Physical activity

Physical activity
Actually, we always do some exercises when the time that we stay in school. For example, we usually play basketball, dancing and so on. But when we have holidays, we often choose to lie on our lovely bed for the whole day even it is a beautiful day. But, because of this homework, we have to go outside and breathe the fresh air. I think Mrs. Mandy had known that we may spend all the time to sleep. So, we have to do Physical activity…….
Well, the time is not very long. We only need to do 10 hours activity and I have done it. The first date was January 25th, Sunday.
It took me 1 hour to find my basketball, whatever, I found it. I went to the basketball field and no one was playing ball there. Because I live far away with my classmates so I just could play basketball by myself. I decided to play 2 hours and I used these two hours to practice my basketball skills. By the way, I called my mother to come to see me any time she wanted. Actually, I haven’t played basketball for many months. ONLY(the student from Grade 11) would call me to dance everyday after school. Step by step, I didn’t well at basketball any more..... When I decided to practice basketball, I found that it was too late. So I gave up. Now I seldom play basketball. The second date was January 27th, Tuesday. This time, there were some teenagers playing basketball. So I joined them, then, we divided us to 2 groups and each team had 3 people. So the match started. I found the field was very slippery. You will slip if you don’t be careful. We played ball until I couldn’t see the ball clearly (about 6 o’clock p.m.). So I said time was late and left. When I picked up my things they told me they would play here tomorrow too, they asked me if I wanted to come tomorrow, I agreed. Next day, I got up at 11 o’clock. After lunch I went to the field at 2 o’clock. They had arrived there, this time we changed group members. I got 2 stronger teammates, although they were stronger than me but my skill was better than them. So I always controlled the ball and found a chance to pass my ball to my teammate who was closer to the basket, then he could throw the ball into the basket easily.
Time went very fast; I couldn’t see the ball again. Because of the sun went away……then I said good bye to my teammates and another team. Because this was my last time to play basketball. From January 25th to January 29th I had played basketball for 10 hours. I found that my skill was not too bad; I would try to play basketball if I really felt tired in practicing dancing. That was my 10 hours Physical activity. I got more friends from that, I thought it was good.

Dancing club

Dancing club


When I still studied in ESL class, I had joined the Dancing club. At that time I was only a student who didn’t know what was dancing at all. I just remembered that every Saturday I would to go school to learn Breaking dance with ONLY(the student from Grade 11), although he also was not very good at it at that time, but better than me.
This year is my second year in dancing club and I really enjoy it a lot. But there are something changes in this year. Some members left the GCA or Dancing club. ONLY tells me that I also need to teach students this year.
In this New Year’s holiday, we had 4 time activities. Each time we practiced dancing together we really got a lot fun and learned a lot. On January 2nd that was the first day we hold activity in holiday. Actually, most of us had lay on our own lovely bed for many days, I guessed nobody want to move any step. We reviewed some simple TOP ROCK and FOOT WORK. They are basic steps in breaking dance, but they are not easy to do, you must match your steps with music and you should spend some time to listen the breaking music. For the first day, we spent more time to talk with each other than practice. Two hours later, we finished our first activity day.
January 6th was the second activity day; we would pay attention on some difficult Freeze poses and Combos. ONLY and me found that our breaking members didn’t enough power to hold their body. So we would make a plan to help them to improve their power. Basically, we would do 50 push-ups and running. Although it was difficult to finish, but we still felt happy. At the end, ONLY said we would have a dancing battle next time. Our dancing club would battle with other schools’ dancing teams. We all felt exciting; it was a good chance to show GCA’s dancing skill.
On the battle day, ONLY called me to help him prepared the music; we came to the battle place early. After we finished prepare everything the battle started, there were four teams total.
Each team had 5—7 people and they were not only breaking dancers some of them were poppers and hip-hop dancers. In our breaking battle, each of us had a piece of paper. And on the paper there was a number, a people would pick 2 numbers. So the two breaking dancers who had these two numbers would battle with each other. The match was great and successfully, NLFS-GCA won the Breaking and Jazz part but we didn’t win the Popping part. Whatever we really enjoyed it and we got more friends. From this battle we realized that we need to practice our dance harder to make the Dancing club stronger.

Volunteer work

Volunteer work
This is a chance for Only(the student from Grade 11) and me to show our dancing skill to a big company in Nanjing called WUXIN. This is a company that sells the electronic products. 21st January was their own festival. Because their company has came into existence for 10 years. So their manager found us to join their show. (Because all the professional dancers always need money to pay for their dancing, but we were volunteers, we were free.)
The volunteer work spent us 2 days to finish. On the first day, we need to taught three young workers dancing, because two people (Only and me) were not enough for a great show. The three guys were all 20+ years old, so it was not to difficult to talk with them. One of these three guys even learned a bit dancing before, but he was not very good at it. So we decided to teach them some simple pose, such as Freeze and Nike. Freeze means use your hands and head to hold your all body. Nike means use your one hand to up your whole body and at the same time you put your legs like a Nike symbol. Let’s me show you some pictures. At the end, we finished our design part and we only need to practice it tomorrow.

The second day, we would stand on the stage to show our result. Our dancing show had 5minutes long. Actually, the three young workers felt a bit nervous. Because the stage would be on the street .But Only and me didn't feel nervous. Maybe we have used to perform in front of a lot audience. Whatever, we must to stand on the stage, nervous was useless. After some short encourage words we went to the stage. Our plan was we danced together at first. This part was called TOPROCK and UPROCK which represent some simple body language and the dancing show would start now. Then Only and me would solo by ourselves, after our solo the three guys would show their part. I thought they must complain these three minutes were very long. Because of the nervous, they had some mistakes but it didn’t matter. We finished our program on time; there were other great shows next.
After the show we also helped the workers to clean the stage, but I didn’t understand that the two workers didn’t agree us to take photo with them, I had no idea. So we just took photo with one of them.Even the volunteer work only had 5 hours but I got many things in my mind. I understood it is not an easy work to teach somebody, you need a lot patient. From this volunteer work I realized that teacher is a difficult work. Much harder than us, teachers must keep teaching for many years, we should respect our teachers.