10-D memory

Noah

sleepy Gary

lovely Jim

egg competition

military training

academic showcase

my planner

My Term2 Grade10 report card, I did pretty well in Science, Maths and PE

one of my Enlish essay. It's best in my class

my art critique worksheet for Wuweishan exhibition. No.2 in my class

my Social test. It's 77% and I was the third place in this test

I usually did well in Maths 10. These kinds of quiz are full mark mostly.

my PE journal, good!

go to a performance

I watched a concert on the evening of May 1, 2009. It was a piano solo. The pianist was a very young man named Shenwenyu. He was really a genius on play piano and was called Mozart in China by some famous pianists. This concert was pretty excited because I used to study piano from grade 2 to grade 7. I have past level eight on piano test. Also, I love classical music very much. He played Beethoven’s Fate Symphony No.1; Hungarian Rhapsody written by Franz Liszt, FANTAISIE—IMPROMRTU OP.66 created by Chopin and some extremely difficult music written by Rachmaninoff. These melodies were all so familiar for me. When he was playing, my fingers were even out of control and started to play on my legs. When I was in elementary school, my mom always take me to watch some concert in concert hall. Once, the Russian National Symphony Orchestra went to Nanjing. My mom wanted to go by herself, but I also want to go with her. She said that I’m just a kid and it’s the same to listen to a concert at home and in the concert hall. Why do we waste 400RMB ticket money? But I said, is the same to feel the surf on the sandy beach and in television? My mom was shocked and let me go with her.
In Shenwenyu’s piano concert, the audiences are all parents and their children who want to study piano. Those kids are around five to ten years old. I was really shocked by those small kids because when they listen to the concert, they were really excited. I hope more and more people can appreciate classical music because it contains the musician’s thought and life. It’s also a reflection for a part of history.

another 10h Volunteer experience

There are three fruit stores, two supermarket and three drug stores next to my apartment. They have drastic competition everyday. But there’s only one hardware store next to my apartment. Why? I think because it’s really a good store and other businessmen are afraid to have a store beside it. There are hundreds of things make from metal in it. Their services are really good. No matter what hardware you buy from them, they will come to your house and fix it without any payment. Also, the seller in the hardware store is a high level technician. He can fix almost anything in a house. This helped him to be a successful businessman, I think.
On May 1, 2009; my mom went to the hardware store and buy some locker on doors. The seller came to my house and prepared to set them on the door. I thought this was a good time to have a working experience. So I asked him to teach me how to set the lockers on the doors. This was not easy at all. The locker on door has two parts. One is the handle, the other is a locker. First, the holes on the original door are not suitable for the new locker. So I have to use a drill to bore a bigger hole in it. After that, I have to put the locker at the right place and start to put the screw into it. There were fifteen screws totally.
When I finished the setting for doors, I went into the hardware store to sell things for them. There are hundreds types of pipes in the store. Some are for bathtub, some for toilet and some for coal gas. I cannot remember all the data of the pipe diameter, but I try my best to have a good altitude to customers.
It’s really a good chance to know how to deal with some problem in our life. This can help us a lot when we go to foreign countries in the future.

I had a special experience on March 14th 2009. I met a group of people from Denmark. Ms. Bartell told us they used to in Amity Foundation. They went back to China to have a look again to see the changes in China. Our mission is to take them around NFLS and introduce our school to them. Denmark is one of my favorite countries in the world because there’s another name for it called “bike kingdom”. As a cyclist, I talked a lot about bike with Danish named Hansen. He seems not very excited about bike, but when he saw the beautiful soccer field in our school, he seems really excited. He said that it was one of the best soccer fields he had ever seen. We also have a look around the dorm where NFLS students live. It’s also my first time to see what NFLS dorm looks like. We also saw the new gym and play ping-pong with them. There was a lot of fun. When they went back and say goodbye to us, Hanson gave me a coin which called Krone. I will miss them and try my best to earn money in the future so that I can travel to Denmark!

