Every other Wednesday all of the Fulbright ETAs and their LETs get together for three hour continued TEFL training seminars. Usually, they're at the teacher's center in Yilan city but this week they decided to shake things up and send us someplace new. So we headed over to Tamkang University's Lanyang campus, which is situated literally on the top of Mt. Linmei in Jiaoxi.
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| Showing us how to paint a goldfish |
We got to meet some of the students who are currently studying to become English teachers and we talked about ways to incorporate Halloween and other holidays into the classroom. But the real fun came when we headed down the hall for a lesson on calligraphy and Chinese traditional painting with one of the school's resident artists.
After a few quick but beautiful examples of each, he let us try for ourselves. Since I've been taking weekly calligraphy classes at Pei Cheng Elementary (which, for the record, I'm not so good at), I decided to try my hand at Chinese traditional painting.
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| Christine, Ellen, and I got to keep his example paintings! |
The best part? Since I was paining pictures instead of Chinese characters, this teacher actually let me use my left hand! (Note: The fact that I've been attempting to learn calligraphy with my lame hand is probably a large part of why it's not looking so good).
As you can see, I must have been channeling my Aunt Janet because I painted a tea pot:
Not so bad for a first attempt, right? Maybe, if my life here ever slows down long enough, I'll take up a new hobby.
Beautiful painting as usual gab :) That oyster omelet looked questionable, I think I'll skip that one, or just try a bite of dad's (he's sure to get one!) Call me sometime, I miss talking with you!
ReplyDeleteI somehow doubt that an oyster omelet is the most questionable thing that you'll be eating while here in Taiwan. At least, if I get my way it won't be :)
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