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Yesterday was Saturday, My parents and relatives went to sweep the graves of dead seniors. It’s a traditional culture of Qingming in China. In China, the graves have important meaning to the dead. So it shows our respect and love to the seniors. I’ve heard some people around me said they had dreams that senior are angry to them because they didn’t went to sweep their graves in Qingming. Because of the culture, Qingming is thought of “festival of dead”; that’s why my mum feel confused when she hearf that we will have a party for Qingming.
There are no people at home, so I came to Mihang library with Linda and her mum. We met at the underground station and walk to it together. After finding two seats, we first did some homework. Then we went to choose the books. It’s usually tough to find a pleasant book in such huge numbers of bookshelves. But this time I’m lucky. I found a book named <Old Palace> which is written by Zhu Yong, a Chinese Arthur. The book includes a few short stories; they’re all about the history of Ming Dynasty. Went out of the library, we came to Linda’s home. The decoration of their house is beautiful, especially the one in the living room is Chinese style. The thing made me very excited is Lingma’s hand-making materials. She’s got so many materials in her working room. We are planning to learn hand-making from her. That must be a lot of fun. Many girls have never considered marriage before they met true love, but I believe that most of the girls have imagined their wedding for many times. Weeding is romantic in the most girls’ imagination. It means you give your rest life to the man you love him deeply. Although you will meet trouble and challenge in the future, during the moment you take an oath with your hands hold together, you trust him and feel the heart-beat of each other. Wedding dress is one of the reasons why wedding makes girls crazy. Wedding gives girls who love beauty so much a reason to wear the most beautiful dresses in the world. When it comes to wedding dress, many girls may think about Vera Wang. Vera Wang is a Chinese American fashion designer. Her wedding dress is popular all over the world and attracts girls who are going to enter the wedding hall year after year. The first time I heard Vera Wang is on a book. I’ve dreamed to become a fashion designer since I was 7. Once I receive a book about Fashion design as birthday gift. It made me fondle admiringly and I learnt plenty of famous fashion designers all over the world, including Vera Wang. Now, Vera Wang is coming to Shanghai this spring. As the first exclusive shop in Asia, Vera Wang Shanghai flagship store continue the consistent style of Vera Wang, low profile and graceful, simple and modern. The good environment and abundant products provide Chinese girl a wonderful dreamland. As food lovers, being taught by a chef cook is a pretty exciting thing. This Friday, we got the opportunity to meet Chef Smith and learn how to make an Italian dish. The dish named Bruschetta. If you have ever read or watched <Julie and Julia>, you must be familiar with this dish. It is one of the traditional Italian foods, simple and classical. Bruschetta includes the most basic materials in Italian food, and simple flavor keep the fresh of the vegetable.
Making Bruschetta is not very difficult. Chef Smith taught us a few techniques, such as how to remove the skin of tomatoes quickly, remove the core of tomatoes to get rid of sour taste and how to protect our fingers when cutting. But the most thoughtful thing he told us was the attitude of cooking. He collect the core of the tomatoes and told us don’t waste the material; even the one that is useless so far may be required in the future. It’s not only about environment-friendly, but also told us to pay attention to the worth of every single thing. In addition, he mentioned art of cooking. Being creative and don’t think too much about the technique is the key point in cooking. Bruschetta is very delicious. Mallory and Sam ate a lot and Mr. Andy enjoyed the one without tomatoes. Mr. Manno even said he may give us extra credit it we bring the bruschetta we made to the school. I can’t wait to practice, but unfortunately I failed buy a Baguette yesterday. What a pity! :-( Garith is coming to make you guys ravenous again. Be prepare to meet the mysterious burger in China which is familiar for every Chinese people but the foreigners may feel confuse and weird. If you are interested, click "Read more"
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This Saturday, Sherry held a creative party to cerebrate her birthday, many classmates and parents came and had a good time, even Ms. Cindy and Mr. Crane came as well~!
