Look I really like coffee. I really do. I like it so much that when we departed for our 2-month working vacation, I ground coffee and took it with me. I thought I would use it in hotels, because their coffee tastes like .... hmmm, how to describe that disgusting stuff? Well, it is difficult describing the garabage that is served as thin flavorless coffee. I'm sorry I can't put words to hotel's ridiculous offering of their vile coffee.

Well, one host family was a tea family. They did not even have a coffee pot! Can you believe this?!

I made my own coffee maker. I used a large pot to catch the brew. Over it I placed a colander. In that was a wall of alluminum foil to hold the shape of the coffee filter as I pour nearly boiling water on the coffee. I think the only problem with this setup was the coffee got cold. I guess it took so long to pour the water and let it brew through the coffee that by the time it finished in the pot, it was cold.