My Best Works From Every Subject

Mandarin 10

Science 10

P.E. 10

Social Sudies 10

Planning 10

Math 10

English 10

Art 10

Act in a Performance

I like music very much, and especially rock music, and I can play the electric guitar, I held a rock band with three of my schoolmates. On the NFLS Foreign Language festival, our rock band attended and had an act in front of all students and teachers of NFLS. Our band’s name is “GCA Rockies Rock Band”, we have a drum player, two guitar player and a bass player. We all love music so we came together to form this band.
I am the rhythm guitar player of our band, and it’s our second experience of acting. I didn’t feel as nervous as the first time, and we all played very naturally. The acting was good but we were still not enough outgoing, my friends said I should have more ardor, I agree it too. The night before the acting I was very excited and could hardly sleep. When I was standing on the stage in front of thousands of people, I felt a little bit nervous, but quickly I adjusted. I was into the act. After this, I thought I won’t feel nervous any more when I will act in front of many people.
I think our band will act more in the future and we can be better!

Player on the left is me

Went to Vitas’ Concert

On May 2nd, I went to the Russian singer Vitas’ concert with my best friend frank Wu. The concert was held in the Nanjing Olympic Centre, and it started at 7:30 pm. There were nearly 3 thousand people there and it was not crowded as I thought.
We arrived at the Olympic centre at 5 pm, and we were buying the tickets at the front gate. We found that there are many ticket tout there. We found that the tickets that tout were selling were much cheaper than the standard tickets, so I doubt the ticket were fakes, so finally we bought the standard tickets from the selling window. And unluckily, when we were entering the concert, I found that some others who bought the tickets from the ticket tout didn’t enter the concert because the tickets were fakes.
Vitas’ voice is very different from any other singer; his voice is a very high-pitched voice, sometimes like woman’s voice and it’s very special. He also brings the atmosphere there into a culminating point by saying some Chinese like “I love you” etc.
After watching his performance, I found that he is a very talented singer and I like his songs much more than before.

Basketball and Me

I love basketball very much, I started playing basketball when I was a child, and I am the player of our school basketball team. I play the role of SG (score guard), as you can see from the name, SG is the player who need to shoot and score. A SG is not a tall guy, and he should be nimble and have good ability to score, I think I am good at it. I play basketball every afternoon after school; actually it becomes a part of my life. I am not used to the life without basketball. When we are playing against other classes, I am the key figure of our class. I always get the most score and help our class to win.
Basketball is not only a sport that needs to play; you also need to think when you are playing. There is something called basketball IQ, it means how you will play with others during a game. If you are a very good player with super personal skill, but you don’t know how to match up with your teammates, you can’t win the game because you can’t win a team by yourself. The only way you can win is teamwork.
Playing basketball makes my body strong, make me have the willpower, I will keep playing it and never stop!

I am playing basketball

Soccer Club and Me

Soccer is one of my favorite sport, so I joined our school’s soccer club this year. Soccer is a team sport, there are 11 people on a team, but we high school students only have 7 players on a team. The soccer field that we use is smaller than the 11 on 11 fields. I am the left wing of our team, the main function of the two wings are score and assistance. We had played with many teams this year; we had played with many international students, teachers, other school teams, I found that my soccer skill improved a lot this year. When we were playing with some strong teams, I found that teamwork is very important, whether your personal skill is so good or bad; the only thing you need to think is teamwork, only a well-cooperated team can win.
Attending the soccer club also made a lot of friends for me, they can be from different classes, different grades, even from our opponent. During the training, I improved my skills very much; also improve the friendship with each other. During the matches, I learned to deal with the problem calmly.
As a good soccer player, you need to work with others, train hard, and have willpower. Our coach Mr. Penny always tells us not to give up until the end of the match, whether is winning or lose.
Anyways, soccer club is not only a club for students to play soccer, but also a place for us to learn, to grow up.

Our team went to Jiaxing to have a match

I was practicing

Art Exhibition

Yesterday, I went to Jiangsu Provincial Art museum to visit a art exhibition with Frank Wu and Allen. The museum was not far away from our school. We spent 10 min to arrive there. Then we came into the exhibition. We realized that the exhibition was about bulls. Because this year is bull year in China. All the artists drawed some pictures about cows and they send the pictures to there so that they could share their happyness with people by pictures.The ticket was free so we came into the building without paying money. Allen said the building made he felt a bit fear. Beacues the building was very old, almost all the doors had lost their paint. There were few people in the building we didn't find the people until we came to the 3rd floor. At the same time, many bull pictures came into our eyesight. They were very vivid. Next, I went to enjoy the picture by myself. I found one that was my favourite. But, unfortunately, I didn't find the name of this picture. It was the only one picture that drew a calf. The calf was turning its head, it looked like that he was called by someone. I was attracted by its ears and eyes. I found that if you looked its ears carefully it ears were different with others cows. About a half of hour later, we left the exhibition. The pictures beautiful and we had a good time there.

