How To Be Civilized, Friday, Period 3

[1000yearstoolate]

"Welcome back," Seivarden said, standing in the front of the class as if they were a group of baby Lieutenants she had been given command over. She gestured towards the bag filled with a selection of gloves (none of them Mae-shaped, sadly).

 

"Unless you have brought your own, find a suitable pair."

 

She continued: "Last week I asked you about your tea preferences. Some of you had good taste, others not so much. Today we're going to make proper tea."

 

On the table in front of her were an arrangement of teapots, cups and bags of different kinds of tea.

 

"Sadly it is impossible to get proper tea flasks here, but these pots will do. Pick a tea you like, brew it according to the instructions and then describe the result and your reflections."

[Wait for OCD OCD is up]

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Sign In

[1000yearstoolate]

Making tea.

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[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat

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[thishouseishaunted]

Mae Borowski

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[unusual_sith]

Lana Beniko

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[bookbeltof_love]

Nina Argentum

Watch the instruction video

[1000yearstoolate]

It takes the subject seriously.

Re: Watch the instruction video

[thishouseishaunted]

"If you don't have your laser digital thermometer handy. . . ."

Please pardon Mae's cackling in the back of the class. That was the funniest damn thing she'd heard in weeks.

Re: Watch the instruction video

[unusual_sith]

Lana had actually come across this video in her Sunday research. She was fairly certain the man had been joking, but she had found one anyway. She nudged Mae with the Force and showed it to her, smirking.

She was sort of wondering what else it would do.

Re: Watch the instruction video

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae looked over. Lana was apparently very excited about her new . . . thing? Alright. Mae gave her a thumbs up -- well, she turned her hand so the floppy glove thumb was on top, anyway, and grinned back.

Re: Watch the instruction video

[unusual_sith]

Lana huffed in quiet laughter and pulled the trigger, shining a red light on Mae's floppy glove thumb.

Make Tea

[1000yearstoolate]

There's a selection of black, green and white teas of good quality. No artifical flavours and definitely no tea bags. Or milk or sugar. There is honey and lemon.

Re: Make Tea

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae had brought her own gloves to class today! They were, as discussed with the teacher last week, used work gloves. Very used. Probably dug out of the trash somewhere, judging by the suspicious stains gracing the battered gray and blue leather.

They also didn't fit terribly well, because apparently no one in this town knew how to make gloves for people with small paw-like hands. So handling the teapot and and little spoons and things was . . . not the easiest for Mae, today. . . .

Re: Make Tea

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden looked at Mae, frowning.

"First, what kind of gloves are those, second, what are you doing to the tea?"

Re: Make Tea

[thishouseishaunted]

"They're my work gloves," Mae said, the 'obviously' going unspoken. "And . . . making it?"

Torturing it, probably.

Re: Make Tea

[1000yearstoolate]

"Those gloves are dirty," Seivarden pointed out. "And when are you planning on actually put the tea leaves into the pot?"

Re: Make Tea

[unusual_sith]

Well, if this was going to be a honey and lemon tea, black tea was not for that. So Lana was going to pick a nice white tea, put it in the pot, set up her digital laser thermometer, and then start working on getting the water to boil.

With the Force.

So basically, she'd set it up and was staring at it for the moment.

Re: Make Tea

[1000yearstoolate]

Why was she staring at the water?

"Why are you staring at the water?"

Re: Make Tea

[unusual_sith]

"I'm waiting for it to boil," Lana explained patiently.

Re: Make Tea

[bookbeltof_love]

Yeahno.

Nina was of the opinion that if you needed a thermometer to make tea then you'd already failed at making tea.

And because she was in the mood for a green tea, that's what she was making. One with lovely citrus notes.

No, she wasn't going to add anything into it either. There were times and places to add things in—she did enjoy milk in tea before bed—but why would she ruin a tea like this with all of that? The whole point of savouring the actual tea was lost if you just added everything to it until you couldn't taste it at all.

Re: Make Tea

[1000yearstoolate]

"Is there a particular reason for not using the thermometer?" Seivarden asked. "It's fine, if you're used to making it you should be able to do without it. I just don't want you to skip it out of laziness."

Was she still wearing those gloves?

Re: Make Tea

[bookbeltof_love]

She was most definitely wearing her gloves!

Nina smiled. “I mean, like, I could use it I guess????????????????? But I’ve never made it while using a thermometer before so I’m more likely to mess it up if I add a tool that’s, like, superfluous to me????????????????”

Talk to the TA

[1000yearstoolate]

If she's here.

Re: Talk to the TA

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

She is there!

And not at all looking smug about the mention of a 'proper tea flask' which she very much had, thank you very much, but would very kindly not bring it up, because Seivarden was aware of this fact and it would be very rude to bring it up just to rub it in her face.

Although a part of her would always be tempted to do so.

Talk to Seivarden

[1000yearstoolate]

Who might judge you if you make bad tea or don't wear gloves.

OOC

[1000yearstoolate]

I actually agree with Seivarden about tea bags. I don't judge or insult people about it though.