Simon and Martina located in Korea asked. We just came back from Australia. Can you compare the differences between Korea and Australia?
Okay, so for those of you that don't know we went to Sydney and Melbourne. Melbourne!
Question number one do you say
1)Mel-burn, 2)Mel-born 3)Mel-bin 4)Mel-ben..?
"Melbin"! The point is we want to talk about some of our experiences of reverse culture shock that we tend to experience whenever we go overseas.
So for the first couple days
Hearing English all the time and seeing it everywhere is really overwhelming because in Korea when we hear someone speak English, it's rather rare
You kind of perk up, but in Australia the first couple of days we heard English everywhere
And we saw signs
Our eyes actually got sore because we keep on look at everything around us
And your eyes physically gets sore within the first couple of days. Which sucks because we're only there for five days
Your in pain for 40% of them you. You really end up being reverse culture shocked. Right. Can we just have a phrase for this like...
I have a word for it "D bubbled"... the reason why is because while we are here walking around Seoul, we're in our own bubble
We think in English and we hear a lot of Korean, but we don't think in Korean
So when we hear a lot of English around us it kind of pulls us out of our bubble. The second thing
we did not adjust well to was actually the food. We were so excited to have breakfast again
Wow yes. The butter.. So much butter.. And bread. And your eggs have really orange, really deep
vibrant egg yolks. However our digestive tracts did not take too kindly to the mass amounts of bread and
Fatty Foods and butters. Yea it was delicious tasting..but it didn't
violence guys
Speaking of violence on the toilet this one thing that we all notice here the way
Australian toilets flush is some of the most violent scary toilets ever your sewer system
Is there hooked up to a water pal because like you push the windows your buddy removing this everyone has two buttons
There's like a baby flush the water and the mathematics lush, but though the way that the flushes are
and maybe like for me like my poos are normal size so like just pushing the baby flush is enough to destroy my poos to
Take a voice
I'm I'm assumed that maybe
Australian poos are bigger than regular poos because if you need a stronger button than the original one that you have it's like
That's scary
This is seriously it has like four holes like in the back of the toilet that use the toilets
Swirling when they go down there was a lot more. We have a fire hose being [boggy] into the toilet surely
I think has stronger gravity maybe because it's at the bottom and then it's about five hours out of the water
Speaking of australian toilet. Oh my God. I had a rather ridiculous experience okay, so here's the deal
We were in Melbourne, and we had eaten something very rich and again. It didn't really sit
Well with my system
[so] I needed to find a public crapping facility and I went to the one at the bottom of the [Starbuck] when I went downstairs
All of the toilets were occupied so I had to wait a bit
I'm assuming that these also were foreigners that [were] cracking their guts out
finally
Family man we've reached the wall where we no longer?
Have any stories. You know that you become one of the family [my] [point] [that] somebody finally left
And I was able to this burden myself and when I sat down somebody like ran up
He was tapping his toes and he's really impatient and he was huffing and puffing so he couldn't take it anymore
He couldn't take waiting
So he just screamed at all three of us crapping our guts out
And I quote it's more a six ball yourself tea toilets
I'm so this is best sauce really nothing. I could do
now
[Jimmy] I found it hilarious
But I was also [very] confused because I don't know why somebody would compare
toilets to sex bar number [two] net what's the sex water sticks for
Australian people tell me what is a sex bar and why does it have similarities to toilets australian people?
We need happy to confess
Tell us about your sex baths because we've been asking other people in Australia and all of you're like
Oh, I don't know what it is. You know I see it hitting in your eyes. This is some kind of national seeking
You're trying to keep from the tourists apparently sex bars
Take a long time behind closed doors because that's the only comparison like as they come speaking of very long time takings
What is up with the australian internet [speeds]? Oh no, holy smokes so a lot [of] people were asking us?
