Translator: Fan Guo Reviewer: Yanyan Hong
Hi everyone. I am Chengze Liu.
Please look at these pictures. Can you guess where it is?
I heard a lot of answers. None of them is correct.
This is my school, Guangzhou BASIS International School.
This is what my school looks like on Halloween.
On Halloween, it becomes a huge haunted mansion.
There are spiders, skeletons and spider webs on the wall,
jack-o-lantern, candy, and skull on the desks.
On Halloween,
kids are allowed to wear all kinds of costumes at school.
Most boys like to become Harry Potter and the Vampire.
Some girls like to wear Disney princess dresses.
On Halloween, I even saw a student
actually dressed up as a shit!
Our teachers just laughed. They didn’t criticize.
Many parents may be sick of these,
because some costumes may frighten kids.
But don’t worry, we also have some warm time.
For example, on Christmas,
We took photos as a gift from Santa.
Teachers hang them on the wall.
On that day, our homework is much less.
Our teachers really care about our mood.
Except for special holidays， we still have Spirit Week.
On Spirit Week, like last week, we have
a Pajamas Day.
You can wear your pajamas to school.
I wore the pyjama that I has worn for 2 years
There’s another week when we can wear shoes of different colours.
Some people wear a red shoe
and a blue one.
Some wear a Nike shoe and a Li-Ning shoe.
That’s funny.
However, sometimes we have much more homework than usual.
For example, I still need about 30 minutes to finish my homework.
The most difficult part is to write Chinese characters.
There are too many new characters. The questions are also difficult.
So it takes us a great amount of time.
But study is not always boring.
Sometimes we have project learning.
Like last time in class,
the teacher asked us to make a book as a group.
In the book making process, we divided our work.
Some pained, some searched information, some typeset the book.
We didn’t know about things like strength,
so we decided the division of labour through rock paper scissors.
While in this process, lots of problems arose.
Like the division was not clear, which caused disagreement occured.
Therefore, we adopted a democratic vote,
abiding by the majority rule to make decisions.
But some people just disagreed with the decision of voting.
So we had to figure out ways to make coordination.
Project learning
can be conducted in different classes. For example,
in math and English class,
part of learning are conducted through project learning.
This is my life in the international school.
My strongest feeling in here is freedom,
because the school allows you to express your opinions.
It won’t shape us to be the same kind of person.
You can have you opinion on study, too.
If you take a walk around our school, you can definitely see
some male students with long hair,
and many people with different hair colors.
International school
won’t shape you to be alike.
Learning is supposed to let everyone discover ourselves.
Thank you.
(Applause)