How do you draw an ice cream cone?

I obviously have no idea.

Here's the thing. I'm not visual. I'm just not. On the Barsch Learning Styles Inventory, I score super high on auditory, medium on kinesthetic, and about as low as humanly possible on visual. I honestly don't notice what things look like. That, combined with my non-existent artistic ability, means I can't draw stuff.

At all.

So usually I don't try.

But recently I've begun teaching for VIPKID, an online program that teaches English to children in China. It's super fun; I had no idea I'd enjoy it this much. But occasionally, the teacher has to draw something to show to the student, who often speaks very little English. Tonight, I was teaching a 9-year-old boy, and I needed to show him an ice cream cone. So I got out my cute little white board, and drew this:

You can stop laughing now.

I tried my very best.

The poor kid probably still has no idea what I was trying to show him. When Shulamith saw this, she said, "How is that ice cream??" Then she proceeded to draw an ice cream cone, with round scoops, one on top of the other. When I saw her drawing, I thought, "Yes! That's what an ice cream cone looks like." But I would never have thought of it myself.

Being an auditory learner has its advantages, though. We remember the words to nearly every song we've ever heard. We can memorize lines in plays with ease, and we're really good at learning foreign languages.

But drawing ice cream cones?

Not so much.