Just remembered this as I poured hot water over my tea leaves for my morning cup of tea.
We were in China in 2010 visiting Sarah our youngest daughter who was teaching oral English at a Chinese university. She even had PhD students who had to take oral English.
One of the things we did with Sarah was to go tea shopping. This was an interesting experience as the young woman that helped us taste different teas that she would brew didn’t speak a word of English. Thankfully, Sarah spoke Chinese.
At one point, Sarah and the young woman couldn’t agree on the word that they were trying to understand so Sarah wrote the word on her palm. Now, of course it wasn’t the word. It was the character the Chinese character. At that the young woman said aw she understood what Sarah was trying to say.
I have lots of tea pots, well at least three. I rarely use the one I got from China on that visit. The tea I purchased then is long gone. It was very good. I’m remembering this too because my source of buying tea leaves, Larkin tea company in Morgantown West Virginia has now closed up shop. I’ll have to find another source.
(I used dictation to write this. It’ll make it easy to post when I’m in Greece in April.)
So much for posting some pictures with this. I’m using my iPhone and trying to access the pictures. It tells me it can’t do it. I’ve done it before though. One more try.
Nope.
Lots to think about as we prepare for a trip to Greece with Roads Scholar in April. It's not been canceled by the tRump's war.
Getting out of US may be a challenge with TSA issues. We do have TSA Precheck which I've read is a faster line. We will arrive at the Boston airport 3 hours ahead of time but will need to get lunch too. We leave home in the morning and take a 2.5 hour bus to the airport!
Here is some of what I do to get ready.
First I print out a packing list. I printed one for Dan too. You see I make lots of notes on it.
We will be using vacuum bags for packing our clothing. It worked for our two week trips to Spain and to Switzerland but for both of those trips we had laundry facilities in our apartments. On board the small ship there is supposed to be laundry with limited availability so still struggling with what combinations of clothes to take. The weather is not going to be as warm as I originally thought when we booked this trip. Athens will probably be the warmest and the islands in the Aegean will be cooler. Today highs there are in the 50s.
I start assembling items to take on the guest room bed. Unfortunately I'm going to have to move all of this when granddaughters #3 & #4 come on the 2nd.
Roads Scholar has sent us name tags and suitcase tags.
... just a random photo or two.
