The French restaurant

menu

fruit salads

apple pie

three glasses

lobby

my friends with me

grade 10 and 12 students

I am enjoying French food!

garden

grilled chicken and duck with baked potatoes

pumpkin soup with Crisp skin

On December 21st, we selected a French restaurant to have a lunch with grade 12 mentors, La Table De Mr. Eiffel at Nanjing Road. We chose this restaurant because the French food is famous around of the world and it has a long history, we also had personal reason that is this restaurant belongs to our classmate Hugo’s mother who comes from France.

We attended at 11 O’clock, the atmosphere was so quiet and gentle. There are a lot of photographs and paintings about the construction or sceneries of Pairs around the walls. The appearance style is both eastern and western: the table, chairs, tableware are French modern styles; the wall lobby is painted with Chinese dragon; the ceiling of hall is decorated by Chinese traditional pattern. Especially, the French tableware are mainly forks and knives and they use different kinds knifes during different dishes, but the Chinese tableware is mainly chopsticks. On the table, there are three glasses: The left one is for drinking Cabernet; the middle one is for drinking white wine; and the right one is for drinking champagne.

In the past, the French food gave me a mistaken impression that their food was heavy and complicated. In fact, The French cuisine is simple; it relies on high quality and fresh ingredient. In addition, French food has commonly four dishes which are salad, soup, main dish and dessert. Between two dishes, we need to wait for a long time.

The first dish was fruit salads which are cucumber, small tomatoes, and lettuces. The second dish was pumpkin soup with Crisp skin. This soup was salty and sweet. The third dish was grilled chicken and duck with baked potatoes. They were very toothsome. The last dish was apple pie, it was sweet and tasty.

Our goal was not only enjoying French yummy food, but also learning about French culture from this lunch. We know the difference between Chinese culture and French culture, both them are unique. French cookery has variety, creative and exquisite, relying on French colorful, romantic culture and French polite manners.

I had a great time at there.

The Sculpture Exhibiton

Our class stand in the front ot the Sculipture Exhibition Building.

It is me.

The Sleeping child is my favorite sculpture.

On December 4th, my Art teacher Ms. Hadley takes our class (10-B) to visit to an exhibition in Nanjing University which called Wu Weishan’s sculpture of cultural figures. That is so excellent. There are a variety of sculptures what have both traditional and contemporary styles, his unique freehand style depend on his education experience from the eastern and western. These artworks were done by a famous artist: Wu Weishan. I think this exhibition was quiet interesting and meaningful. I like this exhibition because I saw many artworks about some people.

1. DESCRIBE THE ARTWORK:

The sleeping child is one of his sculptures of cultural figures, this artwork is attracted me by its unique special appearance. Sculpture is commonly big, but this one is just about 6 centimeters in length and its color is bronze. The artist sculpted the appearance of a sleeping child’s face and expression carefully. Moreover, this artwork has an interesting background story; it was modeled on a visit to a friend’s home, and Ms. Wu saw a child sleeping sweetly and his mouth was open because it had difficulty breathing through the nose. Wu thought that child is so lovely and he looked like an angle. Wu Weishan decided to sculpt this scene. This subject of this sculpture is about a little and pure baby is sleeping heavily. His head is rising upwards slightly, and his eyes are open, his mouth is open slightly and looks like a little flower bud.

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2. INTERPRET THE ARTWORK:

The sleeping child makes me feel an indistinct emotion about childhood, it reminds me of the memories about my childhood, and it makes me think about the purest and truest material from the children. The artwork was sculpted realistically and shows a child who is sleeping sweetly. Therefore, this is one reason that makes me think this artwork relates the childhood and some unforgettable memories. Moreover, the artist also penetrated into his subject’s inner world in order to capture it, and he caught the scene of a sleeping child. I think the artist’s intention is to make a purest and truest material from the life, he chooses the sleeping child because the child can bring us the instinct emotion and memories about childhood. The sleeping child makes me to feel warm.

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3. JUDGE THE ARTWORK:

I like this artwork because it makes me think of life deeply and brings me some memories about childhood. Childhood, teenage, youth and old age are parts of the life, they are the life circular. What is the meaning of life? It does not mean we should obey the destiny; we should live better than before.During the lifetime, we should treasure and enjoy the childhood and other ages. Moreover, the sleeping child uses the purest and truest manner to make me feel warm and remind me of my childhood. On the other hand, I believe other people might appreciate the sleeping child because everyone has a childhood which is full of love and happiness in common. Each child is an apple is parents' eyes. They pay the most attention to their child and they spend a long time caring and loving child. The children are pure because they can do anything that they want from their heart. When they are sad, they can cry; when they are happy, they can laugh. They look like spring which is full of vigor and pure.