Attend the service in Catholic in Mochou Lu Church

Religious Service
On December 14th , I went to a Catholic church to attend a service in Cathilicism in Mochou Road because I thought it would be a good chance to learn Western religion . Luckily, I met some of my classmates there. We sat together waiting until the beginning of the service “A Christmas Service”.
The whole service started with a beautiful song called “O Come O Come Emmanuel” to welcome all the visitors. I held the brochure to see the lyric and sang along with the band even though I couldn’t sing it well.
After that, we went on to the second part. It was “Responsive Prayer”. A Chinese priest said some words and we needed to gave him response. He said “Beloved in Christ, as we wait for Christmas” We answered “Allow us to see how the angels announced the birth of Christ.” I found the part a little bit boring because I could just follow it.
However, the most interesting part was to see the drama “The True Christmas Story”It was performed by seminary students and some kindergarden children. I like the part that Jesus was born“That night, some shepherds were in the fields near Bethlehem, keeping watch over their flocks of sheep. An angel appeared to them and gave them the good news that a Savior, the Messiah, had been born. The angel told the shepherds they could find Jesus lying in a manger. Suddenly a whole group of angels appeared saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!The shepherds hurried into Bethlehem and found Jesus in the manger, just as the angel had told them. After they had seen Jesus, they spread the news, and everyone who heard was in awe.”I knew the legend of the birth of Jesus after watching that.
The service ended with another song and I walked out of the church.I found it interesting because I thought I learned some important things on Catholicism especially the drama gave me a deep impression on the birth of Jesus.I think the birth of Jesus bring peace to the world and give the people who was guilty a place to repent.

The Taming Of The Shrew

Go to a Performance
I went to see a drama called “the taming of the shrew” with most of my classmates at NFLS Auditorium starting at 6:30 p.m. on December 19 2008.
This drama “the taming of the shrew ” was based on the scenario written by Shakespare. I was quite interested in Shakespare’s plays and I had never heard of this play. Moreover, all the money collect would go to the charity. Therefore, I would like to go to have a look.
This drama was mainly about a story the main character Katharina, who is an intelligent, but grumpy shrew, unwillingly married a nobleman, Petruchio. Afterwards, Petruchio “tamed” his wife into an obedient and gentle woman.
However,I thought the most interesting part was that Petruchio and Kate returns home and Petruchio used all his talents to tame the shrew, especially when Petruchio didn’t let Kate have a good night sleep and Kate got mad. It was performed really fantastic. Moreover, to my surprise, in scene7,people gathered at Lucentio’s house. The men bet whose wife will obey their orders. Not a single woman obeys their husband except for Kate. I really laughed at those man because the actors who performed those men looked so embarrassed at that time.
I really enjoyed the drama and I found it interesting because of the good performance and the fantastic scenario written by Shakespare. Last thing I want to say is if we tried our best to achieve the goal and never give up,we could get it like Petruchio tried his best to “tame” Kate and they finally fell in love.

A visit to Jiangsu Province Art Museum

I went to the Jiangsu Province Museum with my friends Parker and Joe on the eighth of March. Jiangsu Province Museum was on Changjiang Road next to Nanjing people’s Great Hall. The exhibition was shown freely to the public all the time. The exhibition was called Calligraphy and Chinese painting. There were two floors in the museum building, the first floor mainly contained the calligraphies and there were many Chinese paintings on the second floor. I choose this exhibition mainly because I love painting and drawing.
A calligraphy appeals to me. It was written in ancient Chinese words by a contemporary artist. The title of the calligraphy was “Lively Evergreen trees”. The words were written powerfully in a very dark black on the scroll. I could feel the power of life even the smallest creatures not only from the meaning of the ancient Chinese words but also from the way of writing. I gained a lot of insight from the calligraphy that is I need to be full of courage and confidence to face the future life.
I thought it’s very interesting to me because I was attracted by the contents of the Chinese paiting. I liked the exhibition very much because I gained a lot of insight from those calligraphies and paintings after thinking deeply.

