The volunteer work for Popular Book Mall of Nanjing

My classmate Michael's father is the Chief Executive Officer of the Popular Book Mall. So his father gave us chances to be volunteers for the Popular Book Mall.

I arrived at the Popular Book Mall at 1 p.m. on January 20th with Michael, Bill, Kevin and Frank Huang. We all arrived here on time because it is our first time to be the volunteer. Then Michael took us into the gate of the Popular Book Mall. At the same time, there was a manager treated us. She told us something we need to pay more attention including something we can do and something we cannot do. After she told us anything she needs to tell us, she took us to their staff office. We could get our own tasks at the staff room. She had prepared the work permits for us. My job is the same as Frank Huang. Our tasks are to help Ms Zhu to keep the books tidy, put the new arriving books onto the bookshelves, and we also need to walk around to ask customers not to sit on the books. Maybe there are some other tasks we need to do. These are all my duties and tasks. At the beginning, I thought it is easy to finish. In fact, it isn’t true.

Then we took part in our work immediately. At the same time, I had a special feeling that I felt a little bit dizzy because of those too many kinds of books. And most of those books are for children, so there were a lot of children came to read books. However, the most important point is that they always picked one book from one place and put it into another. This made me felt terrible. I can’t put these books into the right places accurately and immediately. Just this task had already made me have dizziness. But, when I did it a long time, I accumulate some experience. So I would do it better than before.

Another made me tired thing is put the new arriving books onto the bookshelves. There were too many books I need to put. Otherwise, I also need to make every Layer of the bookshelves had no more other place. It is so difficult for one person. Luckily, Frank Huang came to help me when I almost ran down. The thing seemed became easier when we had two people to do the task. We finished this task fast. Through this task I found that cooperation is very important at any time although it is just a small task. Cooperation not only can let you finish your task fast, but also can let you know how to work with others and can help you achieve more work skills.

Five hours volunteer time had been done. It is not easy I found. I felt too tired to stand up. When I came back to home, I first want to do the thing is sleeping.

The next day morning, I got up early at 7 a.m. I forgot the body and came to the Popular Book Mall on time. Then I started a new day. There were not many people because of morning. So I had nothing to do, just walk around and kept the books tidy.
But, Ms Zhu didn’t let me free. She told me to sell books. It is so harder than other things to me. I really don’t know how to recommend books to customers because I can’t communicate to people well and I am afraid of talking to others when I was a child. So this affects me deeply. Although I tried my best to chance it, I still can’t change this. Frank is better than me. He knows how to communicate to people and he knows the best way to sell books. He is activity. I am shy. So he can sell 10 more books. However I do nothing. I think this communication skill is very important for me in the future. I need to improve this ability and accumulate more communication experience for the future. Otherwise, I cannot adapt the community very well.

To have a perfect dinner with Grade 12 students

For learning more foreign culture, so, on the end of last month, I went to Tacos to have special dinner with some of my classmates and some of the Grade 12 students including Alice, Jack, Cissy etc. They tell us that we meet at that western restaurant on Zhu jiang road on the top floor of the Golden Eagle Area at 6p.m.

We arrived at Tacos early. However, we also needed to wait for some people. During this free time, I asked a Grade 12 student why we choose this place to have a dinner. He told me that because Tacos western restaurant is cheap and authentic. I looked around this restaurant, and I found that people who have dinner here are all young people. They were cheating with each other. The atmosphere here was so elegant that we were going to have a perfect dinner here I think.

Finally all the people arrived here. We could choose our own favorite food. I ordered a pizza with a beautiful name called Cheese Lover Pizza about nine inches. I love eating this kind pizza because there are lots of tomatoes and cheese above the pizza with a good smell. I tasted a little, “Yummy!” I said. The lemonade was also very cool. The elegant environment with relaxed music makes us feel happy. We had a good time here. Our Chinese usually eat rice and two to four other dishes. And we eat food use chopsticks. However, western people eat food with knives and forks. Fly in the ointment is that the service here is not very satisfactory. When we ate our food done almost, Bill’s pizza had not prepares for him yet.

All the things of Tacos are nice except the service is not very good. The price is cheaper and the atmosphere is elegant. I am going to recommend my parents and other friends to have dinner there. This restaurant will be a wonderful place to pass your time.

Wu Weishan Cultural Figures Sculpture Gallery of Nanjing Museum

Last Thursday, Ms Hadly and Ms Bartell took us to Nanjing Museum to appreciate sculptures of a Chinese artist called Wu Weishan.

Wu Weishan is Nanjing University professor, director of the Institute of sculpture art, religion and art direction graduate school instructors. He is also a contemporary sculpture artist and his artworks are both traditional and contemporary. The most artworks were being about showing the spirit.

He created a great number of influential figures and Buddhist sculptures in the past few years. I like one of his artworks. It is Confucius statue. He created Confucius statue at Year 2006.

The main body of this artwork seems like a four-prism. This is a gap in the middle of the four-prism. Using your imagination, you will find that they form the Chinese character-“中”. This is in line with the thinking of Confucius-Doctrine of mean. This artwork consisted of bronze and it was brown on the surface with a little bit aeruginosa. The lines are all straight. And the lines are obvious and neat. The lines, shapes of this artwork are both concise, focused freehand brushwork. The kind of face of Confucius expresses his thinking of ceremony. From this we can see China is a nation with etiquette from ancient to now. At the same time, this reflects the artist’s superb artistry. From his works, I have seen that Confucius was an erudite person and I also have seen his great thinking.

The statue of Confucius put his hand close to his chest together. He just looks like a Buddha. This action makes me feel Confucius is also a humble person. He often studied more knowledge from others, not only adults, but also children. This artwork also reminded me of Confucius’ book The Analects of Confucius. One famous word, “Three-line must be my teacher.” It teaches us we must have an open mind and chest to learn from others. I think even Confucius has done so, we are not exceptions. We also need to ask questions that you don’t understand to someone can teach you without shy. The thinking of Confucius affected our Chinese People deeply from long long ago. The artist wants to tell us that although we are far away from Confucius, but we also need to learn good things from Confucius because we are Chinese.

Of course, I like this artwork because it is good for the transmission of Chinese traditional culture and national spirit. I feel this way because China is a developing country; it needs strong national spirit to maintain its developing. I think so. This artwork has the values of appreciation because it contacts Chinese long-standing cultural and people can know about China more deeply. It is also a symbol of China and Chinese culture. It contains the essence of Chinese culture.

It is interesting for visiting the exhibits of sculpture. We cannot only see a lot of different kinds of artworks, also We can learn more about the artwork, sculpture, the artist, the culture of the artworks and even the artist’s country.