The Taming of the Shrew

On December 19th, after school, I didn’t go home. I had dinner with my classmates. That was because GCA’s Grammar Club would have a grammar performance. The grammar was called The Taming of the Shrew, it was writen by Shakspear. All of us were very looked forward to it.
At about 7 pm. the grammar began. The students in Grade 12, Cherry and Fan are the main roles. Their acts were very lively. Sometimes they made us laugh, sometimes they made us felt sad. All the spectators watched carefully and nobody felt bored about it.
My friends and I went to the backstage to see the actors. When we went there, Cherry was dressing up. She was so beautiful, she wore a long, white dress like a princess. I was envious of her, not only because she was dressed up beautiful, but also she could act in front of so many people. She was a brave girl. She was my idol now.
In my thought Fan was a kind of withdrawn, but after that grammar I changed my mind. He was completely engrossed in the performance. I was too happy to watch such a wonderful grammar performance.
All the actors took a long time to remember their monologue and acted very lively. I was proud of the members of GCA’s Grammar Club.

Forever 10-A

Sports

Although it sounds a little bit strange but I am really good at sit-ups. It is a very health activity, also it is an activity which can make feel tired very quickly.
In my middle school I started to practice it because we need to do it when we zhong kao, so I practice it for a long time. At first I really hate it, I thought it was a boring and useless activity but soon I change my mind.. On the PE class when teacher asked us to do the sit-ups I could do it much better than other girls, I felt very happy. Then I found I started to like this kind of activity. After zhong kao we don’t have to do it any more but I still keep doing it. I keep doing it for two years and I found my loins became thinner. So I think it is really a healthy sport for everyone.
Besides sit-ups I also like rope skipping. This is an exercise very popular in China. I can still remember I learned it in the kindergarten. I keep doing it in my whole primary time so I didn’t practice it a lot in my middle school. I can do it very well, I always do the most in my middle school. I don’t like jogging so if I want to do some exercise in my spare time I always do rope skipping. It is a kind of aerobics so this activity is very health for our body. It can also make me taller and thinner.
I like dancing a lot. I learned how to dance since 5 years old. I really like dance because I think it is very interesting and dancers are always very beautiful on the stage. During the time I learned dance I learned a lot besides dance. I learned what is insists; what is never give up; and what is team work. Although I hurt myself (once I even made my arm broken when I tried to do a difficult act); felt very tired and hopeless when I learned dance but luckily I have done it. I have known a lot of new friends during I learned dance. Dance has already become a way of communicate for me. Now I am a member of dancing club I danced in many public meetings such as art festival and so on. I really love dancing.
I don’t like riding a bicycle. Like all the others it is very hard for me to learn how to ride bike. I fall down from the bike ; rushed on to the wall ; broke the bike when I learned it. After I learned how to ride a bike I was so excited. I go out with my classmates and friends by bike at the weekends. But ride to school is terrible for me, my schoolbag is too heavy, when I ride a bike, I felt very tired, but I have no choice, I must say that ride a bike can make my life become easier.

Volunteer

It was a Saturday morning we went to school to help Ms. Hardly to do some volunteer work..
When I went there I couldn’t see where Ms. Hardly was. I was supposed that Ms. Hardly will wait for us at the gate of school but she wasn’t there. I called Ms. Hardly, she told me that she was still working in the GCA building because the students there hadn’t finished the painting work so they would came here a few minutes later. After two or three minutes they came to the Art class room and Ms. Hardly told us about our work.. First we had to prepare for the happy trash stuff for the new students will come to the GCA in the second half of 2009. During we prepared for the happy trash we talked about the true feelings that we had when we do the happy trash.. We told her it was really a tired, confused and terrible time. All of us felt very tired and didn’t want to do it again, she was really surprised about our true feelings because when she talked to students all the students told her it was a real interesting and creative work. When we prepare the happy trash we had some different ideas, some of us thought that we can do it by the way we like because we don’t need to do it next year, some of us thought we should do it carefully because we shouldn’t caused troubles to the new students we have already know it, so half of our work were really well planned. After we completed the happy stuff Ms. Hardly asked us to cut the paper to prepare for the next stuff we had in next class. At first Ms. Hardly told us about how to cut paper quickly and nice, we thought it won’t be a difficult work for us but we changed our mind when we know how many papers we had to cut. We had to cut over maybe five hundred papers with only four persons. It was a really hard work, all of us do it without organized so we didn’t help each other and do it very slowly at the beginning. After ten minutes we decided to organize it, and then the working became easier. After we cut all the papers up we put them in different colors, Ms Hardly was surprised about our speed so we had a ten minutes relax before we finished our volunteer work.
Now I am the leader of one of the volunteer club, every Saturday I went to Bei An Men community to teacher Grade 3 or 5 students. Now we are friends, they told us many interesting things happened of their schools. I will keep doing it.
Volunteer work lets me learn many things, during it I let myself think how to do the things better than before, also it improve my abilities.

