GCA ~~

I came to GCA in the September of 2008. I graduated from my middle school--NFLS and I wondered to go to a school which has lots of activities. Luckily, I found GCA. I made lots of friends here. GCA is really a family and everyone here are very helpful and friendly. The teachers here are more understandable and they really helped me a lot~~



The Taming of the Shrew~

Fashion Show~

10--C ---My Family ~~

I am in 10C~I always thought that our class is the best class among all the classes in grade 10~In our class, each student always thinks about the class’s benefit but not theirs. We are studying really hard and all of us want a grateful future. I want to thank them~They taught me a lot. Thank you~~

My classmates Vanessa, Viola, Evelyn and me~

My best friend Vanessa and me~

This is my classmates and me~

This is all of 10-C~

My class~

The best class of the Grade 10~~

I love 10-C!!

Why Math (Math Viedo)

Community Involvement & Employability Skills--volunteer for the fashion show and the bookshop

10 hours due by May 4

I was a stage backdrop artist and helped to take teachers and parents to the Third Annual Fashion Show in GCA at night, and I got 5 hours of volunteer work for doing these work totally.

In the afternoon of the fashion show, Ms.Hadley gave our volunteers a big black curtain. We need to fix up the letters on it. The letters were done by some volunteer before. Letters were big, that is very difficult for us to do. First, we think about to use the double side tape, but it doesn’t have mucosity. Then we asked for Ms.Hadley to gave us some staplers. We use the staplers to fix up the letters. The curtain was so big, it cost us a lot of time to finish. When we finish our work and the work is done well, we will be very proud of ourselves. I was tired but however, I was happy. At night, many teachers and students with their parents come to see this fashion show. I was the volunteer, I was polite enough leading all the people to their own seats. When the show began, all of us were excited. All the models were charming enough, and they were successful to show themselves in this fashion show.

During the May holiday, on the afternoon of April 30th, I also did some volunteer work in the bookshop where on the Beijing Road and I got 5 and an half hours volunteer time for it.

I went to bookshop to help them carry and classify the new books, from 12:30pm to 6:00pm. At the beginning, I carried dozens of books into the bookshop, and then I classify these books. It was a difficult job to do, because books were in a mess, we should divided these books into many different kinds –literature, romance, philosophical, etc, and some different language of books. Our have three clerk and I to fix up these books, we divided into two groups, two people each group. I classify books, and the other clerk recorded the name of each book. Few hours later, we put all the new books we finished on the bookshelf, at about 6:00pm, I have finished my duty of volunteer. My arm was aching enough, but I was also happy. When I saw the books on the bookshelf, I could thought ” that wonderful books was classify and fix up by me”. It was a sense of proud.

I think doing volunteer work is very useful in our future life, it is the best way to experience what taking a job is like and what will we be responsible in. We shouldn’t be afraid of the difficulties. We need to face these difficulties more confidently. It will help us to overcome them and achieve our own goals.

Public Events

On February 2nd 2009, My mother and I went to Fu Zimiao to see the public lantern show. This lantern show was in the evening, from 7:00pm.to 10: 00pm. In the Spring Festival, that Public Show was opened to everyone, each person should pay 40 RMB to see the show.

I have heard from my friends that lantern show in Fu Zimiao was fantastic and many people went there, also that time was the Spring Festival, I have enough time to go there, so I chose that exhibition to see.

At 8:00pm, we arrived there and I saw many bright lanterns, they were magnificent and attractive. The night scene is charming enough, and gave me the feeling of flourishing and the scene of bustle and excitement in the Spring Festival. There are so many people here and I am afraid that I will fall down any time.

There are many kinds of lanterns there, some lantern looked like people and some lanterns looked like animals, they all very grateful. The Lantern show is the traditional activity that China had for thousands of years. There is another reason that I went there. That’s to know more about the Chinese culture. As a Chinese, it is our responsibility to know about our own culture.

I really like this exhibition, it attracted me a lot. It represent the culture of China . It has a high value of art. This experience I will never forget , I wonder to see this exhibition next year.

Participate in a Service Activity organized by a GCA teacher

On the morning of the 18th in April, each group of fundraising should send one or two people to follow some French exchange students in NFLS or some teachers in GCA to make some cuisine. Amy and I went to GCA for my group on that morning. Our cooking project was Muffins of banana and chocolate. There were 10 members in our group, and we came from different classes in Grade 10. Melissa is the French student who was in charge of teaching us how to make muffins. She is a lively girl. At the beginning, some of us went to buy some material for this cooking. We needed to buy 6 bananas, 4 eggs, 160g of butter which should be saltish, 140g of brown sugar, 300g of flour, 2 packets of yeast, two boxes of chocolate. Then we used that to make 10 to 12 muffins.

We spent nearly one and an half hour to buy all of things we needed. Then we came back to GCA and we started cooking. First, we took a big bowl and mixed sugar and butter until the mixture became a kind of cream. Second, we smashed the bananas and added them with the eggs to the first mixture and stirred them up. Then, little by little, we added the flour. The cream shouldn’t have hard small things, and the mixture must be really smooth, and at the same time, we should add the yeast too. Later, with small cake pans, we used our fingers to butter them. Melissa told us we mustn’t skip that part and the layer of butter in the cake pans was important, because when the cakes were being cooked, they shouldn’t stick in the bottom. We put one layer of the mixture we had made before, and in the middle we put 5 pieces of chocolate and then another layer of the mixture. It mustn’t overcome the cake pans, just cover 3/4. At last, we put them in the oven. It was finished.20 minutes later that the muffins were took away from the oven. They smelled good, and I tasted one--fantastic~

I felt a little tired to make them, however, it was worth. I love cooking, and I want to get more chances like that. During this cooking, I began to know the importance of the teamwork. Teamwork is very important. Everybody knows we need to do a good cuisine, but how can we do it? There are 10 members in our group. If we cooperate carefully, we can get the success easily. We cooperate, so we have made a good cuisine.

Religion Service

On the afternoon of December 13th, my classmates, my planning teacher Ms. Bartell and I went to the Christ church on Mochou Road. On that day, we met at 2:00pm, at the gate of the church. I saw many people there. On that day, the church was celebrating the western festival –Christmas, so many Christian went there to celebrate the festival. They convened the meeting, and everyone attend. Also, that is the reason why I chose this religion because I haven’t seen the meeting of the Christ. I was too curiously to see.

At the beginning, we entered the church, I found the church was magnificent. Every ornament is golden, it gave me a feeling of dignity. When everyone sat down, the main nuns leaded us to sing. it was a very strange song. It is long and I didn’t know what she sang and what it meant. I think maybe it was the own language of Christ. Then some nuns read some words, everyone repeat following. That words about Christ and Christmas.

In fact, I feel a little boring, and I don’t like it. The reason is I just read the article following the nuns and listening to the nuns telling us about the God and the Christ all the time. I nearly was asleep, however, many Christian were listen with relish. When I went there, I thought the Christian and nuns might take a party to celebrate the festival, but in fact , they just read the scripture, which are long and boring.

Few hours later, they finished the meeting, and everyone left the Church. If I can choose, I won’t go there again. However, this experience is hard to forget.It makes me know more about the western religion, and how to do the religious service in a church.