Today was our second vocational day. The Cheonan group of clubs seemed to have a good plan for this. As often happens, there were a couple of delays and last minute changes, but everyone was off to their vocational activity shortly.
I joined Eboni in the morning to meet with a musician and producer. This young man sings, plays several instruments and has a professional recording studio. He played several songs he produced for famous Korean artists. His genre leans towards hiphop, but he prefers songs that have more melody to them. He was also in the process of mixing a song for a TV performance he has coming up in May. He had laid down all the tracks but the lead vocal, so he played the produced song and sang the lead live for us.
He told us a bit about how to mix the sound for a song, then gave us a chance to act as sound engineers for a song he had recorded. It was great fun.
After lunch, Eboni and I visited one of two branches of the Cheonan YMCA. The Cheonan Y seems to have several main focus points: youth clubs, adult clubs, energy saving and environmental improvement. The Y facility has meeting space and provides offices for several aligned organizations. The Y has several hundred people active in its programs and about 1,000 members, who are actually donors and those who support the Y, not people who pay a fee to use facilities as with many US YMCAs.
Dinner was held in a restaurant next door to the home of the District Governor for District 3620. After dinner, we had a nice reception at the Governor's home, and we met our new host families from Asan. This is the first time we've made a transition in the evening like this...it's a little jarring, but off we go.
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