Religious Service

On 14th December 2008, I went to Mochou Lu Church Nanjing with my friends Chris and Victor. We met at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at the gate of the church. We saw a lot of people there. Our planning teacher Ms. Bartell was also went there. On that day the Christian were celebrating the Christmas.

I was not a Christian, and in fact I did not believe it. But I would go abroad to study, and Christ was a kind of culture in the western countries. So I thought it was a good chance for me to learn more about the culture in different countries. That was the reason why I joined the event. Another reason was that I had not been to a church yet, and I even did not know there was a church in Nanjing maybe more.

When we went into the church, we saw a lot of people. The church was very beautiful. There was a nun on the stage reading something. And then the Christian followed her. But I totally did not understand. After reading the long prayer, the nun leaded us to sing song. However I had not heard the song. I could not sing, and I did not know what the song talked about.

To tell the truth, I felt boring. I did not know anything during the whole process. However I experienced the festival atmosphere. I was also happy to join the event.

Volunteer work in Jinling Library

On 30th April, Victor, Gerry, Tim and I went to Jinling Library to do the volunteer work. In the morning we met at Nanjing No.9 Middle School, and then we went to the library together. We found the curator and asked for some volunteer work. The curator said that he could not find any suitable work for us, because they did a lot of work that we could do before. So he asked us to read some books in the reading room and wait for him to find some work for us. About 20 minutes later the curator came back. Finally he found some work for us.

Then the curator took us to another reading room and introduced us to another librarian. After a short talking between the curator and the librarian, the curator left. The librarian showed us what we would do. That was organizing the books on the bookshelves. Though the books on the bookshelves seemed organized, the numbers of the books were messy. So our mission was to put the books on the bookshelves they should be on. You know that libraries often have many same books, that is good for different readers who want to read on book. But sometimes they could not put books in the right place. So another mission for us was to put the same books together and put them on the right bookshelves.

After telling us what to do and some details we should pay attention to, the librarian left. We started working. Everyone was responsible for on bookshelf. At first we thought that was an easy work. But when we did that, we changed our mind. Two minutes later, nobody found anything wrong with the number of the books. I was dazzled to many small numbers. Suddenly I found a wrong number, I was very happy. However another problem appearanced that was which bookshelf the book should be on. I walked around the reading room to find the right bookshelf. I took almost ten minutes to find it. Only on mistake made me very tired. I realized that was not a very easy work, and we must do it carefully, otherwise we would loss many mistakes. Gradually the other three friends had found wrong books. After us finding all the wrong numbers, we needed to put the same books together. That was not easy too.

We finished our own work in 3 hours. We were very tired. To do that work we did not only to use our mind, it was also a muscular labor. We often needed to stoop low to find the books and bring the books. So we were very tired. After a short break, we thought that was better to change with each other, and check. That was easier for another person to find the mistakes. Really we found many mistakes that others lost. Two hours later we all finished.



Sometimes the things you think they are easy, but they are not. So we can not look down on anything. Although we were very tired, we felt very happy when we saw the books were organized.

Fshion show

On 27th April, a big, wonderful, fantastic performance was held in GCA. That was our super Fashion Show. The models were all the students or teachers in GCA, and the clothes they wore were designed and made by us, students in GCA. Before the fashion show we were divided in different groups, and each group should design 6 clothes and make one design to the real clothes. We took a lot of time to prepare the fashion show.

I went to the fashion show with Lawrence and Gerry at 6 p.m. The show located in NFLS. At the beginning, we saw an exciting hip-hop from a very famous team in Nanjing. The dance and music made me felt very cool. After that 6 emcees came out and introduced something about that show. Two of the emcees were from our class 10 C, they were Grace and Alex. They looked very nice. Then the fashion show began.

The first model was Tim in our class. When we saw him appearences all the students from 10 C screamed. Then the models walked around one by one.Victor was the model in our group, and his clothes were designed by our group members. So we felt proud to see him on the stage. And his clothes looked very nice. Victor looked very handsome too. There were also many teachers played the roles of model. I thought Ms. Chu was the most sexy model, and Mr. Haris was very handsome. All the models on the show were very nice.

