Let's review: Genmaicha.

Like a bolt from the blue, it's time for the reaper review.

Now, at the end of my first quarter as a college freshmen, I must look back on the last few months. So many things have changed while others remain exactly the same. Returning to Bellevue makes me feel exactly the same as I did before college, and school makes me feel like an adult once again.
Since last blogging, I've gone through a break-up, starting college, a somewhat intense near-relationship, a quarter of classes, drama, tea-making, flirting, flirting badly,  and a friend-group creation and,subsequently, shift. It's unbelievable that summer was only a few months ago, as the possibility of it even existing seems irrational now. At the beginning of college, life seemed nearly perfect. I had made new friends that seemed to fit together wonderfully, as though I had been given exactly what I needed from life. Of course these delusions of perfection never last long, and now we return to just a normal group of people, all jumbled together to make friends, held together by very little more then convenience.

The almost relationship from all of this went horribly. We went from undeniably romantic to barely talking, from good friends to a constant feeling close to annoyance. I want to save it, but he seemed to have changed personalities entirely, in a Harvey Dent-esque exchange. Perhaps at least our former close friendship is salvageable yet.

In all of this, i have some constants. Some friends, some emotions, but most importantly, tea. The only thing in my life that will never change. Today's tea, genmaicha, is sencha or matcha with roasted brown rice. The brown rice adds an earthy flavor to the green tea. This added flavor is why is it my favorite green tea. It originates in Japan, but it is not unusual to find it at restaurants in the US. I got this particular genmaicha from Vitali-tea, but I also recommend the Mygreentea brand genmaicha.

Three in the morning makes you sentimental.