Wow – I totally forgot about my tea steeping since I was on a long call with a student – it must have steeped for 10 minutes!!!! I was expecting a horrible bitter mess (much like the student I was speaking with!), but I got a delicious chocolatey roasty rich Happy Accident!!!! Can this tea do no wrong? :) Sheesh! I am going to steep it for at least 5 minutes from now on (and I want to run out and buy 29038290348902384 lbs of it so I never run out!)!
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Horrible bitter mess…a lot of people are like that today, huh? Definitely need to get me some of this tea, since it’s so forgiving!
Yes! …and so young (I work at a college)!
I work for a public school system. They’re starting out young!
Ay! I am in school too to get certified to teach – I started wanting HS but I have since switched to elementary hoping to get em before bitter/jaded. Ya think 5th grade is too old? ;)
I overheard a 4th grade girl lamenting the fact that men aren’t knights in shining armor and that fairy tales are crap because boys aren’t charming. Kid you not.
Fifth graders are my favorite people on the planet. I teach ‘em at church and write curriculum materials for them … they’re old enough that you can communicate to them in adult-level sentences, but the middle school snits haven’t kicked in yet. (And Jaime, chivalry is not yet dead among 11-year-old boys…couple weeks ago, two of mine wouldn’t let me kneel on the floor by our activity table…they brought me a chair and saw that I was properly seated. Coulda hugged both of them!)
Uh oh!
gmathis – have you ever heard of the teacher Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans?
http://www.hobartshakespeareans.org/
He is the person who got me REALLY excited about 5th grade for all the reasons you mentioned! If you haven’t seen the documentary film, omg -
http://www.amazon.com/Hobart-Shakespeareans-Ian-McKellen/dp/B000CRR3GA
I could burst out in happy/sad tears just typing about them!!!
Will check it out! I am absolutely in love with this year’s bunch…actually, I say that every year….
I sent Sandy (in New Zealand) a teaspoon of the first ER you sent to me in our first swap. Did you see that her one cup has made her fall in love with the emperor as well? I told her I would share some of my bounty with her! The Emperor and Catherine are mainstays in my house now!
ashmanra – and I will share my next ER bounty with you :) :) :) I hope to visit Premium Steap in the next week to go on a “YAY 92 on a Hard Test” tea spree :)
So great! You are so smart – of course you made a 92, and that was with one lobe of your brain tied behind your back.
Horrible bitter mess…a lot of people are like that today, huh? Definitely need to get me some of this tea, since it’s so forgiving!
Yes! …and so young (I work at a college)!
I work for a public school system. They’re starting out young!
Ay! I am in school too to get certified to teach – I started wanting HS but I have since switched to elementary hoping to get em before bitter/jaded. Ya think 5th grade is too old? ;)
I overheard a 4th grade girl lamenting the fact that men aren’t knights in shining armor and that fairy tales are crap because boys aren’t charming. Kid you not.
Fifth graders are my favorite people on the planet. I teach ‘em at church and write curriculum materials for them … they’re old enough that you can communicate to them in adult-level sentences, but the middle school snits haven’t kicked in yet. (And Jaime, chivalry is not yet dead among 11-year-old boys…couple weeks ago, two of mine wouldn’t let me kneel on the floor by our activity table…they brought me a chair and saw that I was properly seated. Coulda hugged both of them!)
Uh oh!
gmathis – have you ever heard of the teacher Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans?
http://www.hobartshakespeareans.org/
He is the person who got me REALLY excited about 5th grade for all the reasons you mentioned! If you haven’t seen the documentary film, omg -
http://www.amazon.com/Hobart-Shakespeareans-Ian-McKellen/dp/B000CRR3GA
I could burst out in happy/sad tears just typing about them!!!
Will check it out! I am absolutely in love with this year’s bunch…actually, I say that every year….
I sent Sandy (in New Zealand) a teaspoon of the first ER you sent to me in our first swap. Did you see that her one cup has made her fall in love with the emperor as well? I told her I would share some of my bounty with her! The Emperor and Catherine are mainstays in my house now!
ashmanra – and I will share my next ER bounty with you :) :) :) I hope to visit Premium Steap in the next week to go on a “YAY 92 on a Hard Test” tea spree :)
So great! You are so smart – of course you made a 92, and that was with one lobe of your brain tied behind your back.