Patience........

Took up this elementary course in chinese calligraphy 2 months ago. The weeks that followed were spent learning the basic 8 strokes, from the dot, horizontal, vertical strokes, the hook, the corners, the upward and downward slashs and "bushy" tail stroke, etc. It's dot after dot, after dot... and stroke after stroke after stroke.... Patience, patience, and yet more patience........

Finally, after 7 patience weeks, we are told to try to write our first chinese character. Ha, ha! Not bad at all ! It did look alot like a proper chinese character. More to come? Patience.............. and I will need sponsors for more writing papers.