Participate in a Service Activity organized by a GCA teacher

Go to East BeiJing Road primary school
About one month ago, Ms bartell conducted us to go to East BeiJing Road primary school to help some Grade 5 students to study English.
Before we went there, we spent some time to prepare the “lessons” which we would teach them. Before this time, I think for the job of a teacher, that could be quite easy. In my mind they just need to teach the students in their class, and dispose the homework after the lessons. Instead the fact was in order to make the UTO card. We nearly spent the whole class, and we also need to plan the teaching schedule… things were much more intractable than what I have thought.

For teaching a student, I felt the process was very pleasant. Firstly we read the dialogue together, and change to read again. Then I tested them! I said: “ if you could recite it, I would give you a special sticker, as a reward.” he smiled and have a strenuous foray. Luckily he succeed. I thought: “ for teaching the younger teengaers, one of the effective teaching is to offer the reward.”

Later I also taught him some simple antonyms, and the synonyms whichcome from the text book… after the teaching part was over, Genesis and I organized them to played “UTO” together, but the rule was: “ only english is acceptable.” Most of the kids were quite curious, and excited. Although English is still a obstacle for them, they didn’t give up a have a maximum foray…

This was my first time to become a teacher, I felt quite honorable, maybe it crystallized my future job…

Act in a Performance

Act in a Performance

During the New year, on the january1st, we held
a performance at the third floor of the cafeteria, the performance was called “ Snow White”. At that time, I remembered I hid behind the stage and waited for the dub the voice for the Hunter, my heart kept palpitating, and erstwhile experience seemed blur my eyes…

One day, in class Abby announced a surprising news! She said: “through the class meeting, we decided we would have the performance in New Year’s celebration! I chose our performance was “ Snow White”! I felt very ambivalent, in one way I wanted to have a try, I want to have more chance to train my timid personality. However I also felt extremely frightened, I really didn’t have that courage to act in public. As the time elapsed, I felt more paradoxical. Finally I asked Abby: “ Can I dub the voice for someone.” She agreed and be willing to help me….
After the whole actors, actresses were chosen, we began to rehearse. For the simulated one, I didn’t feel nervous anyall. When I read the lyrics in class, nothing bad happened. Finally we joined the performance contest, if we won, we would perform in the New Year’s celebration, in my mind that was such a wondrous thing!

During the contest, I became very intimidated and nervous. Especially when I saw the judgers, my heart nearly bounced out of the mouth. I shuddered and adjusted my voice… “It’s your turn, John!” Abby whispered to me. I wanted to say something, accidently I became dumb and kept saying gibberish…things were so deplorable. I tried for many times and stammered for a while, finally I at last spoke out loud, and faced to judgers…after the contest, I felt quite guilty, I afraid my bad performance could let our class be winnowed out of the good performance. Luckily we won! I was shocked and didn’t speak any thing for a long time…

Now it time for our class to have the performance in New Year’s celebration. I would dub for Genesis. Before the show, I tried to calm down. Shortly after I began with the lines “ you are the most beautiful woman of all!” at first I felt still nervous, however as the performance goes on, I felt more and more confident, I didn’t worry things
Any more, finally I finished it and felt a sense of accomplishment.

Through this activity I found a chinese motto is totally right it called “ one minute on stage, ten years for preparing.” I felt if we wanted to be successful in our life, the prerequisite is we must try and keep practising on it.

Community Involvement

Doing the volunteer work
In this half semester, I mainly worked as a volunteer in community, teachers’ office, and in fashion show
In Ms baretell’s office, I did many kinds of the works, some works need people have the distinct thinking ability. Some need people to have the coherent organization. Some works were just quite trivial like clearing the office, carry the buckets…in teachers’ office things are always quite hectict. Sometimes they needed some students to help them to count the points, for the quizs which we have taken. Sometimes teachers need some students to do the computer research for the planning vocabuary. In some case they also need the students to help them organize the drawer.

