Lantern Festival

In Chinese calendar, fifteenth January, it is Lantern Festival. It is a Chinese traditional festival. I am a GCA student who lives in Nanjing. Nanjing has a place called Confucius Temple. It was a place for testing people to be official in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. When the Lantern Festival coming, there are always have many beautiful Chinese lanterns in there.

People who live in Nanjing have the habit, when the Lantern Festival comes, the evening of this day must go to Confucius Temple to visit it. Confucius temple always has a lot of people that night. It is almost 400000 people.

I went there with my mother and my father. When we reached Confucius temple, it is about 9 p.m. The population become less than before, but still a lot.

The Qinghuai River is through Confucius temple. We went along the river. There are many beautiful lanterns beside the river and also has a lot of water lanterns. I like the lanterns beside the river. It is total 12 lanterns. There are very light and every lantern has a woman and a poem to describe this woman write on it. The 12 women are 12 beauties of Junling. It is full of local characteristics. We found some stores sold the traditional Chinese lanterns. Doing those lanterns is an exquisite work so the prices of those lanterns are expensive.
We walked along the river until 11 o'clock however people became lots. Finally, we took pictures each other. How a good night!

Physical activities

In this term, I become a high school student. I think I should go to school by myself, even in the rain day. I have two choices. There are ride a bike or take the bus.
On the way of my home to GCA do not have nonstop bus. The best line of bus go to GCA is 40. When I go to the nearest bus station, I need to walk about 15 minutes to the bus station. The tome of me on the bus is about 10 minutes. When I get off the bus, I also need to takes 10 or 15 minutes to walk to school. If I ride a bike to school, just need 25 minutes. It is about 10 minutes shorter than take the bus. I also can sleep more ten minutes than before.
The road from my home to school do mot have many people. I can ride safe and quickly. The view of this way from my home to GCA is beautiful and the road is clear. Many trees are beside the road. On my way to school，I can meet my classmates. At the beginning，I think my home is far away from GCA. One day，I find Parker also go same way with me. Another day，when I on my way to go home，I find 10-F Cindy also go same way with me. Her home is not far from my home. This makes me happy. It means I can have a partner on my way to go to school. At last month, Zoe starts to ride bike to school. Her home is so far away from GCA. When she goes to GCA, she needs ride about an hour! She goes same way with me. We go home together on every Thursday or Friday. Sometimes, I also ride with Rena or Lucy however we just have one part of same way. When we riding, we can talk each other and makes the way back to home have more fun.
When the temperature not below than -2c, I also ride a bike to school in winter. At the beginning, I feel cold. When I arrive in GCA, I feel warm and even hot. I often want to get off my wadded jacket. Riding bike is one of best physical activities. It makes me practice my body when I go to school. I think it is can save time. I do not need use other time to do physical activities.
When I ride a bike to my school on the morning，I always feel exciting. I am not feeling sleepy and tired. This can help me have enough energy for listen to teacher carefully and look happy everyday.
I believe “Life depends on sports.” I will keep riding bike to school. I like it however I think I need more physical activities. I will increase some other activities. Skipping is maybe a better choice. It can practice my jump ability and make my height growth.

Dancing club

I join in dancing club is about five months. The club let me learn more.
At the beginning, I am not really wanted to join the dancing club. I have studied physical ballet about two years and eurythmics about one year between 6 years old and 9 years old. I think dance is difficult for me. I can’t do it however my friends Zoe and Rena want to study this, so I also joined the dancing club. We study the street dance. It is a kind of dance from America. I study Hip-Hop. It is a type of street dances. It is need more power and energy. I have never learned Hip-Hop before. It will be a challenge for me.

The teacher who teaches Hip-Hop in this club is a Grade 12 student in GCA. She is called Mona. She learns Hip-Hop about two years. At the beginning, I study hip-hop every Saturday, 3 p.m.-5 p.m. She teaches carefully and she has good-tempered. I like her to teach me.

After one and half months, she told us, we had a chance to performance in Sports Meeting. She can teach us a whole dance. We are very happy and exciting. She taught us on Nation holidays and every day after school. I studied carefully and practice hard. I tried my best to make myself confident enough and looks have more power. I practiced this in gym every day after school until 6:30 p.m. Mona was always the last person to leave. When we finished practices, our clothes always became wet. Before the day of our performance day, I feel nervous and exciting about it. I can not sleep on the night before that day. Before we go to the stage, Mona told us do not nervous about it. When I go on the stage, I try my best to make myself do mot look nervous. Finally, our performance is successful.

After this, I surge of interest in Hip-Hop. When I have free time, I will go to gym to practice my dance with Zoe and Rena. I always see movie about Hip-Hop on TV or Internet. I watch those carefully and then try my best to make dance mimic what people in the movie dance. I hope this can help me improve my dance. In fact, I have rapid progress on Hip-Hop. In November and December, I dance on the stage twice. I am confident enough to dance on the stage now.

Mona does not have much time to teach me because she needs to prepare to go to Canadian university now. I feel a little lost, but I still practice hard. I remember what Mona said to me before, “You have the potential. You have enough energy. You can dance Hip-Hop better!” When the summer holidays come, I need find other person to teach me Hip-Hop however I will try my best. I plan study in Crazy Tempo. I hope, when I back to school after summer, I will have better dancing and will become GCA Dancing Club Hip-Hop eligible successor.

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