Eat at a Swiss Restaurant with My Friends

On Sunday, the 1st of March, I went to a Swiss restaurant called “Bebbis Restaurant” with my classmates Abby and Edward. We choose here because many classmates have fun here. Even though I have lived in Nanjing 4 years, I never know where it located in Nanjing. Luckily, Edward knows it. Edward bring Abby and I to the place that it’s in Xinjiekou. We arrived here at about six thirty.

In the restaurant, all the tables and chairs are made by wood. Also, there are some traditional music of Switzerland. Everything made us feel comfortable and concordant. Therefore the environment and the atmosphere here was fine, because we could quietly talk when we had meals and no noise here. I ordered Munich Baked Rice with pork sausage over baked with rice which was differing to the food I ate before. The taste and the manner were not the same as the Chinese traditional rice. I should used spoon instead of the chopsticks to eat the rice. Also the most important thing is the taste was totally different with Chinese food because the sour taste. However, I think the taste of rice with little sour and sweet is pretty good. I extremely like it. There’s also a fancy food called “Chocolate Fondue” which is chaffy dish with chocolate. We eat the chaffy dish with fruit. The taste was fresh and sweet. Very cool! The service there also very good, the waitress had good manners and I had a good time there with my friends.

I think I will recommend my friends to have meals there if they want to have a real experience of Swiss food because the fancy food here.

Volunteer Experience

Virtually, volunteer work was not very general in China, on the contrast, western country do this well. In my opinion, volunteer work was a very hallowed. No selfish, but love. We know that judge a student not only on the exam marks. It should be according to the students’ ability and integrated development. Thus, the Chinese education — putting more attention on the study and ignore the practice is very boring and insipid. Therefore, western people have chance to get the jobs more than Chinese people, and they can adapt the environment of the society better. As a result, I decided to do be a volunteer to make up the shortage.

Last year, I have been a volunteer for the drama “The Taming of the Shrew”. There were many students willing to help Ms. Hadley and Ms. Mistchrich. Hence, we have divided into three groups to do our job. Our group’s job was to paint the bricks on the wall. Firstly, we should find many smooth boards to build as a wall. Then, we carried the boards to the entrance of GCA. After that, we brushed white on the board as backdrop. Then we didn’t draw grey on the board mixed with dark brown and green until the board was dry, because we wanted to let the board looked like the old city walls. Then, we drew irregular quadrilateral in brownish-red to make it looked like bricks. In the end, we used grey again to make the “wall” look old. The process of painted was very difficult, because we are all green hands. We tried many times to mix colors, so we could make sure the wall looked like a real one. During our experience, we failed many times. Sometimes the color of the bricks was too dark; sometimes the color of the bricks was too light; sometimes the bricks looked too dirty; sometimes it looked too simple… There were too many mistakes. Luckily, we find the right way at last. Finally, we waited the wall dry, then, the walls were done. When we finish it, incredible, it really looked like an old wall. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It looked like the real one. All of us felt successful and proud. When I pass by the wall, I always proud to tell my friends that it was made by me!

The volunteer work I only did 3 times for the wall, but I learnt a lot from it. I know that we should do everything should step by step, and we should do things carefully and patiently. Pay more attention on the quality, not on the speed. No matter how small or big the thing is, we should attach importance to the weaknesses and put more effort on the practice. I realized the importance of volunteer work. It could help me to get more impression of the society; adapt the environment of society; know the status of society. I believed that I have learnt many useful skills during this volunteer work.


The wall on the side was made by us.

School Club

I join in two clubs this term when the new semester begins. They are dancing club and TV Series club. At the beginning, I was not very virtually unfamiliar with them. I was totally known about club before. It was mysterious and alluring to me. I am just very interested in them and join them. Nevertheless I am attracted with them gradually, and I began to learn something and gain the insights during and after the process of my experience.

