Sunday, June 19, 2016

Chinese Note

Over the years, K-Pop has preached to K-bao the importance of learning the Chinese language and understanding her Chinese heritage and culture. At one point K-bao managed to memorize a good number of Tang Dynasty poems (which now unfortunately have been mostly forgotten); generally she practices a few characters at least once every couple of weeks.

These lessons have not always been well-received. Indeed, any and all Chinese lessons, particularly of late, have been met with not a small amount of resistance. In some cases, strong words have been used by the little one.

The below seven characters shown below, which were assigned this past week, might be a typical exercise. In this case, the usual complaining of course ensued, but K-bao eventually dutifully went off to write them, along with some other scribbles she added on of her own accord.


Much to K-Pop's surprise, the following message was scrawled on the back.


Perhaps all is not lost!

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