Had lunch with two friends in Japanese Restaurant

Today i had lunch with my two friends Alan and Frank Wu in a Japanese restaurant called Oedo. It is a very traditional Japanese restaurant. This restaurant has very special environment, the ground, the wall, even the ceiling. The ceiling is made of bamboos, the tables are separated by bamboos as well. There were Japanese style music around us, the temperature was suitable for us. The waiters and waitress there were wearing Japanese traditional cloth, they were polite and attentive.
The food there were special, but I don't like it very much. I ordered a chicken meal, and a bowl of vegetable called skirt vegetable. It tastes very special, have the flavor of both sour and sweet. It tastes very strange, I can not get used to it. The chicken meal is with some salad, two piece of orange, some dried radish, a bowl of soup and a bowl of steamed egg. It tastes good.
The understanding of Japanese for me before is only about the sushi, but now I know more about the Japanese food, they are special but not suitable for me…

Judo and me

I started learning the sport Judo in the July of 2008, the Judo hall is in the sports centre of the Nanjing University.After the first class,i found Judo is very interesting and useful. Don't like the other fighting skills,Judo is a kind of fighting skill that don't need too much strength(just compare with other fighting skills,in fact,any fighting skill needs some strength) .The highest level of Judo is to use the smallest power to make your competitor fall over or make them cannot move.Some of the actions in Judo is to break others arms(very cruel,never use them in the competation,just for protecting yourself when you are in danger).Judo is not a very popular sports in China,but it is become more and more popular.I have two american friends learning Judo with me,they told me Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu are very popular in America,so it is also a way to communicate with others.I also made many friends there,many of them are students of the Nanjing University,some of them are grown-ups.Judo is a sport that practice a man's willpower.When we are taking an actual combat,our teacher never let us give up and everybody never gives up.If you are taking an actural combat,you will feel exhausted even in 1 minute(a regular Judo combat is 5 minutes!!). I have taken about 80 lessons from July1st 2008 to Jan 10th 2009(three days a week),it is far beyond the required hour,but i will keep learning it and doing it,it becomes my obsession now!I will keep doing it for my whole life!I will not give up!!!

My volunteer work at Nanjing Library

On February 2nd,i went to the Nanjing Library to be a volunteer.I have worked at there for 10 hours a day.My job was to sort out the books that readers gave back. I thought it was not a very interesting job, but when i was doing it, i found that i can read a lot when there was nobody giving the books back and when they are giving the books back, i met some of my old classmates and friends. I read a lot of magazines, especially car magazines(because cars are my obsession).
The job was easy but it needs patient.I spent 8 hours sat there and doing the same action, i realized how toilsome the staffs in the library are. I only worked there one day(eight hours), but they need to stay there for months maybe years, even a whole life, that's need there willpower, i think they all did a nice job. They work for our city our citizens, they all very nice.
From this experience of volunteer, i learned that every job is not as relax as we think, every job needs to work hard, that's my biggest harvest of this volunteer work.

Biking Club

This term i joined the biking club,it was my first club that i joined at GCA.At first,i joined because i thought it is an interesting club,but after twice joined the club activities,i found that this sport became one of my favourite sports.Now i always go biking with my clubmates or my friends.I have attended 5 tours with our club this term,the longest tour was from our school to the Jiangxinzhou Island,it was about 85km for the whole tour,i really enjoyed the view on the road ,though the tour was long and rough,we always have some friends feel tired on the road,our club leader David often let us stop in order to give us a relex.It was also a good chance to make new friends and promotes sentimental between old friends and our teachers.It is also a good chance for us ESL students to communicate with foreigners to practice our English speaking.During the riding time,we also learned how to work together to solve problems,once one of our friend's bike was broken,all of our teamates stop to help him repair.Now,riding becomes one part of my life,i ride to school every day,i found the fun in the riding and it makes me stronger.I love riding!

Our club at top of the General Mountain

Supper with grade12 and classmates

On December 30th, I went to the Mexico restaurant with some grade 12s and my classmates, the name of this restaurant is Tacos. I have been this restaurant 2 times before, but I didn't have some traditional Mexican food, just some pizza and beef. This time, I have known something about the Mexican style food. The restaurant is on Zhujiang road and on the top floor of the Golden Eagle Shopping Mall. We supposed to be there at 5pm, but I was late, I arrived at 6pm. And I felt a little bit sorry about that. They chose the restaurant because they had a special card and we could only pay half of the price. That was great and I ate a lot that evening.
Generally, the environment was good because we could listen to some Mexican music while eating. The colors of the walls were auspicious and made me feel comfortable. I ordered the spaghetti carbonara and that tasted delicious. I really liked that kind of noodles because it tasted smooth and savory. And the way to eat noodles was quiet different from Chinese way. We needed to wind the noodles around the folk instead of using chopsticks. Most of the people there were foreigners.
However, the service there was not perfect. I even could not imagine why they cook the dishes so slowly that we waited for about 40 minutes. We just sat there and talking with each other. And the most serious thing was when some of us finished eating, I still not got the food to eat. That made me very embarrassed. So everyone sat there and waited for me.
In all, I will recommend my friends to Tacos because the food was tasty although the service was not so good.

Wu weishan's Exhibition

Wu weishan's Exhibition

Today,i went to the Wu weishan's sculpture exhibition with Ms Hadley and my classmates.Wu weishan is one of Nanjing's famous sculptor.His sculpture work "sleeping boy" got the Pangolin award.It was the first time of Chinese sculptor get this award.

During the visiting time, i found most of sculpture that Wu made is a kind of symbol,some of it have few details,give people a space of thinking,but some of his work looks very clear,people can know waht or who is in the sculptur,they have many details,like one sculpture is about a very famous Chinese Erhu(a kind of chinese traditional instrument) player named Ah-bin.

For my opinion, i like the sculpture looks more realistic,so i think the "Ah-bin" sculpture is the best of all his work.He makes the work have many details,especially on his face,make people feel this man is very pool,and the sunglass that he wears is the badge of this player.

I hope China will have more sculptor like Wu weishan stand on the stage of World,get more award of art.

At the end of the visiting,we meet the sculptor,we were very lucky because he was just come back from Shanghai by plane.He is very easygoing and generous,he gave Ms Hadley a book about the sculpture, he taught us a little knowledge about the sculpture.

The visiting is very interesting and meaningful,if i have chance,i will visit it again.

Ah-bin and me!