I remembered when my first time to go there, I felt so exhausted, my mind was so crazy. I even couldn’t wink, because if I did it I could sleep. At that time time I applied to do some count project, like calculating the numbers, counting the the points. Ms Bartell stared at me and checked my sight for a while. She smiled, and in order to let me awaken, she let me to transport the buckets, and cut some picture from the poster. At the meanwhile some other students were doing what I wanted to do. Things like this last for few weeks. I felt like it was similar to a person to apply a job, if he/she didn’t show the good attitude to the company, and leave a bad impression to it, probably that applicant will be failed.

One day, finally I began to do somethings different. I began to do some more “official” work. Translating , for example. My goal was to translate chinese ancient folks poems “ SAN ZIJING” in English, that was the first challenging task I had met. In fact when I first saw it , I even didn’t understand it in chinese let alone translating into English . I found for doing these kinds of jobs require coherent linguistic organization, and the sense for the liberal art. Viscerally I like these kind of the works, because I think it not only help me to improve my English, but also to earn the volunteer times. As the time goes on there is a vehement feeling smouldered in my heart, my organization was : “ in GCA no matter where you are, and what do you do, English is the most important things which you to improve.

Sometimes teachers have too much, and distributed it to students randomly. So for us in order to finish it on time, colaborative spirit is extremely important. I found students could change their jobs with on another to do what they good at. In GCA, students have their own advantages in different aspects. For example, If I worked with a student who is good at modern technology, and at the meantime I was doing it, so I would probably exchange mine with him, to have the higher working efficiency. For the individual if they want to be successful, they should try to choose what they good at, however if people did something they didn’t like, that is still beneficial for them. They could learn a new skill from their weakness, and be familiar with it. Later they could reverse it as their new skill.

Through the working in the teacher office, I found although that was quite meaningful, it not only help teacher to alleviate their burden, but also let me to study some important lessons. For example, the importance to collaborate with others, to do what you are good at, and the salutary experience to deal with something which you do not like…

Fashion Show (go to see a performance)

Go to a performance

In GCA there is a unwritten tradition, that is the annual fashion show! In students’mind that could be the sleepless night, singers sang the popular songs, dangers flailed their bodys, models walked alone the stages and be punctuated by the applause… that is really a crazy night! So on the 27th of April, I decided to watch the performance anew, I choose to watch this because I think it could relax me, that is one of the therapeutic activity. In GCA I usually have much stress, pressure, in some case life is quite strenuous. So I hope the craziness could alleviate it…and make me feel better.

This time things were much more convenient, because in this year, we have the alfresco performance. It was held just beside the chinese library, not far from GCA’s gate. The performance would be held at 6:30 pm, so about 5 minutes earlier Victor and i have been there.
In this fsahion show I played a double roles, one was audience, the other was the designer! Exactly in this performance, I designed the costume for the Mr burtler. In some degree I felt quite nervous, my heart palpitated during the show. I didn’t know what terrible things could happen, because our group just made the clothes by ourselves without using any modern technology. As a result the texture made people feel quite rought… However, things were better than what I thought. During the show Mr burtler looked like a clown, and made many funny stances etc. finally it amused many people. I felt very exciting, because it was my first time to decided that “greatful” artwork!

However in general, I felt the fashion show was not as wonderful as last year’s. Relatively this time, the performance was just last for 40 minutes, I felt this time the models seemed less enthusiastic, some even looked so cold…

Through the fashion, I felt the connection between the real life and art is more more and more inextricable. While I have the good material success in some case the art culture is more important. It can relax me when I have the trouble, and sometimes when I had the work, It promotes more inspiration from the mind…

GRADE 10 ART

These four photos were taken after Art class, two of them involves teacher's judgement.

GRADE 10 MANDARINE

This is one of my chinese homework.

grade 10 science

This is one of my science quizs

GRADE 10 PE

In my mind this is one of the most gymnastic stance. It was taken during the PE class.

GRADE 10 ENGLISH

ONE OF MY ENGLISH QUIZS, AND HOMEWORK

GRADE 10 PLANNING

Degrassi Junior High quiz

GRADE 10 STUDY AWARD

Information Technology

1: Art and Design

2: Community Involvement/ E,ployability skills

3: Education and Career Planning

4: Academic Showcase

5: Cultural Awareness

6: Personal Health

grade 10 social study

These are two of my best social tests during the midterm exams!