another 10h physical activities

“Tomorrow will be sunny; the lowest temperatures will 16 degrees centigrade and highest will be 26 degrees centigrade. There’s almost no wind. This is today’s weather forecast.” What a wonderful weather. It’s really the best day for cycling. I think.
Cycling club members met at the school gate at 1:00pm on April 29, 2009. When I reach there at 12:50pm, I was wondering why there were only David and Jerry stayed at the school gate. David said that some were writing portfolio busily at home and some went to the net bar. I was really shocked. Those people preferred to stay at a dark room with smokes around them to a fresh, green nature. What are the problems to these teenagers?
We set out at 1:40pm and started the way to Xixia Mountain. Riding on the road, the only thing we could do is to step the pedal and listen to the symphony of the wind. But we also found some interesting things such as some people were collecting honey from the honeycomb. That seemed really scared and we were hit by tens of bees on that road when we riding. Luckily, helmet helped me a lot. Mr. Gallinalli was stopped at the end of the road and he was hit by the bees painfully. Then we went onto the NO.312 national road. I was really familiar with that road because it’s the same road which we went to Baohua Mountain last year. That was the toughest road on today’s trip. The dusty road was full of trucks and I even cannot breathe when a truck passed by. After we reached Xixia Mountain, we found nowhere to go up to the mountain. So we chose another way to Xianlin district. Xianlin was really pretty, like another small downtown in Nanjing. There are big supermarket, beautiful universities and high apartment. The roads were all straight and flat; just like racing roads. Then we decide to go to Purple Mountain to breathe the wonderful air David, Jerry and I even lost our way in Xianlin, but we found that Mr. Gallinali looked like a GPS. No matter where we were, he always can tell us where to go. As we were wondering if he lives here, he told us as a traveler, we have to use sun to estimate the directions. It’s really useful; I used sun and found Purple Mountain at last. We stopped at a small lake and took some beautiful pictures together. The scenes and air in Purple Mountain was perfect. When we went down to the Linggu temple, Mr. Gallinali bought some orange juice and a lamb shashliks and share with us. After supplied energy to our body, we went to a stone road in a small forest. Unluckily, Jerry’s tire blew out. We could only walk with our bike and found a place to fix the tire under the mountain about one kilometer away. While the old man fixing the tire. Several old men were chatting; Mr. Gallinali also joined their chatting. I was really shocked by the fluent Chinese Mr. Gallinali said.
Mr. Gallinali went back home earlier than us because he said that his wife was not at home and he had to take care of his baby. What a responsible father. During 5 hours riding. I relaxed myself and feel the spring. It’s really a good choice to biking as an physical exercise.

For physical activities, I still went to Impulse Health Center. There were so many kinds of things to play, so I chose to play squash. It’s not a popular sport in China but my mom like it. She can play very well. So playing with her has a lot of fun. I also met a very famous writer also playing squash there. We had a lot of fun. Tasting my sweat, waiting for my muscle. Exercises made me stronger.

religious service

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
I went into a church in Jiangsu road; I was really infected by the peaceful and warm atmosphere. A clergy was talking something on Holy Bible to those people on the seat with happy smile. Everyone sat there are all seems friendly. They listened to the clergy carefully and asked the clergy questions from time to time. Looking around the construction of the church; the lights on the wall made like candles are not very bright. They lighten the angel pictures on the wall and gave people a holy feeling. Those angels lined from two sides and in the middle there’s a big cross which is the symbol of Christian. The whole building is Gothic. The sharp top definitely showed that.
As a Christian, the lesson which the clergy taught was pretty simple for me. She mainly talked about the simplest information about Jesus and God. She also taught some difference between Orthodox, Catholicism and Protestantism. I was happy to see more and more people start to own a belief. It’s really important for Chinese people have a religion so that people can have a potential force and control themselves. People can live peacefully with less crimes.

Act in a performance(Fashion show)

I acted in the GCA fashion show on April 27, 2009. This was really unforgettable. I was the only male who acted as a female. My clothes were a white one piece dress with two sexy belts on my shoulder.
As a male, the dress was certainly unsuitable for me. But as the only slim one in my group, I threw caution to the wind. Because male has some differences on appearance, so I had to add something to change it. I bought two steamed bread and put on my chest. That was really uncomfortable because it always drops to my stomach and it became the most embarrassed thing happened on the stage. Luckily, few of them found it.
Having a glimpse of other models, some boys wore handsome jeans, suits and hat like cowboys. Some girls wore black stockings and sexy skirt. What am I? Just a crown. But on the stage, I just walk like mixture of a girl and a boy. I had a slim arm like girls, but as a cyclist, I had a big piece of muscle on my leg. I had butterflies in my stomach and even don’t know how to walk. I nearly slipped down when I go up to the stage because of the unsteady carpet. After all, I almost became a superstar. Tens of people ask me to take photos with them. That’s really funny.
From the fashion show, I learnt a lot. I know how difficult to make clothes. The design used us 8 hours in art class. We have to draw clothes in different angles. We also had to decide the color and the material of the clothes. Then we chose the best looking design, bought the material and then sent it to the dressmaker. As a model, I had to practice a lot of time on it.
Fashion was really a wonderful memory for me. I enjoyed it very much.

