First experience for Guzheng

For playing Guzeng i need to stick extra nail, the nails are kind of big that we need to keep it close to the real nail or it will be very hard to play. The extra nail is help and protect the real nail cause the strings are too think and sharp to play ( the basses are think and the trebles are too sharp). For Guzheng there don't have fa and si which is semitone so we need to play it ourselves, there are four green strings present so and also means that there are four music scale in Guzheng. For the first time we only practice for the fingering, we only use two fingers for the first class that are thumb and index finger. the fingering for the thumb is called “tuo” 托 and the fingering for index finger is called “gou”勾.

Chinese Music

I join the Chinese Music since the third term, I used play pipa for one year in grade 8, this time I choose guzheng for the intrusment. Because I had learn Chinese music before that it will be easier for me to read the chart and understand the Chinese music theory. Ms. Chang is my guzheng teacher, she is chinese that i can communicate easier with her. It is pound to know how the play Chinese intrusment that I will make good effort for it!

Ardha Kurmasana, Half- Tortoise Pose

Steps:

• Stand tall seated on your knees.
• Cross your thumbs.
• Keeping a flat back and your torso aligned with your arms, slowly begin to dive forward.
• Reach your arms out and land with your “pinkie” fingers supporting the pose. If possible, try to keep your elbows off the ground.

Half- Tortoise pose is a relaxed pose that it wasn’t difficult to do, for doing the pose the most important point is to control the breath and relaxed, we don’t need to use the energy with it. I very like the position of the feet that during the pose I cant strongly feel the stress but when we relaxed, the blood all flow back that feel really good. During the pose Mrs. Alicia will press on our shoulder help us to relax the shoulder, after the pose the only words I can use to describe is RELAXED, feels like all the pressures are disappear.

Information from:http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/half-tortoise-pose-for-the-holidays/

Basic Yoga Poses for Balance

Steps:

•                Come onto all fours, with hands directly under shoulders and knees directly under hips.

•                Your eyes should be open for this pose.  Keep your head up and find a point to focus on.  Gaze steadily at this point as you practice this pose.  This will help you keep your balance and also help you develop the power of concentration and mental focus.

•                Extend your left arm straight out and your right leg straight back.  Your fingers and toes should be extended and the arm and leg should be parallel to the ground.  Look back and make sure your leg is straight and not angled up or down.

•                Now begin Long Deep Breathing.  As you inhale deeply, elongate your body, reaching forward with your arm, while at the same time reaching back with your leg.  Feel yourself elongating from the hips.  As you exhale "contract" back to normal.

For the basic balance pose I suddenly find out that my balance so bad! I even can’t hold for one minute, in the beginning of doing the balance pose I used the wrong force point. We supposed to use the belly to hold the pose but I used the leg that stay at floor to hold the pose that made the leg very pain and uncomfortable. This pose is the most challenge pose for me; I will practice to make it better.

Information from:http://www.anmolmehta.com/blog/2008/08/27/basic-yoga-poses-balance/

The earth day

Earth day is an every important day for our project that is the day that we present to the whole school. For earth day, we prepared a workshop and a presentation to introduce our project to the others. For the workshop we print some photo about bins introduced the project by painting and some documents. Earth day is the day that all the service projects are going to present so there were also had sekola bisa and the other recycled project. On the assembly at the last period of the day that was having several presentations to present including us so we couldn’t spend too much time on it. This time I didn’t do the presentation on stage so I help for the poster that placed in the workshop. For the poster we drew the bins, put some describe and the mission, to make the project clearer. The presentation was nice that we clearly stated our mission and proposes, hope that the project will work well and the whole school can join us to protect our environment. 

The proposal presentation

After the day we practiced for it, we had an actual presentation to the high school president Mr. Paul during the morning break on 15, Apr. The presentation was fine that was the result of the practicing, I was worried about it at the beginning, I did some research on Tze Chi that helped me on the presentation and we presented as a group so we can help each other to finish the sections. Mr. Paul had some questions to ask, such as should we only order one bins in the beginning? Why can’t we use the pervious recycled bins? How to make it work? Where the money comes from? For answer, we only order one for the beginning because we want to test it work or not that we can fix the problem after testing. The pervious recycled bins project was failed and the bins were already used in other way so that we need to order the new one that with good quality and better than the pervious one. We will teach people how to use the bins and tell them the benefit of using the bins that make them want to do the project themselves.  In the end of the meeting, Mr. Paul gave us three option for the proposal, first is to ask the school to give the money; second is to foundries the money ourselves. Mr. Paul said that he well pass the message to Mr. John that is the CEO of SWA and next step is to do the same presentation to the whole school on earth day on 21, Apr.

meeting- prepare for the proposal presentation

4/14 after school we set up a meeting to prepare the proposal presentation to Mr. Pual. We sorted out all the information that we collected and made a keynote for the presentation. For this meeting we also decided the company that we are going to choose, the price of the Taiwanese company is too high that cost US 500 per bin and we need to pay for the ship too. The group from grade 8 is already done the keynote but we need to make sure the informations and decided the part who should present, the part i need to introduce is "Tzu Chi" and "our mission". in the end of today meeting we practice for the presentation that was nice that we can help each other to find out what to say it helped me a lot that the presentation made me nervous and they can also help me the pronunciation. The proposal presentation meeting is going to be at morning break tomorrow.