The Practice of Creativity

Today, is simply a practice day in creativity.

Drawing

Next DayVersion 2 Girl:

More realistic form - arms are a little short. :-) 

Language Learning - Mandarin 

My motivation for today's journey into Mandarin is that a language can be a 'Stargate' to emotional bonding with a culture and people.  So I have the goal to learn  a handful of basic greeting conversations and  and be able to hear and produce the 4 main tones used in speaking.  These two short-term goals seem doable in 2 weeks - phrases-

"pinyin chart". 😲

Today's Breakdown of time: 

1. I read 6 pages in El veijo y el mar (The Old Man and the Sea) by Ernest Hemingway. I resorted to looking up all the words concerning the sea: fish, scales, tuna, fishing line, etc. The story became readable and exciting. 
2. I almost complete the first short-story in Poirot rechnet ab (Poirot Solves the Case- my translation) by  Agatha Christie (German).  Ah. This I can read without looking up words.