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Name is a mark to distinguish your from other people.

Normally always contained some meaning in that when you got the name. My name is one for boy. So when I was in elementary school, sometime I was assigned to boys’ team in the sports class, because the teacher thought I was a boy.

Name also has some pronunciation in that because will call you. When I was in Japan, my name was changed to Japanese pronunciation. That was Japanese way, they were never going to pronounce your name in your native language, they just say anything in Japanese way.

Every name has its spell and writing. In China, probably there were 300,000 people have the same name, of course the same characters. That is crazy, uh.

Not so many people have the same writing as my name does, but some time people always misspell it or miswrite it.

I like sports very much. I like jogging, badminton. When I was in Beijing, I played tennis for a little while. At that time, when summer comes, all the other students went back home; only I stayed in the campus. One summer, I got to play tennis by myself. There is the way everybody knows. There was a big wall on the campus. Every time I just beat up the wall. Of course the ball would bounce back, so I need not run to get the balls.
The second time I played tennis was the time when I was in Tokushima city. When lived in a nice place, which is near the Tokushima ground. Also there was a wall there. And there is a tennis court there too. The sweet thing was that I could pull my husband out to play tennis. We enjoyed that time very much.
I also like watching sports very much. When I listen to the sound of the ball heating the racket, my heart is as excited as the players in the court.
You know, Wimbledon is acknowledged to be the premier tennis tournament in the world and the priority of The All England Lawn Tennis Club, which hosts The Championships, is to maintain its leadership into the twenty-first century
If I could get Wimbledon debenture tickets and go to watch the game, I would be happiest person in the world.

I came to USA last September. Soon we applied the guide book –Welcome to the United States, a guide for New Immigrants. After some weeks, we finally got that. Yesterday I took the book out to check some information because I found that in some Chinese sites are saying different thing. And then I noticed a thing, which I do not feel happy about that and I should be very careful in the future.

The thing is this. The book I got was printed in 2005. and in the internet there is a revised version (Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (English Version)) of that in Resources for New Immigrants.

Things of one kind come together, and people of one group crowd together. Now social networks are very popular. There is Facebook, which started from some university. There is BBS in every university. There is family site, which is only for some family member. There are fan clubs for stars. Do you like football? football picks is your home, where you will see great members there.

In USA, if you were disabled to do something, the government has some law to make other people to you. For example, if you were not able to talk but you wanted to go to university, there were some people to help you to do the thing as normal people will do. In China, if you were disabled, you were not allowed to apply for the thing that normal people do. In the application form, it was written very clearly that the person must be very healthy and very normal, otherwise you were not allowed to do apply.

When I was in China, I did not take so many showers. When I was a little kid, we even did not have running water, for some other reason, I did not have so many baths in my hometown. After I went to Beijing, I lived in the University. For all the students in the campus, there was only one outdoor bathing place. I took bath once a week. I already felt so satisfied with the fact that once I got into that I could use the hot water as I wanted.
After I went to Japan, I had my own first room. I also had my own first bath tab in my room. From that time I began to take bath two or three times in one week. Gradually I felt that it was really a pleasure to take a hot bath. It could take away all the stress.
After some days, I went to my friend’s house, where I stayed for more than one week. They had a nice bath tab, in which there was some warming machine to keep the water warm in any level you set up. From this thing, I always think Japanese ladies are very nice. They warm up the water in the bath tab and wait for the husband coming back to take.
After I came to USA, I noticed that the bath tab in USA is much different from that in Japan. It is much flat here. In Japan, the bath tab was so deep that when you sit in the tab you could make the water cover your shoulder. And I also noticed that there was no shower hose in the bath tab. But from the TV I noticed that there are a lot of hot tubs in USA. To keep the water warm, you can get Hot Tub Covers. All of them look so classical and deluxe. Now I know that maybe Japanese like delicate thing and USA like deluxe stuff.