having Italian food with mom

I had a dinner with my mom in an Italian restaurant in new city mall. That was a quiet traditional Italian restaurant with Italian feeling furniture and decoration. We sat under a big umbrella and asked for several drinks and dessert first: Italian cold lemon juice and cappuccino coffee with small pancakes and a cup of ice cream. That was very nice. They are not only tasty, but also pretty good-looking.
After that, it’s time to have staple food. Talking about Italian food, the first idea jumped out of our mind is Spaghetti. In the menu, there are about twenty kinds of spaghettis. At last I chose the most classical one: spaghetti with Bolognese sauces. It was a kind of spaghetti poured on secret sauces. My mom ordered a steak as her staple food. The Filet steak with black pepper sauce seems really attractive and smells wonderful. There are also a bowl of borsch matched the steak. We ordered a small 9 inches pizza together. “The best Italian food should have a taste of mom. And here is where your mom stays”. Although I know it’s not the best Italian restaurant, but the colors are attractive and taste not bad. Compared to the German restaurant, it taste not so strong, it was a more soft taste and the environment are more familiar. Also the price of it is not too expensive.
In general, Italian food may more suitable for Chinese people. They tasted not so strong, not too rich or light. But really delicious.

Visitation the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders

“Forgivable, but unforgettable.” John H.D Rabe said. We have to remember what the Japanese did in 1937. This part of the history would never wash away from every Chinese’s heart.
On March 8, 2009, I went to the Memorial Hall of The Victims In Nanjing Massacre By Japanese Invaders. It located in the west of Nanjing and it’s really big. The building seems strange from outside. The main part of the Memorial Hall is the museum. The color inside use mainly uses black, gave people a depressive feeling. Inside of the museum, it’s not departs to a lot of rooms, but a long and winding road. Thousands of historical things which uses during the Japanese invading time were put inside a glass room. Hundreds of pictures used a more direct way to told us how cruel were those Japanese invaders. Some screens were put beside the word instruction and seems more vivid. When we went outside the museum, there’s a big square in front of us. There’s no grass or flowers in the square, but full of white cobblestones like bones which gave people a horrible feeling. Beside the stones, there were several sculptured made by Wuweishan stand there. From the anguished emotion of the people in the sculpture, I was shocked. Thinking of those images in the museum, how tragic!
The exhibition does not let us learn how to hate Japanese. We have to learn how to forgive people. If those Japanese invaders know how to forgive people and own a warmer heart, how could they find their hearts to kill thousands of people? Also, this unforgettable history remind us LAGGING BEHIND LEAVES one VULNERABLE to ATTACKS. As a Chinese, own love and struggle for China!

volunteer work

I had some volunteer work this winter holiday in Phoenix International Bookstore. It was the largest bookstore I have ever seen. The whole building are made of glass, there’s a Starbucks Coffee next to it and gave people a modern feeling. It has five floors. There are millions of books in it. Of course, it includes vast kinds of books: literature, social-science, life, cartoon, laws, business and even CDs. This bookstore is very different from other common bookstores like Xinhua bookstore. Its feature is that there are some other stores next to the bookshelves and they all have some connections to the kinds of books in this floor. For example: on the third floor is full of CDs, so there is an instrument store next to it.
I worked in an electric dictionary and study machine counter. It’s really boring to stand there for five hours because there isn’t much customs looking around the dictionary. So I chatted with the other salesmen in the counter. They all sells a study machine called Noah study machine. In the counter next to it, it’s their business rival called Ozing studying machine. I used to be the user of this study machine. So I’m very familiar to the functions in it. That’s was a good news for the salesman. Because I said I used to be a student in Nanjing Foreign Language School by using this study machine. They were so exciting and use me as their spokesman. As they introduced the machine, they also introduce me to those parents of children. That was really interesting. After standing for two hours before the counter, my leg started to turn sour. Luckily, there is a piano and some guitars. As an expert on playing piano, I went to enjoy myself for a while. I suddenly found there are so many people around me. Old women and man, parents with their kids, are all enjoy it. I never thought this even gave the store some business. A lot of parents prepare for let their child learn some instrument. So they asked for the introductions of those instruments.
The temperature was really high in the giant bookstore. So I went down to the ground floor, get some pocket money from my mom and asked a cup of icy Starbucks coffee. After hard work, that’s really delicious, because it contains our sweat. From the volunteer work, I learn a lot about the management of a bookstore, different design uses different house and how should sale a good. There are a lot to learn in a bookstore. I enjoy it.

