At The French Restaurant

On Sunday December 21st, we guys went together with the Grade 12 students to the French classmate’s restaurant “LA TABLE DE MR. EIFFEL” to enjoy the French food.
First came up some vegetables with the source, after waiting for a while, the waitress served a bowl of pumpkin soup with French bread. The third was the main dish, some chicken wings, duck and potatoes. Last there were the apple pies for dessert.
After finishing eating, I though that I had to go to the McDonald’s for lunch again because the French food was TOO little. I was still hungry after the lunch. Also, we did most of the waiting in the restaurant instead of eating which was really a bit tiring.
For me, I like Chinese food and eating habits better than the French ones as Chinese food is definitely much faster and a lot more. I think French eating ways care more about the manners and the surrounding feelings instead of the food. During the lunch, one thing I liked was the candles on the tables that created a feeling of harmony.
In addition, I was not used to the taste of the French food, I think they taste a bit strange, totally different from the Chinese food and that is one of the reasons I do not like French food so much.
Also, I felt quite embarrassed during the lunch, while I was nearly finishing my pumpkin soup, the waitress came and gave me the bread, she told me that the bread should be eaten with the soup!! I was almost done! I felt not so good about this… French people eat TOO slowly!
Anyway, different countries have different eating habits and I appreciate all of them as I do to the Chinese ones!

Critique Wu Weishan’s Sculptures

On Thursday December 4th, we went to Nanjing University for an exhibition of an artist called Wu Weishan. He makes sculptures and all of his artworks are contemporary.
Professor Wu’s best and most popular sculpture is called “Sleeping Baby”, he finished it in the year 2002. This sculpture is basically about the appearance of a baby that was sleeping. In Chinese it is called “Shui Tong (睡童)”. The sculpture only contains the head of the sleeping baby, the shape is 3D oval and it looks like an egg. It is the color of Copper and it seems to be quite smooth. What I could see clearly from the sculpture is a baby sleeping peacefully with his mouth opened. If you see it from a further place, it looks very cute and adorable.
This sculpture makes me feel like being back to my comfortable bed and a bit sleepy. I think the artwork was not very clear when you look closely but when you stand far away and look, then you knows exactly what the baby is doing. Wu Weishan catches the characteristics of the baby which are: the eyes, the head and the mouth. The sculpture shows the characteristics of pure, honest, innocent and artless by a sleeping baby. It is so real.
Actually I do not like this sculpture very much because when I saw that for the first time I was surprised “who would like to make a sculpture for a dead baby!?” It really looks like a dead one which made me feel bad. However, it made me feel sweet as well as he is sleeping. I was really wondering what the baby was thinking and dreaming about. It shows a normal life of a child. I think other people might appreciate this piece of work because it is so realistic and three-D. In my opinion the ideas of this sculpture relate to the idea of being real, honest and pure. People are really motivated by this image and even the evil goes away…