The party was held in Sherry's villa by the Dianshan Lake. The location is far from the city center, close to Jiangsu province. My mum drove Kyd and I (Since he lives close to our home) to the location, spent almost 2 hours. After we reached it, Sherry took us to have lunch and barbecue. That's my first time to try barbecue on my own. It's very interesting to have the food baked by myself. But it need practice and experience, so the meat was often burned over or not cooked at first. Luckily, the skill become better and better so that we have opportunity to enjoy the delicious food. After lunch, we went to fly the kite and Kongmin Lanterns. In China, the wishes will realize if people fly the Kongmin Lanterns. We wrote down our wishes and dreams on the lanterns and light the candle on the bottom of it. Some of the Lanterns fly higher and farther carrying our wishes, but unfortunately there are also some lanterns failed to fly and fell to the lake... We ran back to Sherry's villa because of the sudden rain. Sherry Lead Linda and I visit the rooms. The landscape around the villa is pretty and the decoration of the villa is lovely. I suggested we can have vacation here during the summer holiday :-) Before leaving, we played some interesting card games in the living room. There are some very funny punishment to the players. The living room is full of our laughter. That's a pity that I didn't brought my camera... But anyway, thank you Sherry for giving us such a good day~~ And Happy Birthday~! My family went to the restaurant called "New Farm" this night. The tasty dishes and low price leave me a strong impression.
The characteristic of "New Farm" is that it provide rural food. In Shanghai, there are more and more rural restaurants opened a business these years. More and more citizens of Shanghai begin to realize that rural food is more healthy and natural after they are used to the rich food. The dishes in "New Farm" is simple but classical. The material is fresh and the flavor is delicious. The names of the dishes are interesting as well. The dish in the picture called "Host's New Year Dinner". In ancient China, new year's dinner is grand, especially in the rich family. So the "Host's New Year Dinner" includes plenty of good materials such as bouilli, eggs and meat balls.There's a cold dish named "Tofu with Traditional Sauce". There's some XO sauce and pidan on the tofu. It bond tradition and modern together. In addition, the chicken soap has meat balls in it which mix the lotus root into it, very creative. And the flavor of the vegetable cake is very close to the one I've eaten in the countryside of Ningbo, my hometown. "New Farm" restaurant is local on No.2396 on Jianhe Road. It's really deserve to try~ March the 5th, Grade 10 and Class 9a students went to Chinese Pavilion to visit the art exhibition of famous Chinese artists Wu Guanzhong and Lin Fengmian as the field trip of this semester. Before the field trip, Ms. Xu said that there’s no more excursion in US High School; the field trip is an experience to study and practice out of the school. Last semester we went to art exhibition as well; US High School pays plenty of attention on training students’ art accomplishment.
12 o’clock in the afternoon, we arrived at Chinese Pavilion. Ms. Cicile had introduced the two artists the day before, so the students had known a little about them. Although they drew oil painting, in their opuses Chinese element and thought can be found everywhere. The auction price of Wu Guanzhong’s painting is the highest one in China. Teachers and students entered the showroom of him at about 13:00. The opuses of Wu Guanzhong are in the order of timeline. Audiences can see his painting style changed over time. His early opuses are realistic. His paint of distant view is charming. The brushwork and color is simple, but he caught the characteristic of people and animals very well. Though the people and animals is in the distance, and don’t include many details, the audience can recognize them easily. That the charm of Wu Guanzhong’s painting. The early opus of Wu is usually drawn on the wooden board; so “the oil painting color is thick and rich.” said Kathy. As the time pass by, Wu’s painting became more abstract and use more techniques from Chinese painting and calligraphy. For example, the opus <Yellow River> leaves lots of blank space which shows Chinese artistic conception. Jeff noticed another magnum opus <Fishing Village beside the Ocean>, “The layers of the painting are clear and abundant. It is western painting, but it is about Chinese theme.” Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television. This noon, the Student Council held the "McDonald Day" which raises money for the US High School dance parties. That reminded me that most of us don't know how to do ballroom dancing. Ballroom dance is very classical and graceful. It's popular throughout the world and includes a few different types. Waltz The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance in triple time, performed primarily in closed position. The Waltz is began in Vienna, 1780s. It's a triple-beat dance. The rhythm is heavy-light-light. Its movement is fluent and graceful, gain the reputation of "The Queen of Ballroom Dance".
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