My student's have all been asking me for English names...I guess because it's easier to pronounce for English speakers. So fair's fair, I told them if I gave them English names they were going to have to give me a Chinese name. We had a contest in class to come up with the best names and then the class as a whole voted on it. My new name is Shi Kai. Shi is a common family name like Smith and Kai means victory. They said I could shorten it to Sky. Just to make sure they weren't pulling my leg I asked a few Chinese folks what it meant without telling them what my kids had said and they confirmed that they weren't playing some horrible joke on me. They originally tried to phonetically spell my name in Chinese but it just wouldn't work...
Oh, and yesterday some of them told me I wasn't really white but my face was more of a yellow color. More on that later.
Oh, and yesterday some of them told me I wasn't really white but my face was more of a yellow color. More on that later.
