Month: September 2017

My Chinses full name is ZhuZhennan. Zhu is my family name, and Zhennan is my first name. In Chinese, Zhen means bracing up and Nan is the name of a kind of strong tree in Chinese. My parents want me to have a positive attitude and being strong like a Nan tree.

When I was a child, I was embarrassed by my family name Zhu. In Chinese, it is pronounced same as the animal pig. Many of my classmates liked to make fun of it by writing my name as the Chinese word pig. However, I began to pay no attention to that after primary school.
I think the name is just like your code, but it does not define you. Our parents named us with their huge expectations on us. After all, what shows who you are is what you think and what you do, so be proud of your name and live your life.

In China, the full moon has a special meaning of reunion (family reunion). There is a saying in Chinese that marriages are prepared on the moon by a god named Yue Lao. People said that Yue Lao has a record book with the names of all the people in the world and he would decide who would you fall in love with by his judgment. He is like the Cupid in China. There is another reason why the full moon is so important in Chinese which is Moon Festival. Everybody goes up high mountains see the moon and washing all the best with their family.

I began to learn English at third grade. The way we study is all about translation. For example, I learn the English word Apple equal to Chinese word Pingguo, not the red spherical fruit. Therefore, every time I saw Apple I thought about the Chinese word Pingguo, then I translated to English.

Group 3

The photo is obviously photoshopped to us. You do not even need to look at the picture underneath where you can clearly see the poorly edited photo. In the first picture, you can even notice that there is a “white box” circling around the plane, showing that this is just an image of a plane and not a real one. Nikon posted this on their FB page and was ridiculed by other FB users that noticed this quickly. If you’re going to manipulate a photo, you need to at least hide the evidence. And for the last two photos, we feel like they were just making fun of the original one.  http://pth.izitru.com/2016_01_00.html

Markus, Blake, Avis