Academic showcase

English 10:Journal

Social Studies 10:Quiz

Math 10:Quiz

Art 10: Book

PE 10: PE lesson

Science 10:Homework

Planning 10: Pregnants(video)

Mandarin 10: Composition

Chinese flowering crab apple exhibition

Today is Labor’s Day, my classmates and I went to MO Chou Lake this morning to watch Chinese flowering crab apple exhibition. We arrived there at 11 am. It was too hot. When everybody came, we went into the park. I saw a fountain with rockery stands of the middle of the park, many children played water and someone took photos there. It gave me a cool feeling. We walked along, on the way we joked each other and enjoyed ourselves.
Then we arrived the exhibition place. All of my classmates took photos at the ingress of the exhibition, we spent a lot of time on it. After we went into it, we felt a bit upset, because all the flowers were fallen off, we couldn’t see any thing there just trees and grass, however the only thing made us feel happy was the degree wasn’t very high because of the trees. We sat there and chatted with each other.
It was a happy exhibition, we came into contact with the nature, found fun from the nature, and we enjoyed the sunshine and fresh air. We could learn many things out off class. Although the weather was hot, we had a happy and colorful day.

My model life

April 27th is a special day for me. It was a fashion show in GCA after 6:00 pm. That was my model life though just 2 hours.
One day at Art class, Ms. Hardly told us we had a big project——designed clothes for fashion show. Each group had 4 people. My group designed many clothes of 3 kinds. All of them were beautiful, but at the end we decided to make one prom clothes. I became the model of my group. My group’s clothes was made by ourselves, not prefect but I think it was good.
In Friday afternoon the models went to NFLS courtyard to practise how to walk on the stage. It was too hard for us if we wanted to do it well, but all of us practised very carefully, we wanted do it well.
On Monday after school was about 3 pm. most of the students went out and had fun. I stay at school, Selina dressed up for me, it spent us a lot of time. I love my clothes. The fashion show began at 6:30 pm at NFLS courtyard on time, I was so nervous that I didn’t know how to walk. “Welcome Rita.” When MC said that, I knew it was my turn. I calmed down and talked to the stage. I tried my best to do all the poses and walk well. I could hear my classmates called my name, I was so proud of myself at that moment. I knew I was succeed.
Though as a model was very fashion and famous on the stage, but by this activity I knew as a famous model was not easy and very tired, it must took many times to practise again and again.

A meal with friends

My friends and I go to a restaurant called “TAIRYO’S TEPPANYAKI” to have a meal. That is a good place to eat sushi in my thought. The surrounding there is good and quiet.
We arrive there after visiting the art museum. It is about 4 pm. and all of us are not very hungry. So we just eat a little. At the beginning we chat with each other about our classmates, we wait for some more classmates. When everyone arrives, we start to choose dishes from a menu. We can’t eat many things at that time, so we decide to eat sushi, fry rice and noodles.
There are many kinds of sushi there, fish, vegetables, fruits and so on. All of them have their own special tastes. We order different tastes sushi, and then we can eat different taste at the same time. But the foods are very expensive, sushi are always between 30 Yuan and 50 Yuan. Maybe the foods in western restaurants are expensive for us. We wait the foods and take photos happily.
We wait for a long time, we find the colors of sushi are very beautiful. The green one is cucumber, the red one is carrot, the yellow one is radish…… We are attracted of them, we talk about their different tastes and appraise which is the best which is the worst. Soon all of the sushi is eaten by us.
Though it isn’t a bad meal, but actually I don’t want to go western restaurants use our own money any more. It is very expensive for us and spends our times.

