Making tea

However, if you’re naïve and trusting, you just might get conned into making tea. They had a special, small area behind the main tent. It included a small table with the red tablecloth, small decoration and the tea pot/tea and such. Marjon (my ‘friend’) said “oh gee, I wonder what they’re doing here”. Well, we went to look and found a woman making tea under the VERY watchful eye of the master. She did quite well (to my untutored eye) and drank her tea. Lo and behold, when she finished, it turned into “gee, Karen. Why don’t you do it?” Needless to say I got to sit and try to make tea, with everyone looking on and all directions in Japanese. It was fortunate that Tomi-san had shown us how to do a simple ceremony so I could understand a bit of what was said but still…..it was difficult but fun. Turns out Marjon had been tempted into the same area last year so as the new person…she thought it should only be my turn!!!