My kingdom for a good cup of tea

I almost always have a cup of tea in hand. I come from a family that, if at a restaurant the tea selection is not up to par, someone will pull out a couple spare teabags and ask for hot water instead. I spent time in China, where you can get hot water for free just about anywhere, and in Japan where there are usually about 3 vending machines on every street corner, each carrying a wide selection of canned hot tea and coffee (real brewed tea), with sugar and milk or without it.

After that, this is a disappointment.



The hot chocolate is passable, but the tea tastes like weak coffee.

I can (and do) run to the cafe (I forget the name of it) by the Student Center and they have always been happy to fill my travel mug with hot water (some other places on campus have charged me 50 cents for hot water). However, lugging my laptop, purse, lunch bag, books and anything else I happen to be carrying with me from the SCILS building there and back every time I want a cup of tea gets tiring fast.

Mostly, I've ended up buying the green tea citrus thing from the soda vending machine. It's not bad, but its not really tea either.

For the positives of my SCILS experience (except for the hair-eating chair) check out my Flickr set. And here is the 598's group SCILS experience.