Zhe Shi Wo De Lao Shi
This is one of my two Chinese teachers. Unlike my professors back in the states, we go out to eat with them and at night they sometimes teach us other things--in this case Chinese calligraphy. The great thing about Chinese calligraphy is that it combines the two things that I am worst at in the world--Chinese and calligraphy. Sucks to be artistically challenged. Anyways, Huang Lao Shi first started yelling at me because I wasn't holding the brush right. However, she really freaked out when she watched me write my name in the wrong stroke order. In my defense, I think that you should be able to make up your own stroke order for your own name! She strongly disagreed with me.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
