Fashion Show

My Lovely Classmates and Teachers

My whole classmates.

My good friend and me.

Mr. Ma

Bill's birthday~

Alice, Maggie and me.~

Other Recognition/awards

Here is a Fundraising Certificate. This is one of my group project, we raised the most money which is 494 yuan and our group is the winner of 2009 Fundraising Activity.Our group members are Allen, Kassie, Maggie, Mike.

Mandarin 10

My best Mandarin homework, you see, I got 5＋.

Planning 10

This is one of my best Planning homework.

Science 10

This is my Science Group Project and our group got a very high marks. My Science essay got the full marks and I felt very happy at that time.

P.E. 10

We are playing the game!

Art 10

I have much good Art homework.^^ This is one of my approving artworks.

Math 10

This is my best Math Quiz. I got the full marks!^^

Social Studies 10

This is my best Social Studies Quiz. The full marks is 20 and I got 19.

The Memorable Volunteer Work

The work of volunteers is very nobleness, because the volunteers make many contributions to society and they do not want the reward. We always can see a lot of volunteers sent out the brochures about environmental protection or whip-round in the sun or wind among the crowd. However, many passers do not pay any attention to them; they even leave about the leaflet. Their actions make me angry and I decide to be a volunteer at that time.

I have been a member of Charity Volunteers last year and I tried to participate in the every week’s activities. This year I am a volunteer of Maanshan Country Tax Bureau of Economy and Technology Development Zone, because I can do the volunteer work in my hometown---Maanshan. When I went there and said I want to be a volunteer, the people in office were very happy; they said that I can help them when I have the free time.

I felt that the time was very short when I was doing the volunteer work. For example, an afternoon, I was going to find some work to do, suddenly, a good-tempered uncle saw me and asked to me: “Hi, I don’t know how to use Excel to count, could you please come here to help me?” I was so happy because Mr. Gallinelli was just teaching us in the last class. Then, I taught the uncle and he learned to count. Unconsciously, one hour had been passed. I used the other one hour to clean the lobby’s banisters and the lobby’s floor. The cleaner taught me how to mop the floor efficient so I can do the cleaning work handy and facility.

The other day, I helped an aunt to sort out data. She sprained her ankle when she was going to the company, so I decided to help her to sort out the data. She said “Thanks” to me and told me how to sort out those data. When I finished the work, I gived her my telephone number and said that if she needs my help, she can call me. The aunt looked very happy and said thanks to me. I felt very satisfied because I could get the trust from the other people.

During the time while I be a volunteer in the Maanshan Country Tax Bureau of Economy and Technology Development Zone, I learned a lot of knowledge and information about how to clean, how to sort out data file, how to guide the way to the taxpayer or the other people, how to communicate with the stranger. After this process, I find that I become more confident and I can do some difficult things by myself. These unique experiences can make me be sure of myself and I believe that I can do better in the future!

English 10

I think it is my best English homework. I got the full marks! I feel very happy and I believe a sentence: where there is a will, there is a way!

An Interesting Public Event

I have watched a wonderful lecture on April 13th. The lecture made me understand a lot of thing about movie and I think it was a nice lecture. On that day, after the lunch, Alice, Maggie, Shirley and I went to GCA Ms. Morgan’s classroom. Jenny, who was the experienced TV presenter, was already standing in front of the classroom and David Tao, our Movie Club Leader, was going to say the prologue.
We found the seats and began to watch the lecture. Jenny went to GCA to have the lecture was because David Tao hoped she can come here to have a lecture and make us learn more information about movie or TV.
During the lecture, Jenny told us many things about how to make the TV or movie, such as record, post-editing, compilation, making up, the choice of music, are all very important. She said as we know, when we make the movie we will find that the movie’s effect is not as same as the moment when we shoot it, is worse than before. The reason of it is that we don’t have the creative, professional people to make up our movie and we don’t have enough experience.
In fact, this is not a real lecture, because we had a lot of interaction during the lecture, and we can ask any question which we were not very understand. Jenny was very kind and she answered every question patient. I like this event because I learned many things from Jenny. I make a plan that I will watch at least one movie once a week because I think movies can give us some ideas and as a Movie Club member, it’s good for me!

Go to a Performance with My Best Friend

I have watched a wonderful performance on December 19th 2008. This performance is called “The Taming of the Shrew”. The main character of this show is Katharina, who is an intelligent, but grumpy shrew, unwillingly married nobleman, Petruchio. Afterwards, Petruchio “tamed” his wife into an obedient and gentle woman.

In the evening of December 19th, 2008, Fiona and I went to Nanjing Foreign Language School Auditorium which is on the 3rd floor, over the Cafeteria to watch the performance. The reason why we choose this performance is that this performance was from GCA Drama Club and we wanted to see the product of Drama Club’s labor.

The door opened at 6:30pm. Fiona and I decided to spend the extra time to do some volunteer work and our work was to guide the way for the VIP. There were many audiences going there and there were also many teachers who came round to watch the show. With a wink, the show was going to begin. Every one was very excited and we didn’t know the actors. The introduction of “The Taming of The Shrew” is a drunken man Sly who has a dream in an inn. In his dream, he meets a lord and his pages that intends to play a trick on him. They perform a play for him………

I think this performance was interesting and every actor performed very well. This performance was common for me because I couldn’t understand every thing in it, but it was not boring, as its plot was attractive. This performance made me further understand the Shakespeare ; What’s more, this is one of my unforgettable experience.

