Calligraphy show

the ticket

I was writing words

the artwork and me

Cherry Ada and me

Last Saturday, I want to Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum with my classmates Ada and Cherry. It was one of Nanjing Foreign language students Ms Chen's calligraphy show. Originally, we want to go to Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, but that day all NFLS students went to The Great Hall of the People and watched performance, we finished watching that and I saw Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum near Great Hall Of The People, so we all went to there visited.
We came to the museum, and saw lots of different style of calligraphy dazzled my eyes. I thought why did she has a lot of time to wrote so many beautiful calligraphy, she must spend more time to do that, I also saw a paragraphy wrote from NFLS principal Mr Dong, it wrote about this student, I was very admire her. My favourite calligraphy is wrote Long Live, Our Motherland in Chinese, it was celenrate China established sixty years.
I like this exhibition, because this exhibition shows artwork from our school, I feel pround of I am one of a NFLS student, and I was interested in calligraphy, so I did not felt boring about that. When we prepare to live, I found a special book, near that book has Chineses brush and Chinese ink, we asked the person who responsible that, he said we can write our name in this book, it represent you came to there. Then, we held the Chinese brush and wrote our name in it. That page has Ada Cherry and Annie's name, we turned front of this book, we found that we wrote was the worst writing, but we think that was intersting.

Eating in Round Table

I was eating

the menu

Yesterday, my mother and I ate lunch in Round Table. Round Table was a western restaurant, located in Nangjing 1912 street, so it is easy to go to there.
We arrived there, and saw there was so many people waited, so we also waited about half hour. I opened the menu, it has eight varieties, i t include bread, salads, drink, soups, hight-eibre vegetables, meat, desserts, and beverages. Everyone can choose one of each of it. I think this can make you easy to order food. A little while, salad and soups was hold on the table, it looks colourful and very high nutrition. I tasted it, it was so delicious.
Next, I was tried to eat prawnt+ filles streak, they called it grand meal of ocean and land.There has cauliflower, maize and carota with my grand meal of ocean and land, looks great, I can not wait, I want to tasted it. First, I tried the beefstreak, it was not too hardened, that is good tasty, the prawnt was better than streak, it has sauce on it
The envirenment in there was good. When I came into Round Table, I saw a trangle piano, when I sat down, waiter took each person a flip, it make costomer felt emotional appearl. I also saw a woman with a foreigner went to there to eat, and there are many pair of lovers ate in there, so if you fall in love, that is a good place to eat. The cost was fifty nine each, that can admit.

My physical activity

I like sports, but in my middle school I was not good at sports, because my health was not very well. When I study in GCA, I often do some exercise. It makes I become healthier, so I often do some sports in my free time.
My favorite sport is ice skating, I usually go ice skating with my friends. On holiday, my friends and I went to Olympic sports center and goes ice skating. That afternoon, in the skating rink, it did not have people to play, but we saw a coach was teaching his student, that student is a boy about five years old, I looked I was surprised, he is younger than me a lot, but he is play better than me a lot. We went inside of skating rink. At first, I could not to adapt, but when I slide first round, I can suit for this ice and the skating shoes. I was afraid about maybe I could fall down because I knew they also can play ice skating very well. We looked around, there was not have people, we thought we can play well. In that day, we have a lot of fun, we did not see each of us fall down and we also do exercise a lot.
Everyone has different ways to spend time on holiday or weekend. On January 27th, my family and I went to Zijing Mountain in the afternoon. There did not have a lot of people. I thought the weather was very cool, so I can go climbing to make I body warmer. I breathe fresh air and made I felt relaxed. In the beginning, I was very enjoy for climbing mountain, but after I felt a little bit tired, my father encouraged me, and I can keep going. In the mouton road, we can enjoy beautiful scenery around us. Climbing mountain, I learned a lot, it can help me to build up my endurance and it's helpful to me in my studies. I also can get close to nature, when I reach the top of the mountain I can enjoy the scenery of the city that we live in.
I also like play badminton; I always play badminton with my parents about once a week. This afternoon, I played badminton with my mother and my cousin in the yard. Although we did not go to Olympic sports center, but we also have a lot of fun. We decided to have a match, first, I VS my cousin, I won this game easily, because I am good at playing badminton, but my cousin did not like play it, so I am very happy. Next, I VS my mother, my mother play badminton wonderful! I always lost, I felt disheartened and I did not have energy to keep going, but my mother encouraged me. Although I keep going to finish my competition, I did not win this competition, because I met a good opponent.
Doing sports activities are not only good for health, but also have a lot of fun, so let me do some exercise.