Arts and design

The excursion to the Nanjing museum
On the 7th of the March 15, 2009 in the afternoon, Sam Genesis and I visited the Nanjing museum; it is located at the southern foot of the ravishing Purple Mountain, inside Zhongshan Gate, near Qingxi River. The whole area is 33482m2. We chose to go there because that is a comprehensive museum of art and history; from it we can know more exact information of the change of culture, art, technology, history of my country.

The whole museum is very big and commodious, and it is separated by two floors with several parts, like the ancient Chinese jade exhibition, Chinese ancient gold and silver wares hall, ancient Chinese lacquer hall, Chinese brocade and embroidery hall, folk art, ancient Chinese porcelain room, and the ancient Chinese painting hall. Firstly we visited modern art sculpture, at the entrance of gate; I saw some pair of latest artifacts, like the sculpture of the cattle, which were made of pines. Manger told me use the pine as the materials can make it endure in air for a longer time. Furthermore this year is the year of cattle. In Chinese tradition, cattle are the emblem of the prosperity, power, and luck. They think make the sculpture of cattle could be very prevalent in the year of cattle. Through the whole art work, I thought that is an excellent work, through the texture, it looks very smooth, and exudes the solemn temperament of cattle. From the details of it, that is quite vivid, and picturesque。 At that time few of us could resist to temptation to touch it. In the whole modern exhibition, nearly all the statues were about cattle, but they represented the different kind of work, some were made into lamp, some were made into made into decoration, some are used for storing the food. Suffice to say, cattle has become a “hotshot” in people’ mind.

Later we visited the ancient artwork, most of them made of jade, gold, sliver, jewel. But one truly attracted me was a pair of bell set. It was made in warring states period, about two thousand ago, it was made of copper. Inevitably, that is used for making the music. I highly appreciated it not because its rare materials, instead I was impressed by its ways for using. Before I read the guide book, I even can’t imagine copper could use for making the music, each bell has the different size, structure。When people knock them each of them they will emit the specific tone, voice. When you knocked then consecutively in size order, a magic music will impress your heart! I like this pair of bell set best, meanwhile I got the vicarious thrill because I thought how intelligent，great our ancestors were! They used the mediocre material but made an immortal art work! Then we also saw some other preeminent work like: Double-fish-shaped vase in three colors, sliver-threaded jade suit, gold beast, gold cicada on the jade leaf etc.Through this traveling, I was deeply impressed, and felt the whole art work is the crystal of people’ intelligence, creativity. I thought if all of us think more, create more, probably centuries later the world will be ripple with the Edison.

