Happy Black History Month and welcome to the first episode of Teens Making Waves! In this episode of TeaTime, we interview Oriane about her project, Melanin Month. Melanin Month is focused on educating people on Black history and Black excellence. Oriane shares with us her motivations behind her project, the obstacles and personal struggles she has encountered, and her plans for the future. We are honoured to have Oriane as our first guest of Teens Making Waves and thoroughly enjoyed chatting with her. We hope you enjoy listening!  Follow Oriane on Instagram to keep up with Melanin Month: @orianehelen Do you want to be a part of Teens Making Waves? Email us at [email protected]

TW: this episode is about death. In this episode of TeaTime, as we sip on our ice-cold lattes, we discuss death and its meaning in our various cultures.  We find out interesting tidbits from Ellie, discuss history with Aya and appreciate the diversity of our different cultures and more generally, the world. What do you think REALLY happens after death? Let us know by emailing us at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!

Welcome back to TeaTime! In today’s episode, we enjoy a refreshing glass of cold limeade while discussing some more existential questions... What version of yourself is your true self? Do you live for other people or yourself? We explored code-switching personalities in different situations, "seasonal personalities", and our friends' influence on our characters. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the first episode of TeaTime Season 2!!

On today’s episode, we reflect on the past year while sipping some iced cold sweet tea...some with too much lemon. We talk about the most unexpected events of our year, COVID-19’s impact on school life, and how we’ve grown. Enjoy our last episode of Season 1 and get ready for many more! This year has been nothing short of crazy, and we hope you too can take some time to sit back and reflect. Dear 2020, Thank you, next! Sincerely, the TeaTime girls.

Merry belated Christmas and happy holidays to our TeaTime family. Once again we couldn’t decide what to drink, so enjoy our varied holiday beverages. On today’s episode, we talk about how celebrations have been impacted by COVID-19, our holiday plans, and the true meaning of traditions. Enjoy Ellie's short history lesson on the meaning being Boxing Day, Lumi’s festive tunes, and our holiday spirit.

TeaTime is back with another interview! This episode we are joined by the lovely Kei, an artist at the University of Oregon studying Product Design. We discuss how she found her passion, careers for artists and her aspirations for the future. Follow her art and design accounts on instagram: @anakokeido and @ankakodesign. Enjoy the episode and remember you can always contact us at [email protected] Check out some of the pieces we discuss during the episode here: bit.ly/keiart

Today on TeaTime, we hydrated ourselves by drinking water while chatting about the universal language of music. We talk about what music means to us, how music connects us, discovering our favorite genres of music, and Nigerian music/Afrobeat's influence in our lives. If you're searching for some new music( + some bad puns courtesy of Aya), keep an ear open for some of our song recommendations at the end!  

(Content Warning: body image, eating habits). Today we drank vanilla milkshakes (spoiler alert: they were very disappointing) while discussing our personal journeys with body positivity. We share how our body image has impacted us, how our relationships with exercise and food have evolved over time, and what body positivity means to us as a whole. Everyone's experiences are different when it comes to this topic so we can only speak for ourselves, but we had fun discussing how we view our bodies. We hope you have fun listening! 

Join us with today's tasting of Dalgona coffee, better known as TikTok coffee. What started out as a "get to know us" episode quickly turned into a 30 minutes discussion about our mixed accents and how they are a part of our identities. To all our international listeners out there or those who code-switch in different environments: we feel you and hope you relate :)

Our drink of choice for episode three was a DIY chai made with cardamom, cinnamon or both. We discussed our thoughts on an article published in The New Yorker by Brooke Jarvis, "Rethinking the Science of Skin," spilled the tea about our personal struggles with skincare, and shared some lessons from our individual journeys. If there's anything to take away from today's episode, it's that SPF is non-negotiable!