Tea time

We may not be English but we do queue in a very organized line (thanks jilatanaka chuphirunaka) while waiting for the bus (unlike the French for example) and we drink tea at 5 P.M. I don't know who started this fashion, but the fact is that re-hydration in La Paz is really necessary because of its dry weather.
So you'll hear in almost every office people asking about their 'tecito' (small tea), you'll see street sellers drinking a cup of tea (street sellers represent a very large part of the active population) and families that can will be sharing this moment together.

Most teas are sold here in boxes of 20 or 100 tea bags and people won't use a tea bag per cup, they'll try to make as much tea as they can from one tea bag (more than one cup). Most tea bags are wrapped individually in paper, so once you've drunk your cup of tea, you'll have a piece of paper (the wrap) and a used tea bag.

Here is what you can do with these two things:
1. You can use the wrap as paper for taking unimportant notes, you'll use it as a post it.

You can let the tea bag dry and then open it
2. keep the tea leaves for compost (you can put it directly on your plant pot)
3. keep the tiny paper that was wrapping the tea leaves to use it as you would use paper tower, because it is very absorbent.