Back in Australia, but thought I'd fill everyone in on what happened during my last few days in Korea. After our televised goodbye, a few hours later we ended up out our backpacker's, before heading off to a market in Insadong. We decided our shopping needed a purpose, so did a Kris-Kringle type thing where each person had to buy something really tacky for their person. Then, everyone had to wear their tacky thing our for dinner- It turned out well for me since I was stuck with a not-so-tacky fake Le coq sportif T-Shirt while others were stuck with pollution masks, weird asian sun-visors and and weird headbands.
So we went out to a place every patriotic Australian would go to when overseas- Outback Steakhouse. It was our duty to go and try real Australian food that everyone keeps talking about - so real and authentic in fact, that most of us had never even heard of Outback Steakhouse until we arrived in Korea. Littered on the walls were heaps of crocodiles, painted still-life pictures of Vegemite - everything you'd see in your normal restaurants here at home in Australia!
After eating non-Korean food, we felt we had to fulfil our Korean quotient and do something Korea-related that night, so we went to a norebang, which is pretty much a karaoke box/ private karaoke room, but called something different, probably because of the anti-Japan sentiment in Korea. After stocking up on alcohol from a 7-11, and finding a norebang that wasn't trying to rip us off, we ended up seeing till the wee hours of the morning... Well, not so wee actually, just til maybe 1:00.
The night was still young, so we tried to find a club or bar to go to afterwards, but after walking around for maybe half an hour, we couldn't be bothered and settled for a print club shop - it was a store which had heaps of those passport photo-sticker machines - it had all these free props to use so we kinda got into the whole spirit and did the whole poser thing - it was quite fun actually! Didn't expect to get so into the photo posing thing after the last few camera-filled days- I guess I must be getting used to them...
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