In the TV Series club, Grace in 10-C and Candy in 10-E both are club leaders, and Ms. Hadley is our teacher. In this club, we can watch not only TV Series, but also Movies once a week. We always have a good time here because we can watch many kinds of TV Series and interesting movies, comedy, tragedy, funny, science fiction and so on. That’s a relaxed way to improve our English language, because when we watch the English movie, not only practice our listening, but also let us access the English language and absorb it rapidly. I learn a lot from this club because it can expand my mind, full of my knowledge, improve the level of education, also it can bring happiness to me. Every club member talks each other about the plot of the movie. Therefore, we have the same topic of conversation and have many like-minded friends in our life.

In the mean time, I join in the Dancing Club, and the club leader is Only in 11-C. There are many kind of dance. We can choose any one we want. The most different thing is our teachers also are students from grade 11 or 12, and they are very kind and friendly. On the first day, because I’m a green hand, I am very unconfident. However, no one laugh at me, and my “little teacher” teaches me patiently and encourages me when I am in a state of deep depression.Every Saturday, we practice 2 hours together and do some basic training by ourselves at home. Everything comes to my wait, because I gain a little achievement and my “little teacher” is satisfied with my progress. Furthermore, I gain the insight which is little strokes fell great oaks. My motto is I keep reminding myself that I am omnipotent. I believed that if I exert efforts and never give up, everything will be done.

Compare to these two clubs, I found join in the Designing club is more free, only in the important festivals we should rush the works, otherwise we can balance the time and design whatever we want. I remember we made the Christmas tree and designed the clothes for Fashion Show and achieve success. By the way, our designing leaders is Grade 11 Joy, she like the dear sister and organize us very well.

As a club member, I found some weaknesses and strengths. In TV Series Club, there are many people like to come, but the fixed time is too late and many of us should go home early. In Dancing Club, all of the club members love dancing very much. However, we should balance between study and club activity. I believed that I developed myself by the club activities. Also I hope I can learn more knowledge and skills from club afterwards and I love TV Series Club and Dancing Club. The diversity of consequent school clubs will be useful to our life in future.

we are the three designing club members in the same class

Physical Activity

Physical Activity for 30 hours

During the first two semester from 2008-2009, I have been one of the members of badminton club in GCA. At the beginning, I was not good at playing badminton, so I put much effort on it. Then long time ago, I make a great progress. Because of my effort, I have a chance to join the badminton team in GCA. Thus we have many activities. So, soon our team has a match between NIS, GCA and some other school in Xian Lin for charity. After that, we also have a competition in GCA with other students in GCA for two days. We have a special time to practice of badminton skill to improve our ability, so we always play badminton in gym of NFLS at night on Wednesday. In badminton club, there is one club leader, Leo Qin. Also, we have a teacher, Mr. Harris, to instruct us how to play badminton well and teach us the skill of playing badminton. Every weekend, all of team members should go to the gym of NNS playing badminton, and we always make a little progress every time.

The first competition is in the Xian Lin, and it is hold for charity by GCA, NIS and some other school. During the progress, I learn many things from my partner and opponents. For example, we should cooperate very well when double play and help each other; otherwise you will lose the game and played very tired. At the beginning, I am very nervous, because most of the opponents look stronger than me and older than me. I was challenged and stressed. To my surprise, the opponents are friendly. They know we are younger than them, so told us patiently when we don’t know the rule. However, they don’t look down upon us and treat us impartially. Luckily, we still win some plays and gain the admiration from the opponents. Time flies when we’re having fun .

At the weekend, we have a competition in GCA with many teachers and students. That should be easy for our team members to win the game. To my surprise, there are also some students and teachers play badminton very well. That’s should be a fierce rivalry. After this process, I gain the most impression insights which is we should attach importance to the weaknesses and put more effort on the practice. Finally, I get the 4th place in this game, and I have a good time here.

I join in the badminton club and play badminton only last for 4 months, but I learn a lot from it. I know do the exercises is good for our health and let us get stronger. Also, it is good for us to build a well-behaved image. I realize the importance of Personal Health and Physical Activity. However, there are also some things that I should balance. For example, I run forward faster than run back, so I should stand back. I believed I have learnt many useful skill during the badminton team and I love playing badminton.

Badminton Competition with NIS