Volunteer work

As volunteer club, I also did some volunteer work in society. Because of volunteer club, I like to help others. This also is a different point between Chinese school and Western school. In the life time, we must do some volunteer work. Do some volunteer work not only helping others but also can give us new experience and learned new skill. In these two terms I worked in two groups, one is volunteer for GCA Drama Show The Taming of The Shrew and watched the play, another is helped my mother unit to tape words.
In the end of this year, GCA had played a Drama Show called The Taming of The Shrew. Although I am not play in this play, but I did some useful things in this play show. Before the show played one month, I helped them to prepared stage properties. That Saturday many of our classmates came to school art room helped. I also checked the show tickets before the GCA Drama Show the Taming of The Shrew begin. That day, I came to there very early and took scissor and waited for Miss Chan said it is time for open the doors. I saw many GCA students came watched, so I was very busy to cut the tickets. I also went inside watched the play. I saw some stage properties are we made in that day, I was very happy about saw that. I try my best to help this play.
During this winter holiday, I finished my volunteer work in my mother’s unit. One day, I asked my mother what I can do in her unit. My mother answered just at the right time, she wrote a play of this year, I can help her tape it. I was replied, tomorrow, I came to my mother’s office. I saw many of my mother’s colleague, they looks very busy maybe they were writing their year plan. I was sit in front of computer; my mother gave her year plan. Over twenty minutes, I finished taped. At this time, my mother came into and asked me do you have time to help my colleague tape? I also replied. Next, I help them to tape theirs year plan. I think this work not only can help them to finish their work, but also can make my tape speed go faster. In May, we have provincial exam, in provincial exam, we can not write, we only could use computer to tape. So, I think this is a good time to help to help me to practice my tape skill. In that three days I worked in my mother’s unit for eight hours and my mother’s colleagues thank for me to help them, they hope I often come to there.
From my volunteer work, I learned a lot about taping and how to communicate with others, I also knew we must try best and pay our effort, that I can do good job and make overtone happy. I love my volunteer work.

GCA club life

This is first year that we study in GCA, about GCA we had find out many different things between Chinese school and Western school. The very important thing is in Western school that has many different clubs, such as badminton, volunteer, drama and so on. In the beginning, we did not realize those clubs, but through grade 11 and grade 12 students introduced, I understood that is very important to be as fully engaged in my high school life. In abroad universities and colleges also has many different clubs.
Although GCA has many different clubs makes me see things in a blur, there has a very meaningful club I want to join, this is volunteer clubs, also this club is recommend by grade 11 and grade 12 students. This year about half of grade 10 GCA students joined this clubs. Volunteer clubs was divided by three groups, are charity work, help blind people and help pets. I joined charity work group, if you joined this group you must joined Nanjing charity society, so I am a member of Nanjing charity society, I have a card for Nanjing charity society.
During this process I gained a lot from volunteer club. There are some benefits for join this club. First, we have a lot of fun while helping other. In the Saturday, I taught many poor primary school students with my friends we played games together; also we taught knowledge for them. Next, I got new experiences; I never did that in my middle school, which is only having in GCA. Finally, I learned effective communicating skill. I recognized many students from other class, also I recognized lovely children and we became friend and we have a lot of fun with each other.
This club let me knot me know help other can make me happy and joyful. Every time I saw that children smile on theirs face, my hearts also feel warm. Volunteer club become more and stronger, so there has more people to join us to help helpless people. It is not only helping others but also can give us new experience.
In volunteer club, we not only taught primary school students, but also we joined a big charity show. In a Saturday morning, our entire group member came to Shanxi to help this charity show and donation money. We wore red cloth and red hat took a big donate box, ask pedestrian. That day we donated a lot of money that we could not count, also it make me know a lot. I saw many children asked their parents to donate, but I also heard many people said “no” to us, that are different between people and people.
This half year, I still work in volunteer club and prepared help more and more people and let people and people to join us do some meaningful things.

The Westuren Restaurant----Tacos

On the twentieth of December, most of our classmates went Tacos on the Zhujiang Road to have dinner with the grade 12 students.
Tacos is Mexico restaurant. I had been there with my mother. This time, I ate dinner with my so many classmates, which were my first time ate dinner with my classmate.
I came to Tacos at 5:30, everybody almost has arrived there. When I walked in to Tacos I saw my friends Ada, Cherry and Helen, I sat with them..Then we took the menu and ordered we ate. I ordered Rice with Baked chicken and Cheese and a cup of Ice Coffee, because there has Taco’s symbol in there, it means this is feature in Tacos.
There were so many students in there, so it looks messy, we did not have enough tableware and even my food sent to another table, so I waited for a long time,
I ate those food and think it taste so-so, but I like this restaurant because I like there environment and we had good memory in there.

Nanjing University ART EXHIBITION

Yesterday, our class went to the Institute of sculpture Art of Nanjing University. We saw lots of sculptures. There are two kinds of art being shown. Most are Chinese famous people another kind is about joy of life. It all by famous artist Wu Weishan, except one sculpture. For this one his teacher Xing Bingming and Wu Weishan worked together. Most artworks are contemporary. It was contemporary.
In the institute of Nanjing, I saw lost of sculptures. It makes my eyes confused; However, I was intested in a sculpture that I first saw. It is a sculpture called "Lao Zi"
Lao Zi was made in about 2002 by WuWeishan, The artist uses mud to make this, and then his assistant based on this to use copper make this. Lao Zi is one of person in Chinese history. He is very famous people. It is about 3m high, but the strange thing that was in middle of the artwork is empty. Inside of that are curved many words that he wrote about Taoism. One of LaoZi's hands paints at the sky, another points at the ground, looks quiet.
Lao Zi makes we feel quiet. He closed his eyes. He closed his eyes one of his hands point at sky, another points at ground. It makes me think about what he wrote about Taoism. The main I idea is theory that man is an integral part of nature First, I saw this artwork, I was thinking about why was the middle of the artwork are empty, what is it inside? I came into the inside. That was carved many Chinese old words. The artwork looks thinking about something, it remind me think about an artwork is Thinker, it made by Rodin. They all think about something but one is Chinese old man, another is western young man.
The artist intention is hope people like Lao Zi erudite inward and full of learning.
I like the artwork "Lao Zi”, becanse I think it is different from other. Other artworks have a person sitting or standing there, and are not special, but this artwork is not commonly. This artwork full of lots of deep ideas and makes people think something about old China. It makes me understand a lot about hoe to do. To be human must kind hearted, that is human's realm and erudite inward and full of learning.