacking through Europe for 6 months.
Then Stevie arrived. Stevie hails from Manchester, UK and has the accent to go with it! He had beer and general conversation with us regarding his stay here in Korea. So now that there were 5 of us round the table, we decided that we should try some drinking games. We learned some VERY interesting drinking games that night! This is the point at which I started drinking shots of Soju.
A SHORT LESSON ON DRINKING GAMES:
1. Gday Scott. This game is very simple- everyone around the table is named Scott. The first person turns to the person on his left and says: Gday Scott, to which that person must reply: Gday Scott. The first person replies: Say Gday to Scott, Scott. Now the second person must turn to his left and repeat this cycle. Now of you screw up, you take a shot of Soju and your name turns to Glenn. And if further mistakes are made then ones name turns into Bruce. So at the beginning of the game it sounded like this: “Gday Scott (Gday Scott) Say Gday to Scott, Scott!” By the end of the game, with some of us named Glenn and some of us named Bruce, it sounded more like this: “Gday Scott (Gday Glenn) Say Gday to Bruce, Scott!” So it gets more difficult as the game progresses, especially for people with eloquence problems when drinking.
2. Word Association. The first person will start by saying a word (eg. Green) and the next person on their right must say an associated word (eg. Grass). If one takes too long to think of a word, one is penalized and must take a shot. If one says a word (eg. Keyboard) and someone else round the table challenges it: (Eg. Wait a minute, how is Green related to Keyboard?!) One must explain the association between the words or take a shot. If the explanation is valid then the challenger must take a shot! This largely depends on the rest of the table who vote on whether the explanation was valid or not.
3. Celebrity Think-and-Drink. The first person says a celebrity (Eg. John Lennon) and the person on their left must say a celebrity starting with the first letter of the previous celebrity’s last name – so in this case if John Lennon was said, the next person must say a celeb starting with L (Eg. Leonardo DiCaprio). Therefore the next person’s celeb must start with D. The catch with this game is that if double letters are used, the direction of play reverses. If the third person says Doris Day, the direction reverses and the person who said Leonardo DiCaprio must play again, this time with a celeb starting with D and play continues to the right. The aspect in which drinking comes into it is when thinking of which celeb to say, one must be simultaneously drinking their beer (I decided on coke instead, for myself), therefore if one does not know many celebs, then one will be more drunk. If one takes too long (as voted by those round the table) then one takes a shot of Soju. If one says a celeb no one else round the table has heard of, then one takes a shot. (Shiv was particularly inept at this game and by the end had started making up people to try and BS the rest of us, with fairly hilarious results!)
4. Slack-Jaw. A very good game on which to end the night. Slack-Jaw is basically a staring competition between two people, where both parties keep a blank expression on their face and have a slack jaw. The first person to laugh loses and takes a shot. The winner can challenge whoever they want on the next round and they can choose whenever they want that round to start. So conversation will continue as usual and then suddenly 2 people will be slack-jawing. The rest of the table joins in by sabotaging someone’s slack-jaw effort. This is mostly done by cruelly using one’s knowledge of the other person to make them laugh OR by inciting funny visual imagery about Australia’s previous prime minister and other such things.
By the end of the night, we were all hammered but I, being a voice of reason (drunk or not), decided that instead of continuing our night of drinking into the late hours (and imposing upon our drinking buddies to lend us some floor to sleep on for the night), that we should go catch the last bus back home. Rounding these two out the door of the bar was harder than it may sound. Then finally, after quickly purchasing some bread and milk (and other useless items that looked pretty/ tasty in our state of mind) from the supermarket, we caught our bus. As the bus was winding through the mountains, we all got sentimental and began the DnMing.
Then Clarry called and the night fizzled out…..
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