Art museum

In March 14, 2009 some of my classmates and I go to Jiangsu provincial art museum. All of us are very happy because it is Saturday, we don’t have to go to school. We meet at the gate of the art museum. At about 2 pm. we go into the museum.
Jiangsu provincial art museum has a history of a very long time, it was built in 19356, it is the first modern country art museum in 20 century of China. Jiangsu provincial art museum is a public welfare organization, it is good for collecting, researching, exhibiting and so on. The tickets are free, but people must keep quiet.
We go into the museum, I don’t know why the first and the second floor of the museum are closed, so we up stairs to the third floor. When I go into the third floor, I find the third floor shows cattles, because in China 2009 is a cattle’s year. There are many pieces of glasses between us and the artworks to protect them. All the cattles are different. Some are standing, some are lying, some are chatting with each other…… The colors of the cattles are different, too. We are attracted by these artworks. We talk about them and try to guess what are they doing. We have many interesting ideas. We think some of them are children and their parents, some of them are sweethearts, some of them are friends, some of them are enemies……
We can’ wait taking photos and enjoy ourselves, at the same time we study many things what we can’t learn from school.

Volunteer work

Before I came to GCA, I just know that study is the most important for students, but now I know do volunteer work is important, too. Children are the future of our country. We do volunteer not only good for society, but also can cultivate our ability. It is as important as study for students. Only study well is OK when we are a student, when we grow up, to be a member of society, we must do some valuable things.
At the beginning, I don’t know how to do volunteer. The leader of volunteer work Kate in Grade 11 told me: “Volunteer is just to do the things what we need to do.” I don’t understand, but now I know the meaning. January 27, 2009, I went to a pet hospital. At there I did the things what I should do.
The smell of there was not very good, so I felt bad at first. I walked into there and many dogs run to me, I was a little afraid at the beginning. I sat on the chair, a little dog came, it stood and shacked its short tail, it was so cute, I hugged it. After a short time, the little dog slept comfortable on my legs. I looked at it, maybe it was dreaming, a beautiful dream. Time for lunch, dogs ate together. During they ate lunch they still didn’t forget to play with each other. But I know that the dogs lived there did not have their masters, have no home, and most of them have some problems with their bodies. These dogs need human care. After lunch, dogs started to sleep, but I heard a bark from a little cage. There was a little dog in pink clothes, it was too poor, it opened its big eyes and looked at me. The worker told me this dog had some problem of its left leg, it can’t run, even can’t walk very well, so it just can stay in cage. I looked at it, I think it very wanted to get out, so I hugged it on my legs. It was very obedient and didn’t move. There are many animals are in trouble on the world, we need to try our best to help them and care them. Animals are our best friends.
Charity, a symbol of love. Volunteer club did the volunteer for the charity. It was fresh for me. we went to Xin Jiekou Square, we were divided into several groups, each group has a leader, the leader hold a box for raise money, and the members of the group had duty was to let pedestrians donate money for the charity. Girls were shy and nobody talked at the beginning, so for a long time, my group haven’t got any money. The leader worried and he let us thought about those poor children, if we do nothing, they will have no chance to school. It was very useful, everyone of my group started to speak. The money in the box was becoming more and more, we were proud of ourselves.
Volunteer is a good chance for me to improve my habit and courage. I deeply feel the advantage. I will keep doing volunteer work and no matter I will never give up. I believe myself I can do it.

