Up in Ontario

What is in a Name?

Julie Rossignol writes from China, where she is teaching and writing:

Things are good (if only I could breathe) and my students are great. Many of them have strange self-given English names: Wing, Cloud, Beyond, Rain (three of them), Double Red, Windy, Valendon (?), Heathcliff (!), Scarlett, Groggs (?), Javendsin (?), Sunny (four of them), Snow, Echo, Giggles, Potato and one really big husky guy named himself Simone for some reason. I told him there was no way I could call him that without laughing so he changed his name to Simon.

Look for Julie's writing in the upcoming edition of the Lonely Planet Taiwan guidebook.