religious service

I went to Jiming Temple in the afternoon on May 3. I had been there with my aunt. I attended at one o’clock p.m.
I chose to go to Jiming Temple because it is Buddhism which the most popular religion in China. Jiming Temple has been built for hundred years. It is also a famous temple in Nanjing. I chose buddhism because it is influent the live of some of Chinese people. It is also fit the traditionally culture and history in China.
Jiming Temple is located near Xuanwu Lake, East Beijing Lu. The temple was built on the hill . The buildings in the Temple were all Chinese traditional buildings which are very old but beautiful. There are four halls in the temple. The first hall is DA XIONG BAO DIAN which has four numens who control the weather. They help people work successfully. The biggest hall is where the kwan-yin is. Kwan-yin prevent us from dangerous and bring us safety and peace.

I like the religous service very much. People bring joss sticks and burn them to worship. There were many people to the temple. Jiming Temple is one of the temples in nanjing that people go to most. The Boda in Jiming Temple gives safety and peace to everyone. Though there were a lot of people in the temple, but the temple was calm and silent. I felt vey quiet in my mind. I told the Boda my wishes. I felt happy to make wishes.
I fell down almost every Boda in the temple and donate some money for the temple.I will help people who need money. Treating others well is also treat ourselves well. I learnt to be nice to everyone from here.

go to a performence

I went to a performance THE TAMING OF THE SHREW which was held by GCA teachers and students on December 19 2008 at NFLS auditorium (3rd floor, over Cafeteria) 30 Beijing Dong Lu, Nanjing.
The show begins at 7PM. I went to the show with Candy. We attended at 6:20. I chose it because it was directed and performed by GCA student. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW is also a famous play which was written by Shakespeare.

The beautiful and gentle Bianca has no shortage of admirers (Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio) but her father insists that she will not marry until her shrewish sister, Katharina, is betrothed. Bianca's suitors persuade fortune-seeker Petruchio to court her. The suitors pay for any costs involved and there is also the goal of Katharina's dowry. Petruchio marries Katharina and he carries Katharina off to his country house with his servant Grumio. Petruchio intends to browbeat Katharina into submission and he denies her food, sleep and her new clothes, whilst continuously singing her praises. Katharina is tamed. They return to Padua where Lucentio has won Bianca. At a banquet they wager on who has the most obedient wife. Each wife is issued with commands but only Katharina obeys and promptly lectures everyone on the importance of wifely submission.

I not only watched the show,but also made one stage property for the show. So, I wanted to see this performance which was all made by GCA students.The Taming of the Shrew is an early comedy byW illiam Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594 . The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking he is a nobleman by a mischievous Lord.I like the show because all performers acted very well. The clothes and the setting were beautiful. It was really very interesting. Some actins made audience laugh. The performers spoke very fluent English.

public events

On April 24, I went to the crab apple blossoms exhibition which was held by Mochou Lake Park. I went to the exhibition with Julia. We attended at about four o’clock in the afternoon.
I chose this exhibition because of the advertisement on the map magazine. My father also told me that the flowers were really beautiful. I have heard about crab apples, but I don’t know the flower deeply. I know that sakura in Japan is one kind of crabapples. I wanted to know the differences between Chinese crab apples and Japanese crab apples.

By reading the label of the crab apples. I learnt that the crab apples can fructufy. Different kinds of crab apple can fructufy different fruit.

The exhibition was in the garden of crab apples blossoms where along the Mochou Lake. The gate of the garden is beautiful which has a lot of red vivid crabapples blossoms. Unfortunately, when we walked into the garden, the crab apples blossoms got less and less. May be we went to the exhibition a little bit late. Many of the crab apple blossom faded. So, we walked around the garden quickly and read the introduction of the few blossoms.
The open time of the exhibition was from April 1 to May 3 . I don’t like the exhibition because there were not many flowers. I find it was boring because there were not many kinds of flowers. The exhibition was small. There were few people there. The introductions of the flowers are not specific. I can’t know the differences between flowers by reading the introduction of each flower. This year we didn't catch the florescence, but I will go there next year. The whole garden crabapple blossom will be beautiful. I am looking forward to visiting there again.