culture awareness

The taste of French food
On the seventh of February at noon, Sam Genesis and I go to a French restaurant to have lunch. After the thorough comparison of the price, location, taste etc. finally we decided to go there, exactly except the gooses’ lung other kinds of food should prone to our flavor. The restaurant is christened “French dishes” it is located on the 51TH HAN KOU ROAD.
For my first sight of it, the commodious environment, luxurious service, fragrant atmosphere which I have imagined vanished right away. Exactly it is quite small, but the environment, service is decent. The small restaurant has two parts for entertaining the customers, one could be seen directly from the outside, and the other is hid beside the counter. Surprisingly, more foreigners were willing to have meal at “French dishes”, self-evidently my intuition told me the food should be quite delectable and tasted memorably. After glanced e menu, I ordered a bowel of leek-potato soup, a share of fresh bolognaise noodles, and the roasted apple with cinnamon. I ordered them because I found these foods are rather distinctive, and bristle with the mystery, in one way, I like it because I have not heard it before. For the Sam and Genesis they preferred like the spicy and hot kind, before the eating, we looked around the environment carefully and curiously. We found the factors for restaurant to attract the consumers are not merely how big it is. More importantly, people have their own preference for it taste, the attraction of the environment, and whether it has a balmy environment for eating. In this restaurant, manager seems more astute, for instance he disposes the magazines, the latest newspaper, novel, and create a melodious music for people who are waiting for food, in this way, it is easily for people to kill the time, and mentally they have more inclination to have meal at the same restaurant again. During the waiting, I encountered a foreign couple, they looked vey convivial, by etiquette I greeted to them, they beamed at me and we began to chat with one another. Through the talking I knew the diet difference between China and their country Britain. For example in their country people used to use fork and small knife for eating. During meal if you make a cross by fork and knife on the plate, it means you have finished it, and during the meal people eat quietly, they don’t like make the noise by gobbling the food, or using the tools.
About 15 minutes later, we began to eat food! Inevitably the cuisine of the leek- potato soup is totally different than Chinese. For it ingredients, it added more cheese, butter, mashed potato and less salt, oil. The soup let me recall the original taste of the potato, leek. Although the taste is not totally cater to my flavor, but it is acceptable and smelled fragrantly. Later I ate the fresh bolognaise noodles; this food is originated from the Italy. The whole ingredients were made up of pepper sauce, meat seasoning, sugar, little salt, leeks, noodles etc. before the eating just from the optic and smelling sense, it was attractive enough to make you drool over it. The noodles were more al dente which let people to relish the eating more relaxedly and have the better emotion. The final dessert was the roasted apple with cinnamon. That was my first time to know except eating for fruit, apple also can make a meal. After the cutting it rivulet of juice slowly flow down. That looked so cute; I even didn’t want to eat it! However in general I found this food should have some upswing, because it had excessive oil, which is totally detrimental for our health. While people enjoy the food, it aims to make our physical body worse…
In general I think eating the meal at this restaurant is a good choice, relatively speaking the food is cheaper, for most of the food. They are still very healthy and palatable.

Education Career Planning

Clubs
Last term, I mainly joined two clubs, one is football club, the other is the volunteer club, I chose these club, because I like sports, doing more exercises can help me push the physical limit, and make me more masculine, more vigorous, secondly because of my particular verity, I think in the big society, everyone should have their obligation, to help people who is in need. All the people have own social value, for me doing more beneficent things can make me get more consolation in astral layer that is the reason why I joined it.

Through my opinion I think, football club is a unique sports club in GCA, because in any matches, it need all the people’ cooperation, body discussion, and the collaborative spirits, instead of the personal physical energy, skills. This factor just show its difference, in football club, the whole activities was separated into two parts, firstly part one is the collective training, practice, second part is the simulated match. Our club president MR Pinney has told us: “a good team should possess not only the empirical practice, but also the pragmatic skills!” in the part one we practiced the rudimentary skills, like heading the ball, passing the ball, how to trap the ball, and learn some new rules with the training like offside, penalty-kick, nutmeg…through these practice, studying the rules it reinforced our impression of the football. In the second part, thing seemed be more fierce. We will have the match, that is called pragmatic match, during the match, firstly we must adhere to these rules, secondly, we tried to pass our opponents, and shot the goal, that is just the match, but I studied and improved many things, for instance because I am a forward, I need to run more, at first I can’t endure it because I felt so tried, suffocating, but as the time went on, my physical stamina is much more better than before, because of the running, it let me be more dexterous, flexible in my life. Secondly through the match, we gradually realize the importance of cooperating with teammates, in football game, nobody has the constant partner, things change rapidly during the match, when we just joined the club, during the match, and we just knew we should to shot the ball, without any organized plan, exactly that was the individual game, some people even struggled the ball with their teammates. The game was absolutely in chaos, we lost the matches… but after several match, we gradually realized something intangible; people began to be “gentle”. They began to know that is not merely the personal game. Through the long-term training, our coordination is more and more “telepathic”. I even can pass the ball to my teammates who beside me without moving the eyes. Our football club has a unique strength, because in this club we have more matches with other schools, like Nanjing international school, that is a intractable adversary, but other sports clubs in GCA seldom have these chances so I think we get more sports experience, and have more chance to communicate with other school to increase the friendship.

