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.

Having German food in Secco

We went to a German restaurant called Secco in December 18th 2008. About eighteen students from GCA 10-D and 4 students from 12-D met in Kunlun road gate No.3 at half past six.
When we went into the restaurant, I was shocked by the strong Germen feeling. The main colors for the decoration in Secco were red and black. The lights are red. They’re not bright at all. The whole room seems a bit dark, but on the table, there’s a small red candle, gave people a romantic feeling.
The menu in Secco is very different from menu in most Chinese restaurant. There are only two main dishes written on a piece of paper. Another thick menu were beers and desserts menu, there’re more than two hundred kind of beverages in it, really amazing. I chose a cup of beer together with grapefruit juice. I forgot the professional name of it, but it really tastes good: not as bitter as black beer, a little sweet and has grapefruit tastes.
I chose a set meal with a small steak, some French goose livers, some traditional Italian cucumber and a potato pie. The species were poured at the edge of the plate and seems like a moon. The plate is beautiful and attractive. My slaver streamed in my mouth and I can’t wait to eat it. Although it tastes so-so, but the environment in the restaurant is more important than the food, I think.
It is a cultural experience for me. I wish one day I can have a girlfriend and take her to have candle dinner in Secco.

critique the exhibition of Wuweishan's sculptures

The title of the sculpture is "Laozi". The famous artist Wuweishan made it in 2006. The artist used soil to make it. After it finished, he put copper into it and made the color bronze. When you stand near it, you may find that the face isn't meticulous. The eyes are even not the same size. The subject of the artwork is the empty body, I think. People can even stand inside his stomach because the emptied things inside. The artist wrote some words which are written by Laozi. It’s meaningful because it represents he is “满腹经纶”which means there’s a lot of knowledge inside his body.
This artwork gave me a shock. It isn’t like any other famous sculpture such as Michelangelo or Augeuste Rodin’s. Their sculptures are all exquisite. It seems white and smooth. But looking Wuweishan’s sculpture, although it’s not exquisite at all, even you can say it’s rough. But from the irregular lines on the sculpture face, we can feel the old age of Laozi, from the profound eyes, it reflected how many books Laozi read. It made me think about Chinese impressionistic pictures, such as Wudaozi. Many of the pictures only use a short time to complete it. The artist uses brush to show their feelings on the paper. It’s a kind of abstraction. The artist doesn’t want to show the appearance of Laozi from the sculpture, but want to show his knowledge by emotion and action.
I like this sculpture very much. It’s imaginative and attractive. Especially the empty body with Laozi’s famous sentences on it which shows the eruditeness of Laozi. It’s imaginative. But the face is more important. The lines on the face actively show the emotion of Laozi. Also, I think other people will like because this impressionistic sculpture will gave people boundless imagine space. Every people see it may have thousands of thoughts. That’s why it’s attractive, I think.