I am a tad emotional when I discover that the team have bought me a china tea cup and a pack of English tea for my birthday. I had pretty much cold turkied on tea since I arrived here. I hate the way this sounds but no one really knows how to make it here. Or rather no one makes it English style (with milk). It’s just one of the many things (the majority of my English vocabulary being the other) I had always regarded as normal before I came here. I have since been made to feel however that I am either delusional or the only person in the world that does it like that. So now, armed with my new teacup I can rediscover the joys of English style tea and become a living cultural stereotype.