Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Classmates

We've just lost Shou老师(teacher Shou), since her student teaching is finished., here's my class with her (excuse spelling): [back row] Duan (Vietnam), Dahai (Syria), Megan (Korea/Australia), Katya (Russia), Andre (Russia), Jeff (USA), me (USA), [middle row] Ti (Cambodia), Zidar (Turkmenistan), Eda [in pink] (Croatia), Priscilla (Uganda), Lalei (Iran), Manamee (Japan), Eszter (Hungary), [front row] Sarah (USA), Shou老师 (China), Micky (Japan), [very front] Arianna (Mongolia/Angola)


My Chinese buddy Elephant and I. Many Chinese have crazy names like this, I also know a "Commander" who happens to be a girl! but when you want a more interesting Chinese name, they're always like, Oh no! you can't do that- that's ridiculous! which is pretty funny- they dont even want me to have more than two syllables for a first name or 1 syllable for a family name, yet it is fine for them to be Elephant, or Commander, Dream, or Smacker. The bottom line is that remembering their Chinese names is really really f'ing hard, so Elephant he is!


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