I liked the fashion show and enjoyed it very much.

Act in a performance

On December 31st 2008, GCA held an Art Festival. Our class 10 C had a performance on the show. We would play the drama Snow White. Our director was Abby. Also the play was written by Abby. I played the role of a titan. Our creative director Abby changed the seven dwarfs into seven titans. That must be interesting.

That was my first time to act in GCA. So I was a little bit nervous. In the drama Soda played the main character Snow White. That was very funny for her to play the role. When practiced before, we laughed many times. We did not say anything, because some students would dub. During the show, there was something funny happened. Kevin was the lead of the seven titans, but he jumped into the stage in a wrong time. When he realized he made a mistake, we all laughed, and the spectators laughed too. I remembered when we practiced, Kevin had made the same mistake. That was so funny. However there were little mistakes, there were also many things fantastic. Such as the people who dubbed were very good, they did a great job. Most actors and actresses played very well. We were all successful.

Although there was something wrong happened, it was also a successful drama. I thought my first show was very good. The process was very funny. We often laughed when we practiced. We had a lot of fun during the show. I love it.

Academic Showcase

English 10

Social Studies 10

Math 10

Art 10

P.E. 10

Planning 10

Science 10

Mandarin 10

Italian Food

On 8th March Gerry, Chris, Lawrence, Victor, Tim, Paul and me went to Bella Napoli Italian Restaurant. It was an Italian restaurant. It was on Xinjie Kou. We went there because Lawrence suggested us to have lunch there. We arrived there at about half past eleven.

When we were outside the restaurant, we thought it did not open. Because we saw it was dark inside the restaurant. But when we went in it, we found it was not very dark and the sunshine could though the windows. The sunshine was better than lights. We felt very comfortable to eat in sunshine. The environment was very good. It was quiet and the light music made us felt very good. Maybe the time was a bit early so there was not many people there.

I ordered spaghetti and salad. There was seafood in the spaghetti. It was delicious. I liked it. But it did not like noodles in China. It was a bit sour and sweet, the taste was special. And there was no soup with the spaghetti. That was cool. In China, noodles are often in soup and they are never sweet. But I also loved spaghetti. However the salad was different from the salad I have eaten, and I did not like it very much. But it was not very bad. The service was good there. The waiters were kind.

At about 12 o'clock, that was lunchtime. We saw some foreigners came into the restaurant and had meals. They were received by the manager, because she could speak English and the other waiters could not.

The food was good, but it was not cheap. I spent about 100 Yuan for two things. If you have enough money, I suggest you to go there. The environment, food, service are very good. If you are a foreigner do not worry about the language. You may have good time there.

Nanjing Museum

On 8th of March, my friends Lawrence, Gerry, Chris, Tim, Paul, Tim and me went to Nanjing Museum together. The reason why we visited Nanjing Museum was that Nanjing Museum did not like other exhibitions, it included many different kings of exhibitions. We could enjoy many kinds of exhibitions and different ways of art for going to one place, and it opened everyday. An other reason was that Nanjing Museum was free. That was good for us. Nanjing Museum was on East Zhongshan Road.

First we went to the Ancient Chinese Lacquer Exhibition. There were many lacquers there. Some of we even have not seen. However the introductions told us what the lacquers used for.This is Ruyi in Gold Lacquer, it was in Qing Dynasty, A.D. 1644-1911.It was on of my favourite lacquers. It was made of gold and the carving was perfect and careful. It was unbelievable. This was just one of the lacquers in the exhibition.

Then we went to the Ancient Chinese Jade Exhibition. Over there we learnt how to make jade. And also many beautiful jades there. Afterwards we were in the Cloud Brocade Hall.This was a robe with design of dragon among clouds. It was for the emperor. From the guide we knew it took 3 years to make this robe. That was miraculous.

We also saw Wuwei Shan Cultural Figures Sculpture Gallery. And there were many beautiful paints from The 8 Strange Persons Of Yangzhou in Ancient Chinese Painting Exhibition.