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…