Our local coffee shop

Coffee is an important part of my day. It tastes great and gives you that boost that you sometimes really need. In most countries, if you only had one coffee per day, you would drink it in the morning. I remember a short 9:30am meeting at work in Melbourne. As soon as that meeting was over the whole team would get a coffee. This is not really how it happens in Korea.

Most Korean coffee shops don't open until 10am so no getting coffees on my way to work which would be ideal. The average Korean drinks coffee after work between 6 and 10 at night. I guess this makes some sense sense the average Korean sleeps 5 hours a night and doesn't go to bed until 1am.
Statistics in above sentence may not be accurate...

Loren and I have found a local coffee shop which is a 3 minute walk from our house. The coffee there is possibly the best I have had in Korea. The girl who works (and possibly owns) the coffee shop loves us. We occasionally get free cheese cake or free brownies. She remembers our exact order so we could go in and just say "the usual"....if we knew how to say that in Korean. Our coffee girl's name is "En-me"....or that's what I think she said it was and what I have been calling her for 2 months.

The coffee shop has those "frequent buyer stamp card" things. After I had completed two of those cards En-me was very thankful and told me she would make Loren and I a present. The next week she took a photo of the 2 of us but due to our language barrier we didn't really know why. 2 weeks after the photo was taken, En-me asked me to write down our names for her. Once again, didn't really know why or what she was making but I wrote them down none the less.

Finally, 4 weeks after she told us about the present, En-me gave us a wrapped parcel. We opened it and to our delightful surprise it was a drawing of Loren and I in our coffee shop. Take a look: