A Memory

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.