School days....

In the last few days of the second week, we attend classes. We had lessons on physics, chemistry etc. One difference is that we had lessons from morning to evening , however there are breaks in between lessons. One interesting event they do in winter is that all of their students have a morning run. They will assemble in the school running track and they will start to run for 2 rounds. Each class will be assessed and be given points. Their PE lesson is also conducted differently. They allow us to choose the sport that i want. I chose table tennis. I went for my first lesson and had a very refreshing experience. This is the first time i play ping pong so i performed not too well. When i hit the ball, it will either fly out of the table or accidentally hit the teacher. i don't think i want to give comments yet on this segment as i only started playing the game. May be i will get back to it after a few lessons. I also had wushu and Chinese calligraphy. Imagine doing Wushu in the school running track during the winter evening and you will feel how 'wonderful' i had felt.( Thank goodness i had my jacket and gloves on!). Well as for the Chinese calligraphy lesson, my hands are doing a pretty bad job. Actually, since sec 2, my calligraphy isn't that good either. i don't know when to apply force to the brush and in the end, my words are either stretched or shrunk. During the weekends, i also visited the 鸟巢 and 水立方. They are marvelous architectures built by the hands of man. Both structures are used for hosting the Olympics and Paralympics. However, the important thing to learnt from this is that they will be reusing most the facilities after the Olympics. This received well comments from the IOC.鸟巢, though designed for track & field events of the Olympics, the stadium will continue to host sporting events, such as football, afterwards. A shopping mall and a hotel, with rooms overlooking the field, are planned to help increase use after the Olympics. Most of the stadiums used are built near schools thus they will be used by the schools afterwards.
---written by yangle