CLUB ACTIVITY

In GCA, there are many clubs. It is very important for us to have some hobbies after school. These clubs can help us to learn a lot and also make our after-school life more interesting. I made many new friends in my club, too.
At the beginning of last term, when I came to GCA, I was interested in these clubs. I saw there were many students join in TV Series Club, I was attracted about it. I also found that the leaders of this club Candy in 10-E and Grace in 10 were very friendly and funny, so I joined this club and also asked many of my friends to join. One of my favorite teachers Ms. Hadley was manage our club. It makes me so happy.
At club first meeting, Candy and Grace introduced this club and asked us to write down our cell phone numbers. After that, we sated in Art room and watched “Prison Break”. Every one was happy that day and could not wait for next meeting. From 19th of September in 2008to 18th of November in 2008 I had gone to the club 6 times and watched movie, TV series and videos. I have watched Prison Break and The Simpsons at TV club. These two are the typical American TV programs. We can learn not only the culture but also the language of America from American TV programs. Watching TV programs is a good way to learn the culture and language of a country. It is less boring than reading the books about the culture.
Number of our club members became smaller and smaller with time. However, I always went to the club and enjoyed that time because I love watching TV series and love staying with my friends.
The TV series club gives us an opportunity to get close to the native culture and language of United States. It is also a place to relax ourselves from the pressure of the study. I hope we can watch more wonderful TV series and movies this term.
Here are the photo and certifications.

MY BASKETBALL LIFE

I have many hobbies, such as playing computer, reading books and eating chocolates. However, playing basketball is my favorite hobby. Playing basketball has many advantages. When you play it, your whole body will exercise. You will get more oxygen, too. It is good for your brain. When I watch NBA basketball matches, I was so excited. When they dunk, they burn their passion. I admire them very. I also want to become tall and tall, so I spend lots of time playing basketball with my friends. In our class, we hold a basketball team. In our basketball team, we have Center Charlie, Power Forward Avery, Small Forward Mike and Chester, Shooting Guard Claude, Joe, King and me and Point Guard Erik and William. We often play basketball together.
On 6th of February in 2009, we played together at school for 4hours. Our leader Erik called everybody before we went to school. We met there at 1 p.m. We are all excited and could not wait to play. We played with one of Erik’s classmate in middle school. On that day, Erik’s state was quite good, and he had a pretty high shot probability. Later, some other grade 10 or 11 students in Nanjing Foreign Language School came and played with us. We divided ourselves into 3 groups. Erik was unlucky to be with 2 fat boys. However, they played hard and won a lot. At the beginning, I was on fire. I shot 3 three-point balls in 1 minute. After I scored 9, everyone was looking at me and surprised. HaHa!!! I was very happy.
Our team mates are all from my class, and our class has the most people to play basketball of all the classes in grade 10. Our teammates teach together, enjoy basketball, improve our skills and learn team spirit. It is a very good way for us to learn team work. Also, we can improve our body. I hope our team will be better and better! If you want to play basketball with us, COME ON!!!

Here are the photos and verifications.

When I was young, I was very thin and weak. I have a dream that I want to become strong. I have a dream that I can use my body to resist up the whole world. This winter holiday, I spent a lot of time building body. I spent about 10 hours on it. My mum supported me very much. Every time I played dumbbell at home, she always looked at me and she worried that I would hurt myself. Now I get more muscle than before. I will insist that and never give up. I believe that one day, I will be able to resist up the whole world.
Here are the photos.

MY VOLUNTEER WORK

On the afternoon of January 20th, I went to the neighborhood community of the street with Avery. We did some volunteer jobs there. It is special day because on that day they helped for a conference with the disabled people. We were tired to help the work there to arrange the meeting room, and help them clean it after the conference.

I told to the workers in the neighborhood community our idea before we went there, they were very happy because they thought that it was a meaningful thing. At 1 p.m., we went there and found the chairman of the neighborhood community. She took us to the meeting room and told us what we should do to prepare for the meeting. Then we started our job. We turned on the air condition to make the room warm and did some cleaning. After we finished, we went and stood at the gate of the neighborhood committee and told the people who came to the conference where the meeting room was. Because the people who took part in the conference were all the disabled people, they might have difficulty walking upstairs. We helped them go to the meeting room. During the conference, we gave people cups of tea and helped the staffs hand out the fruits that the neighborhood committee gave to the disabled people as presents. We also talked to them, listened their stories. After the meeting, we swept and mopped the floor and also cleaned the table. At last, we moved the chairs to the 1st floor, we are tired but happy. Workers in the neighborhood community were grateful to our help, they gave us some candies as present. We leave at 5 p.m. with the setting sun.

I learned a lot from the volunteer work. It is very important for us to know about the disabled people. During the conference some disabled people told us their stories and we thought a lot about it. In this neighborhood community there are many disabled people, in our city there many neighborhood communities like this, so there are thousands of disabled people need our help. What can we do for them? Every time I gave the cup of tea to them, they always said “Thank you!” to me. When I was talking, they always looked carefully at me. They tried their best to respect me, then I understood what we can do for them. It is to respect them, use our hearts to respect them. For working, I also learned a lot. If you work hard, people will be grateful to you.

Thank you for them to give me this chance to do volunteer work for disabled people. It is meaningful and I will never forget.

I also did volunteer work in Nanjing Jingubang Company for 6 hours and learned a lot. Here is the the verifications.