Back to school

After reading all about U3A. In 

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I decided I needed to do some research and discover if we had one here   

We do. I hopped into the website and found they had a calligraphy class

It’s on every second Tuesday

I filled in the form, paid my membership fee and yesterday had my first class

There really wasn’t enough students to warrant a class so the have extended it to encompass any craft or just come for. Chat. 

There was one calligraphy student but wasn’t present

So I got all the teacher’s attention 

My teacher is 90 years young. Her arthritic hands can’t write with the nib pen anymore so she uses a thin texta to show you. 

I picked up the pen and I was instantly back in primary school. This is the first pen I ever used. We had the ink well and blotter paper. 

I didn’t “ know” how to use it, but my hands and fingers did. 

It was quite a bizarre experience 

Anyway I got given practice pages 

The first two on each line is the example. The rest are mine 

She was very impressed with my A’s. 

I still to this day write my A’s like that. So they were really easy. 

I wasn’t learning.  I was remembering 

The two hours flew and it was time to finish before I even started to get bored with writing letters. Although the last few pages did have words to practice 

So now that I know I enjoy the class. I’ve ordered my own set of calligraphy pens and ink. 

Hopefully soon I’ll be able to write fancy messages on all my Christmas and birthday cards. 

Doing so much typing and so little actual writing these days , my hand writing has deteriorated. 

This should help reverse that.