I need to preface this by explaining that here, the world stops twice a day for tea, at 10 and 4. People are still amazed that I don’t take tea (when it’s really hot, I can’t drink a hot beverage like that, aside from it not being my habit). They don’t understand that as a nation, Americans don’t do it either. I tell them that they are quite British, and since my ancestors left Britain, that’s why we don’t have tea time. They’re not quite sure whether to believe me on that one.
One of my friends decided that I was to host tea in my dorm’s common room. I can do many, many things, but anything in the domestic realm generally isn’t up my alley. I can throw a baby shower for 35 people… as long as it’s at the church. Have two friends over for dinner? That can make me apoplectic.
I had nothing for tea, and went to the supermarket to get coffee, drinking chocolate (for me!), milk powder, sugar, mugs, bread, and margarine. Remarkably, I already had a kettle to boil water (to use in washing clothes and boiling eggs). I was a bit skeptical about the powdered milk, which bears a stunning resemblance to baby formula. You want me to drink that?
Happily, it actually works well, and I’m experimenting with it… it’s fabulous with the drinking chocolate, which is becoming a favorite after-dinner, pre-coursework drink. Yum!
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