Dancing Club

I like dancing since I was a little child, but at that time, I fractured when I was 6-yuar-old. I had to give up dancing. But when I was in primary school I became a member of Dancing Team. Now I’m a high school student in GCA, There are many different kinds of clubs, I decided to joined the Dancing Club at the first time. I was so excited that I can learn dancing again.
First I need to introduce our teachers. The leader of the Dancing Club is Only in Grand 11, he teaches Breaking, Mona teaches Girls Hiphop, Seven and Elva teach New Jazz. We decided to let students to teach us at the beginning because we thought it was easier to exchange than unfamiliar teachers. The club starts from 1pm. to 3pm. each Saturday.
Our first perform is on October, 2008. NFLS hold a Sports Meeting and we need to perform after the first half of the soccer game. At that time we had learned dancing for a very short time. Only told us we didn’t have enough time to practice, so we had to go to school to practice on National Day for the whole day. Other students can have a rest on National Day, but we can’t. It was so sad for us, but nobody gave up. Mona spent the whole day to teach us basic moves. Before we went she tested everyone, if we passed we can go home. In the evening, she sent e-mails to us, she let us practice basic moves at home on our own .It was really hard to remember all the moves in such a short time, so it spent me a lot of time to practice, that evening I didn’t do anything just dance. The second day after lunch we needed to practice and couldn’t have a rest. After school we still stay at school for 2 more hours until 7 o’clock. After that all of us are very

tired and hungry, I finished dinner and my homework as soon as possible. The extra time I practice again. Because of a long time to practice, my knee hurt, but I didn’t give up. At the last day of the performance, that was a busy 3 hours, all the members of Dancing Club practiced again and again, none of us wanted to make mistakes at the performance. At the Sporting Meeting we felt a bit nervous at the beginning. All of us tried our best and we did a good job at the end. I was so excited and my classmates said we were great.
The following days we dance on Saturday as usual, during a time, the teacher of Girls Hiphop Mona didn’t come, so then Elva taught us New Jazz. There are many differences between Hip pop and Jazz. Hip pop is powerful than Jazz. So we spent a long time to find the feeling of Jazz.

Now most of us can do basic moves well, but we still need more practice.
I think dancing is a kind of sports, it can make me slimmer and healthier than before. I don’t have time to exercise and it is a good way to me. I will keep dancing, not only it is my hobby, but also it is good for my health.

Physical activity

There are many different kinds of sports, sports can make us keep health. I have a habit that to do exercise at least once a week. Now I am good at many sports, it has become a way for me to have a rest. It is better than watching TV and playing computer games in my thought.
In summer I like swimming. Summer is very hot in Nanjing, I don’t like this weather, hot makes me feel very fidgety, I can’t calm down myself to do my homework very carefully. It must be a very suitable reason for me to go swimming. I always go to the swimming pool with my mother. My mother said to me that swim can make me slimmer and healthier, so I am very glad to swim. Jump into the swimming pool, that is a fantastic feeling. It is cool in water, swim like a fish, dance in water. What a wonderful thing! I always match with my mother, usually I faster than her. I am so proud of this, it makes me swim better and better.
But now it is in winter. I don’t want to swim in cold water in such a cold winter. I find a sport what I like is playing badminton. Every weekend, sometimes on Saturday, I like to play badminton with one of my friends. Some of my classmates are very good at this game and I often try to compete with them to improve my skill. Sometimes I find a partner to play with me or let her help me to improve, it is very useful for me. I play better than before. Badminton requires great strength in the arms and legs as well as strong concentration on the game. During the holiday, I went to play badminton again. That evening after dinner, my friend told me her brother will come. Her brother is a very tall boy, he is 1.86 meters tall and he is 20 years old. Usually we play badminton with four people at the same time, my friend is always my partner, our convenience is very good. Her brother said: “I want to be the partner of Rita.” I agree. He let me stand behind him. The game started, he stood there like a tall mountain, I can’t see anything. His arms are very long, too. So during the whole game, just can saw him run here and there, left and right, I stood there and do nothing. After the game, my friend’s brother was very tired, he drank and then asked me: “Are you happy?" I smiled and said: “Just so so.” “Why? My sister tells me you like playing badminton and you do well.” “That’s true, but…… well I know you are good at playing basketball, but your badminton is good, too.” I said. He laughed: “Absolutely I’m good at all of the sports” Then I told him why I don’t very happy. He was very sorry and he said: “Maybe we need to change the next time.”
Sports can bring me happiness, I will continue to do exercise to make me stronger, taller and healthier.