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!

The Club Activities

Last term, I have joined at the Guitar Fans Club because I like the music very well. Our Guitar Fans Club’s proprieter is called Christopher. He is in Grade 10-D. Christopher is a very nice guitarist, I think there are almost no music book can daunt him, he’s guitar skill is quite excellent. I think guitar is a very lovely musical instrument because I think its voice is not only pleasant to hear, but also very handsome while we play it. I like guitar very much.

The first time when I joined in the club activities, in accordance with the president’s request, I brought a new guitar. I love this guitar very much; its body is navy blue and its sounds very pretty. Our Guitar Fans Club’s proprieter taught us how to look the music book and know about our guitar. Then I began to understand that the guitar looks simple in structure and easy to upper hand，but in fact, if you want to play the guitar very well you must spend a lot of time to practice.

At the very beginning, when I learned use my fingers to press the string, my fingers were very ache and my fingers were having some impressions by the string. Although my fingers felt ache, I still love the guitar. I love music, love art, I don care about some little problem, and I think these problems are not bad things but funny things. I felt very happy while I played the guitar. Sometimes, I could not play one melody smooth, so I tried to practice over and over, as far as I could play that melody smooth.
Occasionally, I had some question about guitar, I will ask our proprieter. If I could not find our proprieter, I will ask for my friend who also joined at the Guitar Fans Club. We can discuss the problem and we usually found the solution.

During the process, when I practiced the guitar, I felt a little temper. It was difficult to connect the rhythm when I was not proficiency in it. However, after this process, I understand that there are a lot of things in our lives are look very simple, but in fact, that are not true. We always judge those things by appearances and neglect the essence, so we should see the essence through the appearance. At the beginning, I thought the guitar is very easy to learn, but when I began to practice it, I found that I was wrong. In fact, guitar is easy to upper hand but difficult to playing very well.

I have joined the Guitar Fans Club for 3 months, in these 3 months; I learned about many things, the most important thing is: we should overcome the difficulty and always look ahead. I think the Guitar Fans Club is very nice and its strength is: our proprieter knows that most of us are green hands, so he divided us into several groups, in this way, he can teach us more easily and we can learn the guitar more quick. However, it also has the weaknesses: sometimes, I would suspend the class in one of the week because my guitar activity time is in every Friday’s evening, but I had to go home occasionally. I think, next term, I will talk to the proprieter and adjust the activity time with him. I believe that Guitar Fans Club will become one of the best Clubs in GCA.

Having French Food with My Family

I have eaten a French dinner with my parents and my cousin on Jan 31st. The restaurant’s name is Le Mistral. The Le Mistral is located in Sofitel Galaxy Nanjing 7F. The Le Mistral is open every evening except on Monday.The reason why we choose this restaurant is that NANJING MAP MAGAZINE says the Le Mistral is the only French delicate dining restaurant in Nanjing. From homemade goose liver to Chateaubriand and tartes tatin, Le Mistral displays the best creations of Mater Chef Remco Vaatstra.

In the evening of Jan 31st, at 5:40, my parents, my cousin and I went to the Le Mistral. The environment there is very comfortable and romantic and we smelled the perfume while we went into the restaurant’s door. The waiters were very fervor and thoughtful. They helped us sit and laid our napkin across our lap. Then, they gave us the menu and we took the order.

At the very beginning, after we had bread, as my cousin was very lovely, he daubed a lot of butter and said it was very yummy. Then my cousin and I took the hot appetizers: Les petits bourguignons. The snails wre prepared in a classic French way, which was served with toasted brioche. Next, we had the delicious soap: Bisque of homard with sole fish, crispy spinach and dried tomatoes. After that, we had the Main Course: Loin of park, slowly simmered in herb oil broth with a final roast touch Gratons, sweet potato mousselline and green asparagus, shallot and garlic jus. My father ate: Braised turbot with Belgium endive, seasonal vegetables and eggplant caviar Ricotta with dried tomatoes lemon grass sauce. Finally, we had the desserts. The dessert’s name which I ate is: Assorted Parisian mini pastries. It is very pretty and tastes really nice!

I like those foods because they look nice and tastes delicious. The western food’s cooking, materials, tableware and foods are all different from China’s but there are all delicious as same as China’s.. There were not very more people over there but I want to recommend other people to try the cooking style there. Although the price there is a little high, the food there are full of delicacy and delicious. I valued that experience very much.

The dessert is really cute!

The Volunteer Work

I was a member of Charity Volunteers last year and I tried to participate in the every week’s. Although I spent just two months on those, the each activity is very clear in my mind. In the school, we were required to do 10 hours’ volunteer work, so I attended 5 times’ Charity volunteers’ activities.

In the Charity Volunteers, I was assigned the task of teaching the primary school students’ English, Chinese and Math. Teaching the little students was very tired, because they always had a lot of outlandish ideas and we had to make them paying their attention to us. At the beginning, we thought they were very act up. But after a period of time, we found that was not true.

I always went to there with several students in Grade 10 to 12. The first time we saw the little students, they were very welcoming us. There was a lovely boy who always laughed at a Grade 12 student and we didn’t know why. Maybe the boy thinked it was funny. To return to my muttons, we started to assign work. I was in charge of teaching the lovely boy whom I just mentioned. Teaching the students looks very easy, however, it is not easy. The little boy always imagined something, and never wanted to study hard. So, I told the boy that we could learned for thirty minutes and had a rest for 10 minutes. He agreed with me. After that, in each class we cooperated well. I taught the boy a lot of new words and some simple sentences forms in English. He was very smart and remembered them quickly. In Chinese, I told him the difficult Chinese characters and taught him how to recite the poems. In Math, I just helped him to solve the problem which he didn’t understand. We often played some little games with other GCA’s friends and little students in the rest time. We were very happy.

Through these activities, I realize a lot of things. I understand that cooperation is very important. In these activities, we need to cooperate with our friends and students because many things need our collective force to finish. During this process, I feel that teaching students is very tired and cost my energy and even patience. But after these two months’ activities, I understand that this process let me gain a lot of educations. I clear about many things .Also, I begin to know that we should do our utmost to do everything. During this process, I really show my skills required to work effectively and safely with others and to succeed as individual and collaborative workers.

Through this process, I learn much knowledge that we cannot learn from our textbook. I believe that teaching the little students is good for me and also good for the community!