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I have always been infatuated by the culture of Asia. Since I was a young child I loved Japanese poetry, Chinese art, and India's religions. I have been a yoga teacher, tried to learn Japanese for a bit, and currently I work in a tea shop. The Organic tea shop and liberal bookstore, has been the culmination off all of my independent studies. It's like a dream come true. I spend all of my work day brewing fresh premium teas and discussing different books that we have laying around the store. Most of the books in the store are ones that I have seen in other stores and my mouth started watering. Now, when the shop is empty and I have caught up on all of my work, I set myself up with a hot green tea and a brand new book. Usually I finish about a book a week, except for the larger religious texts of the Buddhists or one of the many bibles we have is stock. It's also amazing because whenever one of these new books comes in, I feel like a monk getting a new lesson from his master as I pour over every page and then look for someone to discuss it with. Another great part of my job is all of the free tea. Before I worked here I was already a bit of a tea lover. Now that I have been working at the tea shop for about a year, I have become somewhat of a tea snob. I love trying to discuss the differences between black tea and white tea to customers in the most fluid words I can pull out that particular day. I have gotten so good that I can tell from any one of my senses, other than taste, what type of tea is in any glass in the room. Just one of the many useless skills you develop when you are immersed in something you love to do so much. I have also been allowed to teach yoga classes in the reading room after hours, which has made this shop just a hair short being my home. All I need now is a bed in the back.