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Event Description
Tea Demo & Workshop at Marist College
You would never imagine someone would send a bomb threat at this beautiful
Marist College, but it did happen last year on the very day we were supposed
to provide our annual Tea Ceremony Demo there. We almost knew it was just a
threat but didn’t want to ignore the possibility either, so we had
cancelled our event then. So, it was nice to be back again and witness the
campus was as peaceful as we had left two years ago. It was also good to
know they never lacked with students who were interested in Asian culture,
and so there it was the Asian Alliance Club with many enthusiastic students
lead by Wendy (Si Ya) Ni who was their Vice President this year.
In the past we provided Tea Ceremony mainly demonstration till 2 years ago
when we had the students to experience making tea sitting on the Himousen (a
red blanket) because there was only a few participated due to the weather at
that time. Since we realized they truly loved it, we again tried a workshop
following a demo, only this time having added 4 more instructors at the
table set-up to help nearly 40 students how to “make your own tea”.
I hope that their enthusiasm had increased after this rare opportunity they
experienced, and that would lead to a peaceful relationship with whomever
they may have in the future, in business or personal life. After all, these
students may be the ones leading our community or, who knows, country one
day… Peace is the first thing in our mind as the very basic rule when
dealing with overseas countries. While this is far from politics, I simply
hope that the spiritual philosophy they may have learned from today’s tea
demo and workshop would stay deep in their mind - it is “Peace”.
Midori Shinye
Project Leader
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