Eat in a Maxico Restaurant with my family

After reading the Nanjing Map Magazine, I found an Mexico restaurant on Zhujing Road. A few years ago, I was fortunate to eat the Mexico food in a USA family(New Mexico), it’s so savory that I cannot forget the good taste until now. Therefore, I recommended my parents and grandparents to go there to eat lunch on the eighth of March)
The Mexico restaurant was located in Zhujiang Road next to the 1912 street. We drove there on Sunday noon. As soon as I got into the restaurant, I saw a status of a Mexico cow boy at the gate and a wooden shelf with many bottles of wine. After passing through the path, we entered the dinning hall. We sat down in a table in the middle of the hall and saw many pictures about grapes and wines surrounding us. Above our head, there were two flags hanging on the roof, one was a flag of China and the other one was a flag of Mexico. All of the above was in order to create a circumstance that let us feel that we have already been there. A waitress wearing Mexican clothes came to us and showed us the menu. I couldn’t wait to order some Mexican cuisines such as Tacos, steaks with rice and some Mexican noodles.
Soon, the first cuisine came, it was the Mexican noodles. It was made by the noodles and a special kind of tomato sauce with some beef. It taste sour and it’s a feature of the Mexican cuisines. We knew that Mexico abounded in tomatoes because of enough sunlight so that the cuisines were normally taste sour. I have o say this one fit my appetite properly. There were also many foreigners eating in that restaurant besides us. I would recommended others to eat in the restaurant not only because of the savory food but also because the good service. The food was handed over quickly so the customer did not feel hungry and the waitress often asked us if we want to add some water or juice.

My Badminton Training

I joined a badminton club outside the school when I was ten years old.I was trained to played badminton since then and I really enjoyed it.I usually go to a badminton center on Zijing Road to train playing badminton.
My trainer was a 45-year-old man named Yuan,we usually called him trainer Yuan.Trainer Yuan was in charged of training the boys from 10 years old to 18years old in the club. I was one of the eldest in the club. However, I couldn’t beat those boys who was younger than me because they had good badminton skill and they have been a member of the club for 4years.Trainer Yuan was one of the athletes in Nanjing badminton team so he was really good at playing and training badminton.
I usually go there on Saturday when I am free. I will bing all my stuff with me there. First lesson in my schedule was to learn how to serve.I thought that serving was too easy. However, trainer Yuan said it’s easy to for me to serve but your serve was low-quality and it means that you couldn’t serve far with strong power , since I am here to be trained, I needed to serve farther than my opponent did or you would lost the game because of a bad ending. Since then, I started the practise serving.Trainer Yuan gave me a basket of badminton ball and I had to serve them all to the other side of the court from one side. He added that I needed to serve all the ball over the secong line of the badminton court. After doing that,I was really tired and he just gave me a 5-minute-break in order to increase my phisical power. Next, I started to serve a badminton ball which was hung by a thread. There was a mirror on my left hand side and it was used to show me the way to serve. The way to serve was really important, you could use a liitle force toserve very far he said.
After the serve training, he I started another training and that was to learn how to play the badminton ball far and high. He put up a posture and asked me to imitate his posture for 10 minutes with him.I imitate him and it didn’t last too long and I felt tired and my arms were painful. On the other hand trainer Yuan was still there putting up his posture for up to ten minutes. From that moment, I knew I couldn’t retreat and give up and I should require more tenacity. Every time I was there,I tried to continue keeping that posture longer and longer.Finally,I did it, I last it for 10 and my badminton skill has been improved. I was really glad.
I learned a lot about myself during that time.I knew I couldn’t be very proud,in stead I should practise harde.I should never give up but keep doing it. After those experience,I learned a lot of badminton skills and some truth. Now,my body becomes more and more strong and I have a lot of phisicai power.I was very active and I wanted to be a badminton player. I think my phisical power was still a limitation for me to achieve my goal.