One Unique Western Food Learning Experience

Participate in a Service Activity organized by a GCA teacher

April 11th was Saturday, Maggie and I went to school to learn how to cook the Western food. Ms. Bartell told us that we should learn how to make the Western food, and then taught another two of our Fundraising Group members: Allen and Mike. We met at the GCA on 8:30, and the person who taught us is an international student and our task is making a chocolate cake.

At the very beginning, the international student told us to buy some materials for the chocolate cake. Maggie and I have been allocated to buy eggs. Then, at 9 o‘clock, we started with these materials which includes one bag of flour，three bunches of chocolate，three pears, one box of eggs，some sugar and ten boxes of butter.

The process of cooking the chocolate cake is not very easy. First step was mixing flour and eggs into a vessel. When the flour and eggs were mixing together, put the melting chocolate and butter into the vessel. The third step was putting the massive pears into the vessel, then took one oven paper enclosed the vessel and put it into the oven. Next, we needed to wait. After almost forty minutes, the chocolate cake was finished! It tasted very nice and it was the first time I cook the cake. It made me felt very excited and interested.

I love this activity because it let me know the joys of cooking. At the next two weeks, Maggie and I taught Allen and Mike to make this cake. Then we played up strengths and avoided weaknesses; finally, we cooked our own chocolate cake, and Ms. Bartell and every 10-F students have tasted our cake!

An Interesting Exhibition

Today is a nice day. At 2:40 p.m., Alice, Shirley and I were going to Nanjing Museum. Just at that moment, we saw many GCA students. Julia, Cindy Yue, Peter Hou, and some other students were also at Nanjing Museum. Nanjing Museum is near Zhongshan East Road and the exhibition is open to the public all over the year. The reason why we chose to go there is that the exhibition is free and it has many kinds of halls. There are “Fabric And Embroldery Hall”, “Ancient Chinese Jade”, “Ming and Qing Porcelain”, “Ancient Treasure”, “Ancient Bronze”, “Ancient Chinese Earthen Ware”, and “Ancient Chinese Lacquer”.

My favorite hall is “Fabric And Embroldery Hall”. There is a lot of beautiful fabric and embroildery there. Cloud Brocade, the head of “ Nanjing Craft Three Treasures”, is the tradition jacquard weave silk weaving in Nanjing. As you know, Chinese invented the silkworm raising, filature and silk weaving firstly appeared in the world. The embroidery technique developed deeply. For thousands of years of development process, embroidery technique has formed the unique skill and the expression means. The embroldery is not only the pure solid one but also the valued artwork now, holding the important status in the Chinese art history.

I think the most interesting artwork is “Jin silk pouch”. The Jin silk pouch in the exhibition is founded in Qing Dynasty (AD 1644 1911). Do you know what pouch is? You can put money in your pouch; it is like a kind of purse. Pouch in China is beautiful and it represents the antiquity. I also like the “Jin silk dalian bag”. It is also founded in Qing Dynasty.

I like Nanjing Museum very much, and I am also in faovor of the exhibition. This exhibition has many different halls and every hall has many interesting exhibits. Those exhibits make us eyes in a mess. We knew much history about China from them and learned much valuable information. This is really a very meaningful trip!

The Physical Activities

Last term, I have joined at the Badminton Club and taken the exercise for 16 hours! I know that we just need 10 hours of an organized or official physical activity, but I was practice for 16 hours unconsciously. I was very surprised about my activity times because in fact, I am a little bit lazy and I don’t love athletics.

I still remember that last summer holiday; I was just finishing my junior middle school so I didn’t have any homework. My mother saw that I always played the computer games, watched the TV, watched the films, read the books and I almost never went outside my home. One day, my mother said to me that she had helped me to find a badminton teacher and the teacher will teach me how to play badminton. Although I don’t like to go outside and take some exercises, I still agree with my mom, because I really want to learn a new ball game. I was learning the badminton in all my summer holiday and I can play the badminton well at the end of the holiday, so in the new term, I decided to join in the Badminton Club.

The life in the Badminton Club is very interesting and funny. Every time when I went to the Nanjing Normal University, I was very happy. Some of my classmates in 10-F also joined in this club, so we can play badminton together. Every time when I played badminton I always felt tired, although it is tired to me, I still love it. Every time I felt very happy when I received the ball and stroked back the ball. I was enjoying it. As a competitor/athlete, I find that badminton is a very nice athletic sport; it can not only help us with more activities, but also practice our body's arthrosises. Some thing makes me happy is after this three months’ practice, I find that I am getting thin^^.

During this process, I understand that we should in conjunction when we play badminton (except the formal match). Playing badminton also can help me to change my unhealthy lifestyle and make me have more stamina. I used to eat a lot of snack and less vegetable. I also used to play the computer games and watch TV during the weekend. However, when I joined in the Badminton Club, I always play badminton with my friends in my free time. Now, step by step, I found that I have the regular working time, and I began to want to eat vegetables, I really don’t know why. Physical activities really can help us build up our bodies, and makes us have the good lifestyles. Therefore, our students should do more exercise to make us have more energy to study because nothing is more important than our health!

Through this club, I made a lot of friends and I realized that friends are more important than the match. If I don’t have so much friends, I will not be happy in the Badminton Club!