A Little Magic for 2016...

Yuki
Dec 31, 2015
3 min read

In Korea, I never really get the Christmas feels easily. There is this thing about the lack of snow and the lack of family around that makes it harder to get there. So everytime it snows, I go crazy. I actually go crazy in Canada too, but let's not go there. I don't know if it's just that I want to go back to the times where everything was simple, everything was pretty and easy, but I just SEE the shiny stars around pretty things like fluffy falling snow, and feel like a kid again.

We filmed all day yesterday, so we wouldn't have to film on New year, and there were a few kids on set. The filming was draggin on, and they were either lying on couches all drowsy, or playing phone or tablet games.

The crew manager came back inside from the filming set, and I saw he was covered with big flakes of snow.

My eyes got big and round. I'm also sure there were sparkles around too. I can't remember well...

I had not gotten to sleep the night before as I had extra work in a soon-to-be-aired drama calles the Descendents of the Sun the day before, and the shoot ended at 6 am. To be on the bus on time for 7am I had to go directly on the bus, hoping I'd get a blessed 2 hours of sleep waiting for the people to arrive, then driving to Ilsan to get part of the crew... (after, from Ilsan to Yanjoo, I'd have to read the scripts and make sure I knew who was supposed to be where and when so no sleep there).

I feel like I must have been running on emergency energy, I was not even tht hungry (anyways, not hungry enough to want to eat pizza...), but when I saw snow, my head went blank. I just ran outside and danced in the snow, withouta jacket.

The thing about fluffy snow is that it never falls on cold weather. Whatever Koreans' opinion might be regarding that, fluffy know needs humid chilly weather, not cold. When it's too cold, it's a squeeky snow that falls, and it looks more like fast-falling salt, or flour.

What we had was bunny-pelt snow.

Humid sticky snow that glued each other to other flakes, making each fall slower, and looking like the sky was covered in pelts, or summer pollen (but let's not to there, because pollen is eeky for many people)...

The yangjoo set is high in mountainous areas, countryside surrounded by beautiful trees, and with no background car noises. Snow falling in that context can only be magic.

I took a few pictures before getting back in the building, but pictures never render the beauty of nature the way the eyes do.

When I came back in, I saw the kids, the way I left them when I left outside.

It had taken less then 5 minutes afterall.

It made me think about a part of this Christmas magic video, where happiness is reducted to it's simplest form. By the end, the fairies spreading Christmas magic cut all energy from the kid's video games, and they just run outside all at once, to marvel at the snow falling and play outside.

https://www.facebook.com/zurnalasLaima/videos/10152859120538769/

I remember that when I saw the video, I felt sad. There were more probabilities that in such a scenario, kids would only throw a fit and not even get to enjoy the white Christmas.

I tried anyways.

"Kids!!! There is snow outside! It is sooo beautiful!!!"

Then.

Maybe happiness was showing in my face, because magic happened.

They lifted their heads from their blankets and tablets, and ran outside. They started running around one the snow carpet, melting the snow with each steps throwing each other small snowballs and looking up at the sky.

That my friends, is how magic starts.