Well, it’s been… quite a while… and quite an interesting few years since I last wrote, hasn’t it, CaféSeaSeo readers? I’m certainly well, and I hope you have been too, especially throughout this difficult year and a half of the coronavirus pandemic. Here in Korea we’ve been relatively unscathed compared with other countries, though sadly I have lost family members and a family friend back in the US and other parts of the world. Like any other pandemic in the past, it will certainly leave a mark on our lives and in history.
But, life goes on, as we remember all loved ones and past times. And today, I’m thinking of the past a little more. And not only the four years in which I haven’t written in this blog. … Sorry about that. … My current job got particularly busy around 2017, and then when I had time to write again I started my companion blog, Snippets of my Seoul, and I tended to focus on that when I had time and energy for writing. But I’ve still been drinking coffee all this time, of course! And thinking about when I would start to write in this blog again. Unlike many people who discovered copious amounts of time during the pandemic, I, as a teacher, continued working, first through online classes, and then through the combination of 1/3 in school and 2/3 online and later 2/3 in school and 1/3 online. So my life here in Korea was relatively stable, with the exception of avoiding Seoul and social distancing and whatnot. But today I’ve come to Seoul again. It’s only the 5th time or so that I’ve come since the pandemic started. And since we’re still in the strongest wave yet due to the delta variant, I decided to come by car. But why did I come? Well, like I said, I’m thinking of the past. Today happens to be the 10th anniversary of the first time I visited one of my favorite little cafés in Seoul, Coffeest.
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