Keep on dancing!

I have been interested in dancing when I was Grade 7, however, my junior high school does not have formal dancing club, even does not have enough chances to act. Luckily, GCA has many wonderful clubs and they have regular activities. Thus I have an opportunity to take part in the Dancing club with my good friend Zoe.
We knew Only as the leader first, and I became more and more admirable to him because of his leader ability and amazing dancing skills. Then the second one we admire is girl’s hip-hop leader, Mona, she is a kind and easy-going girl. We also make friends with the students from other classes, such as Denis, Jessica, Mike, Noah. They are funny and we practice the dancing together and improve. I still remember the passion I gave to the dancing when the club training started, although the temperature was high and the dancing hall did not have the air condition, we never gave up dancing but prepared the performance carefully. The leaders were also very busy at making music and arrange. I discovered that the leaders liked to appreciate and give awards to the members, especially the new members that made the members respect the leaders very much and the leaders’ work became easier. I also discovered my determination inside myself, because break-dancing is very hard for girls to learn, but I do not believe it at all. As a result, I began my effort since October in 2008. The process was hard and I could not think about it, but I knew I was successful anyway just like the photo I put in the blog.
Dancing club’s strength is its population and popular. First the members are quite many, and dancing is a popular culture among the teenagers, so many students take part in. However, the weakness is because of so many people, the club is difficult to rule. In additional, two-thirds students do not come to train every time. In a word, the rules should be stricter to these students, if anyone does not come for three times, then his membership will be cancelled.
In Dancing club, I not only learned how to dance, but the determination as well. From the beginning of the new term in September in 2008, Dancing club has received several performances. The performance during sports meeting, art festival, military training, Christmas & New Year celebration. There also will be a performance in Foreign language festival in later month. I took part most of them, learned a lot every time and made friendship deeper. The existence is a big benefit to GCA. Just like Art festival in NFLS, the wonderful dancing skills surprised the whole school and it has been one of GCA’s advantages since then.
Also, Dancing club is a sport club. Although I do not use it as my physical goals, however I really do a lot of exercises during training and it stretches my body to make me grow taller.
Finally, I believe the memory in Dancing club will be my value, especially the trust and friendship.

physical activity log

I am a member in Basketball club. The supervisor is Mr. Saxby.

Dancing Club photo

I am a member in Dancing club. I am willing to learn dancing.

Club activity log

The supervisor is Mona from 12-D in Dancing club.

volunteer log 1

The supervisor for painting is Ms. Hadley. The supervisor for cleaning and making hockey field is Mr. Harris and the supervisor for being a secretary is my father .

Dancing on Christmas

Our show was published on the GCA newspaper:-) I was at the front and in white clothes.

Christmas is a big festival in western countries. GCA gave us a three-day holiday and we would have a big party to celebrate the Christmas and New Year on 31st of December. Dancing club always acts on the party, whatever Halloween or Art festival, so the leader Only gave this mission to another leader Mona because he had to act in Art festival. As a result, from the beginning of the December we began preparing for performance. Actually the time was limited, we needed to perform to the judgers for the first time on the Thursday. Unfortunately, Noah and I cooperated not very fluent and Richard did not remember the actions at all! However, Richard could not come because of the Taming of the Shrew, so the rest of us were given the small test. In the end we passed successfully. Before performing, there were some changes happening. First, three boys who danced the Break-dancing changed Richard to another boy, then Mona cancelled half of the performance because the whole time was too long. Actually I practiced a lot of times to remember all the actions, or I could not dance fluently, either. Eventually, I can dance with the music correctly. The party began and I felt a little nervous, I gave myself confidence for I have performed such many times, so I would not perform wrong or forget the actions. From the beginning it was quite fluent, however near the end, Mona got wrong actions. After finishing it, we played jokes on her that we laughed for a long time.
Although I performed successfully, I knew whatever how smart I was, I still had to practice.

Work as a volunteer

I did three kinds of the volunteer work in all to finish 10 hours as homework. First, I helped Ms. Hadley to paint the cupboards which used for the Taming of the Shrew, and then I helped Mr. Harris to clean his new office and make the hockey court.

Painting is a really interesting work indeed. First we carried the brushes, paper, colors and pans to the entrance of the white building. Then someone unfolded the paper on the ground, someone got the water from toilets, I carried the cupboard without painting out of the white building with others. After Ms. Hadley taught us how to paint and choose which color, I began paint the brown contour. I was quite nervous with strangers, although they came from GCA, too. Unfortunately, my friends were all working on another cupboard, so I felt more and more uncomfortable and changed the place in the end. However the work became happier later, I discovered that I had something not suitable for the teamwork. It is said that people born on Leo always like to command others because of the expecting. So did I, I ordered Zoe or Karen to do this instead of doing that many times and wanted the process happening likes my purpose. Eventually, they became a little angry and I realized the fault I have made. That became a good lesson to me that giving the suggestion is ok, but never ordering others. I also learned the patience is important, especially the painting. We needed to do the same work many times, so being patient from beginning to the end is what I need.
Hockey is a kind of famous sport in Canada. Winter is coming, Mr. Harris began to teach us how to play hockey. The first he needed is to have a clean office with PE instruments in order. On Saturdays, Bobby, Jack, Stephen, Nick, Jenny, Lucy, Angelina and I began helping Mr. Harris. The office before cleaning was so dirty that we even breathed the dust in the air. We needed to put the things belonging to NFLS in one room, so we carried all the dirty things out of the room first. Sometimes, we carried things individually; if the distance was long and room was small, we would stand in a line and pass the things one by one. Our work was efficient. After bringing all the things off the room, Mr. Harris leaded us how to put the instruments in order and use all the room as possible as we can. Because we needed to put things until the ceiling, one of my classmates needed to climb to the high place. Although the person was not me but Bobby or Jenny, we took care of them from time to time. The friendship and team spirit became obvious among us. We also transport the instruments from the office the hockey court by carts with four wheels, that we needed to push and hold at the same time with cooperation. We felt tired and thirsty sometimes, so Mr. Harris played hockey with us for five minutes and we laughed loudly with happiness. Mr. Harris even bought a big dinner for us and we chatted a lot. We taught him Chinese and he taught us “Are you busy?” for using on the table.
The volunteer work is tired, but I can learn much from it, not only patience, friendship, team spirit, also the value of myself and true emotion among us.