In GCA, I think join the football club, can make students more active, more exuberant, and can solidify their antibody to fight for the epidemic, for me it helps me lose weights, and be more confident in PE lessons.

For the volunteer club, people should not think of reward, instead we also need to have the optimistic spirit, sometimes we have to sacrifice our time to help other, through this club, I found the good discussion skills, patience, selflessness, are very important, especially like the discussion skills, because as the volunteer we want to try to help others, if we didn’t elucidate our motivation clearly, people will probably refuse to receive our help. For example during the winter vocation, we go to the sanatorium to visit the elders, most of them are a bit insane, and had the negative mood, for us we need to figure out how to make them more positive, what topic can help them alleviate the spiritual pain. If we talked something wrong, their trouble will be more serious…

In fact the activities in volunteer club is quite elaborate, sometimes we also organize the donation in GCA, and go to rural school to help students study…the only weakness could be the scale exactly, our club’s members are still shorthanded, when we help others the effect look a bit trivial, I think if more people joined it, it must let GCA becomes more harmonious and balmy. Our goal is to let pool people, sanatoriums, and terrible things as less as possible!

Personal Health

Personal health
In 2008, Beijing Olympic games, I was dazzled by American swimming player--------michael phelps, after watching his matches I was always been shocked, in my mind he is a nonesuch player, and during the matches he seemed becomes a dexterous shark which pursue his goals. So from that time I thought:“ does swimming really intrigue so many people?

In this winter vocation, my father accompanied me to go to NANJING MILITARY INSTITUTION RECREATIONAL CENTER to swim. The swimming pool is involved in the big stadium, because that is arcane place plus the spring festival, as a result, few people swam at that place, I felt delirious, because for swimming the less people, the more freedom we would get more freedom.

For my father, he is a veteran for this sport, he nearly swims every day, for him keeping swimming for two hours is just a piece of cake. In fact, during the last summer vocation, I nearly swim every day, but during these semesters because of the arduous school task, I missed many chances to have workout. Perhaps “absence makes the heart grows fonder” when I arrived here I had a sense of nostalgia… when we arrived the dressing room father changed his equipment rapidly as me, after I just took off the sweater, I nearly frozen, I seemed be stuck in stalemate, for me the temperature was so low, I even couldn’t live. “ what a dillydallying person!” he urged me to act quicker, I gripped my teeth to endure the “harsh” circumstance. Just we arrive the edge of swimming poor, fathers did some warm-up, and made a macho pose, then he jumped in water smoothly, I imitated him, for that moment when I just entered in water, I got cramp on my legs, I couldn’t move my body began to be “frozen”. Although I tried to adjust my situation, unluckily the first day of swimming was very gloomy…

Later days things were ameliorated, firstly I acclimatized to the coldness gradually, at least, I can move without much obstacle, I began to swim in breaststroke, for that moment, I felt all of my organs were free, they seemed abandon all their stress, burden... I swam randomly and began to practice my stamina, as the time went on I began to feel more and more exhausted, my extremities were grossly drained, shortly after I even began to pant to breathe. I glanced at my father, at the meanwhile he was still as fervent as before when he just swam. Father told me:“perseverance is my important, if you gave up; all the effort which you have devoted would probably in vain, for a person, when his energy was at the edge of extremities, if he persisted, the endurance will truly be increased…” viscerally, I knew what my father told me is true, at that time because my energy is too limited, at last I couldn’t help but waiving the practice, but my goal is: “ for each day the time for swimming must be longer than it preceding day’s”
For next few days, pain, trines, limitation seemed become numb for me, during this among of days, father taught me a kind of swimming-----backstroke! “ that is the most therapeutic styles” he told me then he lay on the surface of water, flailing the arms, just like the paddle across the water, his leg flapped the water and swam forward. I tried it, but was not successful, sinking was very common for me. “ when you swam, adjust your breath at the meanwhile, keep the balance of your body, don’t be serious” he said. I tried for a few times, at last I can float on water, but the velocity of swim was quite slow, one of the reasons felt was my action was very rigid, not flexible. After about two weeks for “intensive” training, I feel doing a good job in PE lesson is not impregnable any more; ports are not the torment tool which make you feel excruciating, instead it can help you push your limit, make you be agiler, and more rubicund in your life.