physical activities for 10 hours

I often go to the Impulse Health Centre with my mom during weekend or holidays. This winter holiday, I almost go there everyday and do some exercises. That was an eight thousand square meter health center with hundreds of machines which can practice different parts of the body, such as running machines, cycling machines, boating machines and vast kinds of machines to practice different parts of muscles. On the other side of the health center are a squash room and two table tennis table. There’re also a hot yoga room, a private coach room, a swimming pool and a crush room in it. After practicing people usually go to take a shower in the health club. The whole center gave people an energetic feeling. The colors mainly use red and blue. On the wall there are big sporty pictures and things on it. For example, Above the Lance Armstrong riding picture, there’s a real bike hanging on the wall. The wall beside the table tennis table there’s a big picture with a sentence which I think it is the slogan of the health center. It says: exercises and make changes.
During this winter holiday, I went with my mom and did different exercises everyday. My mom is an expert on table tennis. I personally think I am also pretty good at playing table tennis. So we had a match. At last I lost. The total mark at last was two to three. Then I went into the squash room and pay squash for half an hour. It’s really hard to play and feel very tired after play it. The handle seems similar to the tennis handle, but it’s smaller and heavier. The ball is even smaller than the table tennis ball. But it’s much heavier. The next day, I went into a room with about thirty cycling machines. The coach rode at the front and does a lot of actions by the rock music. It’s a really interesting. For the third day, I swam in the swimming pool for about an hour. The swimming is not the standard swimming pool. It’s a 25m times 13m swimming pool. I used different swim style to swim across the swimming pool. The coach also teaches me how to swim faster and more efficiently. It’s really useful. The following day, I went to the muscle practicing machine place to practice different muscles on my body. When I went back home, painful from my muscle was really unbearable. The next day, I stayed at home and did not go to the health center. But after that day, I become much more energetic and running on the running machine for eight kilometers. I also went in to the hot yoga room and watch them for a while, but the temperature made me felt dead.
After several days physical practicing, I felt much better than before. I can be much more careful on study and eat more. I think physical activity is important in our day life.

club activities for 5 hours

We had an amazing trip on January 19, 2009. That was an exhausted day to most of guys, but it was also a challenge of us. It not only strong our bodies, but also let us know what is insist to do something and how to do it.
Eight of our members in cycling club rode to Baohua Mountain scenic spot in a windy day and the temperature is only about 5 degrees. We start our trip at the gate of NFLS gate at nine thirty. Everyone seems energetic and confident for the 85 kilometers way. At the very beginning, someone was too excited and rush to a speed about 40 kilometers per hours on the Beijing East Road. I know it was a silly thing to ride sudden fast and slow on the long cycling trip. To save our physical force and having a moderate speed and always keep it is much more intelligent than that. I didn’t ride at the front at first, but as the time went by, my “keep moderate speed” way showed its advantage. The upwind way to the Baohua Mountain is extremely unbearable. Although I controlled my speed at about only eighteen to twenty kilometers per hour, I could still felt my physical force lose quickly. The most horrible thing is that the whole way on G312 is uphill and downhill road. On my way of downhill road, it’s even not easy because of the wind, not to mention the uphill road.
When we just went out of Nanjing, we had a long rest next to a gas station because James was missing. He is always the last during the whole trip, so he has an interphone in his hand; also one of the fastest guys during the trip Bill has an interphone. But James even can’t talk with his interphone with Bill. Why? The only reason is that his distance is a kilometer far from us. How scared! Our cycling club leader David used cell phone to call him and knows he rode on the wrong way. After about twenty minutes, he arrived and we rode the left eight kilometers. When we got their, our first thing to do is to rush into the restaurant and eat like hungry wolves. I ordered three dishes and a bowl of noodle. But actually, it’s not a bowl of noodle, but a pan of noodle. I can eat nothing else after eat it.
After finished lunch, we went to the Baohua Mountain National Park. The ticket is so expensive so we only took some pictures as a memory and souvenirs. On our way back, my physical force recovered quickly and was full of energy. I kept my speed at about thirty to thirty-five kilometers per hour. Bill, and I were first three and other five were soon disappeared in our horizon, they were far back. I rode with pleasure, following the wind direction and feel the breeze touch my face. The red light of sunset was spectacular.
Eight-five kilometers distance gave me a sense of achievement and gave me a feeling of a man.