At first I was having difficulty in throwing with the clay but now I feel more comfortable in creating the shapes I want. This is a bowl that I threw, split the rim and decorated with caligraphy. I used some of the slip and trailer to make the inside decoration. I have found out that the split rim is very hard to handle and have broken a few tying to glaze. By the way, all the pots here are glazed in the greenware stage and oncefired, so this makes it tough. They never bisque. I think that all of the students have broken pots during the glaze process. The only time they twice fire is to do a painting technique called overglaze and I will talk about that later.