Go to a performance（due by May 4）

Go to a performance
On January 17,2009, I went to Korean singers Super Junior’s music concert in Nanjing Olympic Center with my friends Penny and Edward. This concert was their first Asia tour, so it’s a very meaningful memory.
Super Junior is a famous boy singers group in Asia, all the members are Korean except HanKyung, he is Chinese. They are very hardworking and try their best to practise singing and dancing, that’s the reason why so many people love them. We can find precious spirits on them. They are all excellent youth. Another reason is that all the boy members can sing wonderfully and dance beautifully, also they are extremely handsome in Asian girls’ mind.
I went to their concert for an accident, Penny had two more tickets, so she asked Edward and me to go with her. That was an exciting night, everyone was screaming, I also enjoy the concert very much. When I saw my idol HeeChul dancing on the stage with such a short distance in front of me, I could even feel my blood rushing to my the top of my head. Sometimes I was also screaming with others. I love the concert very much and I enjoyed all the beautiful songs and exciting dances. Super Junior’s concert was extremely different with others because they didn’t use any dancing partners. Everyone on the huge stage was a member of the group, they could dance in coordination with each others. Also. I thought they could dance better than any dancing partners because they all have that talent and they were hardworking. That night was a memorable night that I will never forget.

Participate in a Service Activity organized by a GCA teacher（due by May 4）

Participate in a Service Activity organized by a GCA teacher
On April 11,2009, I wen to school to learn how to cook Western dessert under Ms. Bartell’s project. Our cooking teacher was Ms. Beath, she was a gentle woman and she taught us very carefully.
I learned a special dessert that day. It was named Bread and Butter Pudding, it was made of 2 eggs, 4 slices of bread (crusts off and buttered), 50g sugar, 300ml milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 50g raisins. First, I cut the bread into fingers,laid them in the bottom of a big glass dish, buttered side up and sprinkle in raisins and continue the layers. Secondly, I beat together the eggs and milk, add the sugar, vanilla extract and cinnamon, stired well and pour over the bread layers until it completely soak the bread. Thirdly, I let them to stand for approximately 1 hour so that bread soaked up all of the flavours. Fourthly, I put them into the microwave oven on medium power for 4-5 mins until it begins to set at the edges. Finally, I left it to cool down for about 5 minutes until it was completely done.
It was the best “little” project in Planning class, I think. We could have fun in it and also we could learn a Western dessert, who can believe it was a homework project! I really enjoyed it and my pudding tasted very nice, at least I like it.

Act in a performance（due by May 4）

Act in a performance
The last day of last year was a special day for me. On that day,drama Snow White directed by me had succeeded in GCA New Year Show(Art Festival). It was memorable for me because it was the first time I acted in formal show in GCA, and I directed this drama by overcoming a lot of challenges.
Our “Snow White” was put on in the NFLS theatre on December 31. Although some of us had made several mistakes, the whole drama was very successful. We all liked it very much. Howevr, only a few people knew how difficult we practised.
At first, our teacher told me to make a performance for the Art Festival because I am in charge of this part in my class. Almost every class prepared singing songs or dances, so I decided to make something speacial. After thinking a lot, I decided to make a drama that had enough roles for my classmates because we needed this in our portfolio and maybe this was the only chance for us. A drama looked better, but a bigger challenge lying in front of me. I chose nearly 2/3 of my classmates to act in Snow White, the more people we have, the more hard rehearse. I divided the actors into 3 groups, each group practised for one day, but I was the director, so I had to stay at school everyday and I usually left school at 9 p.m. I had thought of giving up this drama, but the spirit of perseverance encouraged me not to say I can’t easily. However, our hard work wasn’t useless, Snow White was shown wonderfully that morning, at least I thought it was.

Volunteer/Work Experience（due by May 4）

Volunteer/Work Experience
I was a stage backdrop artist in GCA Third Annual Fashion Show, and I got 5 hours of volunteer work intotal for doing this.
I stayed at school after class and did volunteer work everyday for a whole week. My duty was to design the font and draw them out, sometimes I even need to paint the letters and cut them. Someone said volunteer work was boring, but I don’t think so. I have found a lot of fun in it. I think I have a great talent in designing and drawing, I had much interest in them since I was very young, so when Joy from Grade 11 asked me to make the christmas tree in the end of last year, I agreed immediately, and several days ago when she came again and asked me to make the stage backdrop, I was also willing to do. First, we measured the cloth which we would change it into a backdrop and decided a suitable length and width for it to be a wonderful curtain. Then, we went to the shop and bought several pieces of big colourful paper to make the letters on the curtain. After that, we started to make the backdrop. The other two designers were thinking for a speacial font of the 3 biggest letters ”GCA” and they also asked me for advice, I thought for a while and came out with a great idea--- made the letters angular and have different width in different part. I quickly drew them out and they all loved the font very much. The other letters “FASHION SHOW” were designed by a certain teacher, I drew some of the letters and painted them.
When I saw the backdrop on April 27, the FASHION SHOW, I was so excited that the beautiful curtain was made by me. I was too proud to control myself not to say to others , “Look! that wonderful stage backdrop was made by me”. I thought it was a sense of accomplishment, it is very important in working. When we finish our work and the work is done well, we will be very proud of ourselves. That will make us have more motivations to do work well. 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 resbonsible in.
I also did volunteer work as a typist and I got 5 hours volunteer time for it. Consider to the work I got in Fashion Show, it was much more boring. The only thing I did was to sit in front of the computer and do the typing work. Before staring, I thought that can help me improve my speed of typing English words. However, I found I was wrong that my job was to type Chinese words, that meaned the work would be tougher and less intersting.. No matter how hard it would be, I had to get my volunteer time, no companies would sign for a strange student who did nothing for them. Of course I finished the boring typing work and got enough volunteer time. It is just like that I was a poor candidate, but I needed $5000 to rent an apartment. I had no work to do but boring typing work which I thought I would never do it, but I had to do it because I need money to find somewhere to live, it’s very important, so I did it and finished work well, then I got enough money. That’s it, sometimes we don’t have any interest in something but we are reasonable to do it, because we can get back profit.