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Primary School and other works

I did some kinds of the volunteer works this term. This time was a little different. Most of the works were teaching English. There also had a work which was servicing the parents in the parents and teachers meeting. This was because of the Marketing team. I had already experienced twice before so I knew how to do that well. This could give me more experiences and improve my community skills.

One of the volunteer works was the class activity. On April 1st, we went to Beijing East Road Primary school to teach English. That was an afternoon. The students were grade 5 and very excited to let us teach them. On the way to the primary school, I was thinking about how to make those students keep quiet and study carefully because most of the pupils were quite naughty and talkative in my mind, but I was wrong. The one I taught was a very nice girl. She was polite and concentrated. She paid attention to every word I said. Her desk mate was good too. They seemed to have a competition on spelling the countries names I had gave them. I was surprised that those students were so hard-working. Many other students were not as good as this girl. The boys sat in front of the girl always wanted to play card game. They did not want study at all and asked others to play card with them. This girl was learning quietly when others yelled to play the cards. She spelled again and again on the words she could not remember. She was practicing. I told her to remember the all the words from easy to hard in the following days. She was glad to do that. She also took out her English book and read the articles. She asked me to correct the mistakes she made. I thought she must be a good leader in her class.

If every one in her class is like her, this class will be the best class. This was really a great experience and I gained a lot. Students must keep a balance between study and play. People can play happily only when they had finished their works. So are students. I found out the advantages of both individual and collaborative works. Work individually could make things clear and let every one understand the whole thing. Work with someone else can also help a lot. For example, some students were too noisy and did not want to study, we could ask them to be quiet together so it would not be a mess. They could hardly behave badly when facing so many people. The teaching was successful. This experience could make me know about how to be a good teacher and the skills to teach students. It was good to me if I want to be a teacher in the future. It also improve the cooperate skills of the whole class.

I also went to my dad’s company to teach some of the workers English. They were good and willing to improve their English. I was impressed by those people.

These volunteer works made me feel great and I was glad I had these experiences.

Christmas Concert

On December 31, GCA held up a Christmas concert on the third floor of cafeteria. We were all very excited about it and we were looking forward to seeing some great shows.

There was another reason to be excited for me was that I was going to have a performance with my friends this night. I was not only happy but also very nervous. Waiting for the show was the most difficult thing and I was trembling a little bit when I was waiting. I told my partners to calm down and myself too.

It was the time for us to show. We sang the famous Christmas song called “Winter Wonderland” and the most important part was our dancing. We spent much time on thinking about the dance and practiced for a few weeks. It made us to change the steps again and again. We were dead if we did not succeed. When I stepped onto the stage I feel the lights were a bit dazzling but soon I adapted to them and I felt better. There were so many people looking at us and waiting for us. We just started singing and dancing happily. I think we did a good job and it was enough to make people to clap their hands even if they just wanted to encourage us.

It was a good time and to be nervous is very normal before a show. I learnt to calm down and hold the chance to do the things best. Anyway, it was an interesting experience to me.

P.E 10

Mandarin 10

Science 10

Planning 10