Fantastic Journey of Tacos!

On the evening of December 20th ,I went to a restaurant to have dinner in ZhuJiang Road with my classmates and Grade 12 mentors. The name of the restaurant is Tacos ,Tacos is a Southwestern restaurant for which in Dallas is well known .Most of the food there are Mexican-style .

When we arrived in Tacos ,It was 5:30 in the afternoon .We started to choose the food .The food in Tacos is not very expensive and I think it was one of the most important reasons that we choosed Tacos .I ate "three cups chicken" and an ice cream .In all, I spent 50 RMB there .

I think this restaurant was good ,though I had waited the food for 2 hours ,the food are delicious and they are different from the food I usually eat.For example ,the way for cooking is different from Chinese food ,and drinks there must be putted in the appointed bottles , cooks can't put cold drink into the bottles for hot drink and cooks can't put tubes into hot drink.The environment is very good ,There were Christmas trees , colourful lights, wires and romantic musics....

Not only us ,there were many people there .Some of them were people from different countries and most of them were young couples.I will recommed others to go to the Tacos but every one must remember one thing ,that is choose the time that not too many people there ,or you will be mad about the waiting!

An exhibition on Ms.hadley's class

On December 4th ,Ms.hadley lead us to an excellent exhibition.The title of the exhibition is "Institute of Sculpture Art of Nanjing University".We can see lots of sculptures shown on the exhibition which were all made by one artist whose is Wu Weishan and this artwork is contemporary.


I saw many interesting sculptures in this exhibition made by the famous artist called Wu Weishan .Most of them were portrait .They were contemporary and fantastic though some of them made me feel very very strange because he is not simple to copy down the people but added his own views to create the statue which make his sculptures different from others.


Laozi must be the greast sculpture in this exhibition.It was also made by Wu Weishan in 2005. This sculpture was very tall about 3 meters high.This sculpture was made of metal and it was black .Laozo looks very old and there is a big hole in his stomach. The hole is full of strange words which were used long long times ago and of course we don't know the meaning of those words.His eyes are closed and one of his finger towards to the sky.


LaoZi was a famous person in the history who created Taoism and many people who believe in Taoism and who love his sprits admire him.


The artwork makes me feel strange,at first ,I don't know what it is telling us,but the teacher told us why the artist made it like this.Laozi looked very old because in China,wise people must have ugly appearance and they must be very old,so the artist created such an old man to show that Laozi's wisdom.

The artwork makes us think that we must be friendly towards others like Laozi and this artwork shows us that everything in the world begins with Taoism and we need to forgive others when they don't treat us very well.


I like this artwork ,because this artwork not only describes a very realistic LaoZi ,but also shows us the things LaoZi thought.For example ,LaoZi has big stomach.That shows he has much knowledge and he is very kind to others because acient China ,big stomach represents wisdom and kindness.I think other people may like this artwork because LaoZi is a famous person and many people like him just like me .This artwork lets us see the great sprit that LaoZi had.

GUEST ARTIST

There are many Chinese gardens in China ,some of them are very beautiful and built long long time ago .The artists often use small places to set these Chinese gardens but to make them look bigger.The way to change it is to add something .


The two important things must be the water and stones ,different area of water and different size of stones could make different feelings for visiters. Bridges are important too,they can make people feel closer to the nature ,and they can also make the garden look more beautiful and make the area look bigger .


A Chinese garden must made by people.If it is not made by people,it can't be called as a garden.Sometimes we enter these Chinese gardens we have a feeling of entering a fantistic story!we can see the places where people liked and shared their fun in the past.We can also enjoy the nature there.


Artists must cut the stones when they design the Chinese gardens .As when know ,different kind of stones can bring people different feelings.For example ,if you just put some stones like mountain ,the stones can be not very beautiful,and these stones are not natural .Natural stones can make the garden look natural too!


Chinese gardens are beautiful and we can only see them in China,we need to know them cause we are Chinese.We shouldn't foget them and we should to let more people know them!