INTERESTING ENGLISH NAMES

We know a lot of you are wondering how school is going for us and we want you all to know it's going well! I think the reason we haven't written about it yet is because there's so much to tell and explain that writing the entry seems like a daunting task. With that being said, though, we want to fill you in with all the experiences we've been having at school. So, hopefully sometime in the near future we'll have the time to tackle the task of updating you on that part of our lives (and show you some picture of where we work)! Unfortunately, that's not going to happen this weekend because we are traveling to Taichung (a large city about an hour north of Douliu) for two days and don't have the time to write a lot.

So, instead, we thought we'd try to bring some smiles to your faces by listing some interesting English names we've encountered since being here. Some of these are elementary students' names, some are junior high students' names and some are adult names. There are a few things we want to say in defense of the people who have their English names listed below. First, we appreciate the fact that they have an English name at all. English names make our lives so much easier here. Second, sometimes people here will create an English name using the sounds of their Chinese name. This makes sense, but for some reason it doesn't stop us from finding these names humorous. And, finally, we realize it would be hard to choose an appropriate name in a different language and to satisfy a different culture. In fact, it even seems a little hypocritical that we created this list considering Phil's Chinese name is Fe Li Pu! :)

Here they are.....
---YoYo
---YuYu
---BoBo
---RoRo
---Sun
---Sunny
---KiKi
---Aih
---Our
---Happy
---WieWie
---Nelum
---Peko
---Lovey (not LoveLy...just Lovey)
---Handsome
---Pinky
---Amily (not Emily)
---A boy named Alice
---PiPi (pronounced "pee pee")
---Teeth
---Chest
---A boy named Jenny
---King
---Grape
---Navel
---A boy named Gretel
---Nretel
---Egg
---Eggs