Community Involvement & Employability Skills--volunteer for the drama

Volunteer / Work Experience (10 hours due by Feb. 8)

I was a volunteer for the basketball match of GCA and the drama named ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ last year with many students in the GCA, and two teachers lead us. One is our English teacher Ms. Mitschrich , the other is our Art teacher Ms. Hadley.

We always worked on the Saturday every week, there were many classmates worked together, the volunteer work can also make us become closer. Ms. Mitschrich and Ms. Hadley are very cute teacher, they always gave us lots of snacks as the prize for us, they made us very happy to work, and gave us energy. When we were tired , we ate some chocolate and then continue the work. We forgot having a rest.

As the volunteer of the basketball match of GCA, I drew a big poster of fighting in order to cheer our team up with my two classmates, we chose a big light yellow paper, and then we chose red pigment to write on our poster. We also wanted to draw with orange pigment but we couldn’t find. I thought that I can mix red and yellow to create orange. My group members also agreed with me. We first found the red and yellow pigment, after that one of my classmates took got some water for mixing. We finally get the orange, we felt very happy. We thought red matches yellow very well and it represents victory and energy and the poster can make the player become more excited. We worked like one person. We use black to draw a people shooting the ball. Few hours later, we finished the poster, we post the poster on the basketball court finally. I saw the importance of team spirit in that, the group is greater than the power of a person's strength.

In the following weeks, we worked for the set of the stage for the drama club. The play ‘The Taming of the Shrew ’. We made some bunches of leaves. First we cut some green paper to form like leaves. We use stapler and many staples to let the paper become curly we stapled the top of the leaves together to make the leave more 3D .Then we made more leaves together to form a tree. It spent us a lot time to finished.

During the volunteer work , I learned a lot. I know that all the drama play is not only the job for the actors. The people who in charge of the arrange of the set of the stage also very hard. They worked very hard. The work is not very easy. We always remember the name of the actors and always forget the people behind the stage . They are also heroes. I know how to work with others to increase the speed. When the play was shown, I said to my classmate proudly that the tree is made by myself! I feel very successful and happy. The play was excellent and it is full of our effort. The volunteer experience is unforgettable for me. I learnt a lot. I hope I can have more and more chances to work as a volunteer.

Personal Health--Physical Activities

PhysicalActivity (10 hours due by Feb. 8)


During this winter holiday, I attended the karate club in the gym of longjiang in Nanjing. Our club is in charge of studying and training the kungfu of karate, I have trained from 7 pm to 9 pm at night, four times a week. I have got 24 hours totally for my karate training.


Karate is a famous kungfu made from Japan and it has a long history. In Japan, many old men can play karate for protect themselves and keep fit. karate is a kind of fistfight, it has high kill and wound ,not similar like Chinese Kungfu. There are many competitions about karate in Japan. Now, many Chinese also learn karate to keep fit and learn to protect themselves. During the holiday, I went to learn the karate with my friend Anna , she is not the student in GCA, but we are good friend.


Learning karate is not a easy thing to do. The first day, I saw our coach ,he is a strong man, although he is very young, just 28 years old. He told us learn karate should have a strong physique necessary, so we had half an hour or 45 minutes to warm up and exercise our physical stamina on each class. Our coach is outgoing and humorous after class but strict during class. We shouldn’t talk to other member s and laugh when the coach talking and training. If you don’t obey the rule, you will be punished by coach for the extra exercise about physical stamina. We should wear our costume of karate correctly. If we wear the back of costume in the front, it’s a big problem. It means the coach is dead. In karate, respect the coach is very important for the trainee , if we do that, we shouldn’t be trained for that class, and arrive at class on time is also important.

In my first class, when I finished the physical stamina for 40 minutes, I was tired enough. After that I was training the normal actions about karate and kicked the bundle, I was too tired to stand up when I finished the class. I felt very hard to do karate but I have the confidence enough and never gave up easily. In the following class, coach taught us many manners if we met the danger how to use the karate to protect ourselves. I t helped me very much I think.

During this holiday, I attended the karate club and I have learned a lot from it. I have learned many knowledge and history about karate and have learned many ways to protect myself by use karate. Also, do karate can keep fit and lose our weight. In this holiday, I lost 2 kg for doing karate.

After the new term begins, I will do the karate every week, keep doing karate to exercise and keep healthy. I believe I can do karate more and more better. I also believe that it will help me a lot in my life.




















In my first class, when I finished the physical stamina for 40 minutes, I was tired enough. After that I was training the normal actions about karate and kicked the bundle, I was too tired to stand up when I finished the class. I felt very hard to do karate but I have the confidence enough and never gave up easily. In the following class, coach taught us many manners if we met the danger how to use the karate to protect ourselves. I t helped me very much I think.

During this holiday, I attended the karate club and I have learned a lot from it. I have learned many knowledge and history about karate and have learned many ways to protect myself by use karate. Also, do karate can keep fit and lose our weight. In this holiday, I lost 2 kg for doing karate.

After the new term begins, I will do the karate every week, keep doing karate to exercise and keep healthy. I believe I can do karate more and more better. I also believe that it will help me a lot in my life.

Education & Career Planning--School Club/Organization

School club/Organization(due by Feb.8)

Last term , during 2008-2009, I attended the piano club as my after-school activities in GCA. Our club is in charge of learning and playing piano at noon and after school twice a week. I have got 12 hours learning and playing piano totally. I’m very glad to play the piano.

Our leader is my classmate Alex. He is a musical boy and can play many musical instrument. He is proud of piano because he has played piano more than 10 years, and achieved many honors of piano competitions .Also, he is my good friend and I trust him very much. Our another leader is Raymond from 11-C, he is a boy who can play the piano very well. He is famous playing the piano in GCA . He has attended many shows in GCA, too. They are good partner. They leaded us for a term , and I have learnt many from them.

I was interested in playing the piano, but I didn’t know how to play piano before. When I looked people can play many very graceful songs, I admired them very much. Alex told me that to have the interest in playing the piano is very important if you want to learn and play the piano. He taught me how to use the each part of the piano to play songs. After few lessons , he taught me two easy songs, but I still thought they were very difficult. Few lessons later, I felt very boring to play that two songs and I didn’t want to play any more. Alex said that playing the piano is a little boring because you need to practice again and again , if you want to play the piano well , you must insist for exercise and never give up easily. When I heard from him I felt that play the piano is not a easy thing. I should insist to exercise that I can play well, like our leader Alex. He has insisted never give up easily.

In our club, everybody like a family. We learnt together, and not mess. We encouraged each other and always has some funny things in our club. Our club is very harmonious and many people can play the piano before, they proved their abilities. Some people cannot play the piano like me, we have learned many things about piano and can play some easy songs during the training in the piano club of GCA. I want to say ‘thanks’ to our leader because they were very patient to us, and I have learnt many from them and got closer with other members in the piano clubs, made some new friends.

Playing the piano is good for prove our characteristic, it can made us more elegant and peaceful. I have known do everything is not a easy thing, so we should insist for a long time and never give up easily. I will learn to piano insist in the future. I’m willing to attend the club in GCA like this in the future and I know I will do better and better.