My badminton club

Education&Career Planning
I have joined the badminton club since I entered GCA.I was really interested in playing badminton and I was very proud of my badminton skills because I was trained to play badminton when I was 10 years old that’s one of my reason to choose to join the badminton club.
Our badminton club has activities every Wesdnesday and Saturday afternoon.We were ordered to wear GCA badminton team uniform and brought our own badminton racket and balls.Our group leader this year was Leo,he was one of the top students in Grade 11.Our badminton club teacher was Mr.Harries, he was also my PE teacher.
After introducing some information on badminton club, I would like to say something on the process of the activities.
When should reach the badminton court on time with all the stuff we need.First, Mr.Harries would order us to stand in line and he started to count the number of us in order to make sure every one was there.Then,he would do some warm up with us such as “stretch your body”and “catch the head of the train”. We did this in order to prevent injurying ourselves when we were playing badminton.Our club had a lot of members but we only have five badminton courts.In order to solve this problem,tow courts were used to play single badminton competition and there wer used to play double badminton competition.When one side failed,the failed side would came down to have a rest.
I liked to play with Mr.Harries because he was a good badminton player and he would give me a lot of valuable suggestions on how to play well. Once I played badminton with him and lost a lot of points. He said i always lose point at the front because i don’t have enough force to hit the ball back far away and if so you had two ways to solve that problem, one is to exercise more to be stronger and the other one is to make the ball next to the net not very high from the net or you give me a chance to smash so he would win. I listened carefully on what he said and tried to correct my problems.
At the end of the activity, we usually played basketball for a while or ran along the outer side of the basketball court to increase our physical power. Finally, we could go back home. Our club activity was intersting and also strenuous.
I learned that our badminton club was a place to learn a new kind of skill and make our body much more stronger. I thought I should be modest and accept others’ suggestions more so I could be stronger on playing badminton.I thought we should help each other more to solve others’ problem to work effectively and safely with other students at GCA.My club was very organized that’s the good point but it really cost money sometimes. I practiced badminton in the badminton club.I think the connection between my experience and what I learned was the more experience I have, the more skills I would learned.The other reason for me tojoin the badminton club is that I would like tobe abadminton player in the future. I think I am tall enough to play badminton but I need to increase my phisical power.

Volunteer to help teacher Mr.Harries

These days we helped our PE teacher Mr.Harries cleaning up his office.As a PE teacher you know, his office were full of stuff such as hula hoops,basketball and cushions used to do some exercise.
At first,we stood in line and waited for Mr.Harries’s instruction he was very satisfied and gave each of us a pair of gloves and took pictures for our clean gloves.After that, he asked us to move all the stuff outside his office.We started to work from remove the cushions first.The cushions were overlaped very high.I wanted to move one of it but it’s really hard and the cushions were almost fallen down. “Stop it”one of my group members said we should climb to the top of the cushion so that we could take them easily and it won’t fall down.” “That’s a good idea”I said.We followed what he said and a boy climbed up to the top of the cushions and give the top cushions to us below.It continued for 30 minutes but it’s so slow and we still have seven cushions to move out.I qickly found out why it happened and said tomy classmates that the door of the offic is to narrow only one person can pass through and we also spent a lot of time on the way delivering the cushions.I suggested that we could stand in line from the inside to the outside,it saved the time on the way and it didn’t matter even the gate was narror. They said it’s a very good idea and followed my instruction.My strategy works,it took only 15 minutes to carry all the cushions outside.
After doing that,Mr.Harries ordered us to deliver all the cushions to the hooky court with the two small drag car. The car was too small and it wasn’t long enough to carring a cushion, I unitd the two drag cars together so it’s enough long and we put cushions on it and drag them there.This policy helped us save a lot of time from carring them there one by one.
When we arrived there,Mr Harries told us measure how long the court and the cushion were.We used a very long soft ruler to measure.After that we started to calculate how many cushions do we need if we put the cushion along the court.I was quickly
Finally, teacher let us stand in line again and took a picture of our dirty hands.It was awful.
After a day’s working I found that teacher was really difficult to be.You need to prepare for the next class all the time and gave up their spare time.To me, I found I should be calm when facing the problems and think over some good ideas.If we wanted to work effectively and safely we should be organized.and come up with some creative ideas to solve difficult problems.I played the role of delivering and calculating.When we have enough experiment,wo could increase our employability and life skills.I was very glad to help my teacher and learn a lot of employabilities for my future life.