Why didn't we upload any videos while we were there? I don't like how we did in singapore
Well, yeah, try to upload a video every day. I can't believe how slow it is
I'm not even sure if anybody in Australia's watching this out here right now. Go [ahead] like Miss Oyl in Xiamen
I did Korea has the fastest internet in the world, and we're very spoiled like like on Instagram
And it just it's [there] low like you know you know. I don't see [these] [images]
It's there it was [the] [guinness] time I got [all] [that]. [oh] [no] when I was in Australia
I got it on my instagram picture like what's sorely thinking okay? It's like first world problems. I know okay
I'm just saying I was very surprised. I know I tried the text message my friends some pictures like here. We are in Australia
[I'd] press the send button that I was like
I just gave [up] on using [an] [inner] Whitener. How do you use reddit?
How do yes [Gregor's] didn't look I I really just I didn't even want to click on any pictures
I just look at the thumbnails
And I have to be immediately in a thumbnail use my control [that's] right him and [hans] and [hobbes]
I will help thank you for get to later pictures. It's possible that the reason why we experience
This is because we were using the roaming packages [every] us. You know. It's very possible. You're on 3G making a spoil
What's up with all the buff australian men, holy smoke, okay? Like I'm tall like a nice older guys
I've seen have shoulders the sides of my horse. Oh, hey
Did you feel did you feel a little out of place too, sad I'm you dothraki man warrior. [they're] good last year
[I'm] [just] fine. I [listen] specially
I'm fine. I saw high school boys
Who are in like Grade nine or something and all of them were taller than me lucky?
It's a golden yolks that they feed him those golden
Yeah, our Golden [height], so everybody was [very] in shape [action]. Yeah
We read this magazine article being like Australia is having an obesity epidemic
[where] are these people [maybe] we were in the city?
So it was okay, but like even [though] women were in shape people [were] jogging [all] the time. Oh, okay?
I we have a theory about this because for some reason everything in Australia closes out like 6 p.m.. Yeah when we were there
[we're] there Monday like like 6 p.m.. Time to get the hell out of our store
I know
I'm assuming that you people [have] nothing else to do so all of you exercise for bikers everywhere and joggers everywhere
And it's just so I think what's happening is that once again. We're used to Korea
Everything being open to like grocery stores and shopping Malls
[I] mean everything is open the malls closed
It like [9] sometimes nickels at 10 depending
So I [think] we've just gotten too used to that and the last thing that I want to talk about was the coffee culture
Language we were kind of shocked because we thought that
English-speaking North America and English-speaking australia would have the same terms right turns out that Canada and Korea match up
Yeah, Australia is totally different your core economy and large profit. There was a small coffee and largely
[no], there was long's and shorts [like] small short short black Shutterbug long Black no
But that was part of the small coffee look we spilled avoiding or criminal basically
They're like Americanos, but they're called like short black and long short Susie
Remember susy remembers
Hey
You got a [headphone] don't forget it and iced coffee. [oh] my gosh. Yes
I ordered an iced coffee because I wanted my coffee to be cold
[I] didn't know that iced coffee in Australia means the ice instead of ice cubes
I use ice cream scoop of ice cream in your coffee ice cream in a latte so like an alpha
God, oh well, no, but they had a lot [of] milk a lot as well, okay, so next let me go to Australia
We are already starting to think about [Annex] trip there hopefully soon
We're going to need a little bit of a pep
Talk some kind of guide from you nasty, so you could help us out when we go to our coffee. Yes anyhow
we're going to talk a lot more about the different experiences that we had in the other differences that we noticed in us really so
Click on our blog post here, and you can read more about it also starting tomorrow
We're going to be putting up our blog adventure videos from Australia. You're gonna see some of the struggles that we had
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That we talked about the other [crunches] that we chopped to which we are [travelling] to [another] one on Sunday
Very exciting except that's more for like business its business
its business
[Todd], you know when I'm down to my socks the type [of] business a lot of common business sake I have pants on I swear
It looks like I don't but I have pants on