Back in October 2009, my son and I attended an origami show at the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin. The show was terrific and featured some beautiful works of art, but as it turned out, the best part of the show for us was an ad hoc demonstration of modular origami by a local high school math teacher. The teacher had brought paper, models and instruction sheets, mainly to be used by his students (who he had encouraged to come out) but he also helped out anyone who happened to express an interest in learning. Aren't teachers great? So, for about an hour, my son and I sat on the floor and made our very first two modular origami pieces. Neither piece was particularly neatly done, and the damp air made fitting tabs into slots very tricky, but we had a SUPER time, and even better, we were hooked.
And so it began! Fun to look back on that now...seems like so long ago!
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