The joint ILS/Lomonosov Moscow State University “Greetings, Vladivostok” program continues, with students from Japan, South Korea and Sweden, in addition to their other classes and excursions, attending a master class called “Russian tea.”
The participants learned about tea made from forest herbs and sampled hot beverages made with thyme, mint and chamomile, served with traditional foods. They saw ways that the tea ceremony has been used in Russian literature and played a Russian national game called "brook."