“Chirp Chirp Chirp” cicadas sing and the summer sun shines all over in June. Taking a nap and taking a rest under the perfect sunlight in summer, you can be reminded of your childhood memories, when you hung out with your friends without any worries about study, employment, etc. So, how about making good memories with friends during the summer vacation after you finish your final exams in June? Even though it might seem a bit childish, CAH believes that you can add a valuable page to the story of your youth with the following methods.

Cook Memories, as Well as Delicious Food

Many students usually eat out or do not have proper meals due to time limitations. However, let’s cook for each other. While cooking together, you can add your memories, too. While preparing dishes, you will find various characteristics of your friends: which flavor they prefer, which ingredients they are allergic to, and more. In addition, you and your friends can become closer by knowing about each other when you enjoy the food you cooked and share relevant episodes of those dishes. It is okay if your food isn’t perfect. The most important thing is spending time together, and it will be more delicious to have meals together. If you are not good at cooking, CAH recommends buying some easy and cost-effective meal kits. Moreover, let’s cultivate cooking skills together with 1 Day Cookery Course. It will be a good chance since the experts prepare ingredients and tools in advance, and give kind instructions while you cook. Referentially, costs for those courses vary per meal: from 30,000 won per person for simple light desserts, or more for Korean foods.

I Will Be Your Secret Angel

Even though you and your friends always cheer for each other, it is quite difficult to always support friends in person since everyone is busy with their own lives. Then, how about being a ‘secret angel’ to deeply support your friends and to have more interest in each other? Let’s be a secret angel for one of your friends by picking one before going on a planned trip with them. It will be a very interesting and surprising memory of caring for your friend that you picked in secret with small acts of kindness such as passing over a tissue and removing dust from his or her clothes during the trip. You will check which parts your friend needs help such as spilled food, easily falling on the street, and leaving things behind by watching over the friend that you picked. Also, let’s prepare a small gift considering foods or characters that your friend likes before revealing that you picked them. Your friendship will be stronger and more valuable memories will be left when you give a present and letter with sincerity while revealing each other’s secret angels. There is a tip for guessing other friends’ secret angels. He or she would be a secret angel who excessively watches one friend or stays by that friend all the time. Let’s try to surprise friends by preparing cute gifts such as a good-luck charm, beautiful postcards, or tiny dolls at various prop shops nearby.

Record Our Moment

In Korea, people often take “4-cut photos” at instant photo booths on the street before saying goodbye to their friends. They usually pose in cute ways with bright smiles for those photos with their friends and store the printed photos. Although saving those unique moments in the photos is very memorable, why don’t you record natural scenes of your friends with their voices, surprising moments, and scenes of making fun of each other? Recording those moments will help you cherish the atmosphere of that time by using your cell phone camera to capture your friends laughing. Naturally, you are going to put on a smile while you have a hard time if you see those videos and bring back the memories with your friends. It is even okay to have foolish or conflictual scenes because those are part of memories, and what makes a real friendship. These photos and videos are priceless since friends in the photos and videos can cover and understand you. Even though you can feel embarrassing to see yourself in a video, CAH hopes to enjoy the youth with the camera. Also, you will enjoy utilizing a camcorder or professional cameras accordingly to your favor for more mood. In addition, there are diverse camera experience shops that print pictures with vintage film cameras and allow you to choose color and image resolution. Moreover, renting film cameras is not hard nowadays. So, let’s record moments with your friends with these methods!

These three ways are good not only for trying but also for filling a page of the youth. I have experienced all of these and felt happy by coming up with memories during tough times. It is fine that you do not have friends to do these three things. Why don’t you approach a friend that you want to become closer with and suggest doing these with him or her? Even though nobody knows the future, that friend can be your best friend forever. Let’s have happy 20s which are only once in your lives!