Community Involvement

Volunteer experience
About two months ago, thinks to the rendition:” THE TAMING OF THE SHREW”. It needed some people to help Ms Hadley to make extra tools for the performance, like the model pig, a swarm of flowers … viscerally a vehement mind told me:” it needs help.” So I joined this kind of job spontaneously.

At that time, many people also joined the work, our job was quite “simple”, that was painting the wall, at first most of people thought that was so childish. As the working, it was separated into three steps, because the effect of wood’s texture, when people colored the wood directly, the pigment would penetrate inside the wood. So the first task was to make an extra layer on the wood. I took the brushed which adhered the white color, and painted meticulously. Unluckily I still made the mistake, the pigment was so thick, and as a result it would take for a long time to be dry. Secondly it wasted the pigment and affected the quality of the specimen. When Ms Hadley saw it, she told me:“for painting the wall, it still had some prescriptions, for instance the energy of different degrees as we paint the wall, the surface area between brushes and wall, the fluency of painting will affect the work.” “Using the slim side can help you avoid many troubles.” She finally said. At that time my heart had a bit sense, but not very exquisite … after we finished the painting the extra layer, I need to stop for a while, if the surface was still slimy, doing the second step is inaccessible. For the second step, our tasks were more arduous, we need to use the primary color to concoct other pigment which was more luminous, more fascinating ,so proportion of different color was grossly pivotal. If one of us added on color more or less, all of our work which have done would in vain, so the collaborative working, coordination, discussion between people was very monumental, at this time my heart has been palpitated … the last step was to paint the wall seriously. For this task we need to paint two different colors at the same space, dark brown and green which we must make them border with each other, not combination… for me before brushed the wood, I needed to consider: which direction should I paint, what structure of wall looked more picturesque…although that was merely painting the wood. In fact I deeply felt that was a painstaking working, it not only need you painting techniques, but also need your ingenuity of art even the life… during the last step most of us were much more circumspect, even each brush looked so strenuous… For painting the eight pieces of wood, it took us more than two hours.

After the working, we needed to clean the plates, brushes, and the buckets just in this moment I found a trivial thing: after the painting, thinks of the hassle some people escaped secretly.” Truly I also want to leave, the weather was grossly frigid, but I forced myself to stay here, shortly after Ms arrived here and gave rest of us some chocolate for rewards, she proved our working time, and took photos with us, for some people who has escaped, lost the chance…
Through the whole process of working, I seemed learn a lesson, for my future when I wanted to apply some jobs, we must not underestimate any of things. Some things look so negligible, but it involves much more contents than what it looks like probably that is the microcosm of the crucial thing! Furthermore , patience is also very important, although that is merely a piece of chocolate, personally in my mind it told me, when people were doing the common things, which all of us can do, in this case, who is more astute, more patient , who will be the real winner…

Besides the painting, I also helped Ms Bartell to do some extra-curricular work. That was help her check the final test, make the seating list of 10-C and search some attractive information which need to be putted in toilet, for the last two jobs, I was troubled deeply. For making the seating list I was none other than be failed for two times! It looked very simple; just adjust the name in suitable position. This job needs applicants’ patience and care. for the last thing , I felt that was the metaphor of the composition. For searching the funny information, quite of people did it, that was “ freewheeling” working : “ using the scissors to take pictures, articles and made a collage at the big paper…” the only difference was some people’ working was quite endearing, but some were snubbed, the reason was the content of the collages, some collages’ pictures were disproportionate to their words, and vice versa. Some collages’ words was in right proportion with their pictures, but still did not get the welcome, because the topic was so boring, like a kind of cliché, something meretricious. For dealing with these work, I tried to figure out what is mainstream’s flavor. What’s topic was more prevalent among us. At that time I became a merchant who was making the advertisement, who wants to gauge what other people think…Exactly in our life, there are lots of trivial things, but if we treat them seriously, you would find that was not mediocre any more…