- No no
- Yo yo
- Eel
- Eudora
- Apple
- Cash
- Handsome
- Fish
- Simba
Occasionally, a student would start school without an English name and their parents would ask me to choose one. After thinking long and hard about this, I decided to name an 8 year old girl after my BFF, Darcie. This suggestions was met with much embarrassment and head shaking.
Apparently in Chinese, Darcie translates to "hit and kill."
What verb/noun/adjective would you choose for a name, given the option?
11 comments:
I love that a kid called themselves handsome! When I worked in a school in Cambodia some of the kids had such funny names, always made me laugh! Hope you're having a great time.
Sarah also had a student who said to me, "if you run and jump and hop, you will not be so fat." and i thought to myself, "dear fat kid, you are probably right." i wanted to marry him right there, but he was only five.
oh no this reminds me about a story I read a really long time ago where Chinese students had legally changed their names to odd things like Tube sock and Ketchup!
Haha. Kids say the darndest things.
I'm a little worried about the child who chose the name "eel."
Favorite food? Or just slippery?
HI
This comment is a bit late, but i only just stumbled across your blog and read it.
Here in South Africa the ethnic people have their "traditional" names, but then they also have "English names". These include:
Christmas
Perseverance
Examtion (obviously a misspelt Examination)
Finger
Lucky
Happiness
Patience
Deliverance
Beauty
Lovedalia (don't know where that one came from!)
These are only a few - some names can be really entertaining!
It used to be that they called themselves (during Apartheid) these names so that white people can pronounce their names. Their ethnic names can be quite difficult to pronounce: Xoliswa (the X is pronounced Z), Sicelo (the C is a sucking sound, rather than a S-sound), Radebe (the R is pronounced a hard G, like when you'd try to dislodge a piece of popcorn from your throat), Thandiswa, Mohlanthe, Kgwela (again the throat-clearing G)... But now, many years after the end of Apartheid, they are using their traditional names proudly, which is great.
Anyway... just a little (late) contibution. Great blog, btw.
Cheers
My friend Jessica spent some months working in a school in South Africa, and came across children called Bunker, Fanta, Drumbeat and, more unfortunately, Wanker...
One of my students in Shanghai named themselves "Ball" maybe because it is simple and easy to spell? He was a great guy, I just never could get used to calling on him in class..."Yes, Ball?"
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