[They start drinking so young nowadays!]
Die Bio
Rural Missouri. I'll be attending high school for my last year starting in August. Graduation in May then off to college! I'll need an electric kettle...
Any other Missorians?—where do you all live? Any teenagers?—how old is everyone?
My other love, a rougher but more passionate affair, is of the arts and sciences, especially language and literature. (Check out the Whitman avatar!) I also love all the pure sciences, the other arts, and the scientific art: philosophy. In short, the pursuit of knowledge thrills me.
Any other lit nerds? How many bilingual and English-as-a-second-language speakers? (If there are German speakers, I hope I used the right article.
) What about professionals (or dabblers and hobbyists like me) in the academic fields I mentioned?—Do we have poets? painters? MDs? star-gazers? monks? professors? I'd love to learn more than just the art of tea from you!Der Tee
As for my tea addiction, my theaholism ifyouwill, it started at Wal-Mart, with bags. I didn't know anything about tea, but the variety of selection wowed me. 'Chai,' what I've now learned is appropriately called Masala Chai, was really what got me hooked. Next there came along a tin of loose Moroccan mint, a Christmas present. Then a green sampler from Adagio, and my fate was sealed. Now that I've moved to exclusively loose-leaf teas, not only is the brew so much better, but the selection has widened tremendously. It's a dizzying pleasure to try to familiarize myself with tea's innumerable manifestations, especially considering the different names for each. I'm an eclectic drinker, and plan to stay that way, due to my love of variety. My surely ephemeral favorites—adolescents are fickle people, that's undeniable, and I have so much more to try—include teas from snowbud to lapsang souchong. Also, I've so far been a budget shopper, but I don't know how long I can hold off buying a top-quality Iron Goddess or Yinzhen.
What're everyone's all-time favorites?
And now for the last couple weeks I've been reading and reading about tea online. Cultivation, preparation, history, culture, chemistry—I just couldn't quit! So, of course, I had no choice but to join TeaChat. I've already made a few posts and have even broken a rule.
Sorry, Chip.Wonderful to meet you all!,
Jacob.
Welcome!
