Last Mandarin class

I'm no closer to learning how to jazzing up this poor page. I might have to switch to one of those cutesy websites where they have the panda bear graphics !! ~~ Dec '08 Look! I figured out the graphics and found my own panda bear. I love this guy balancing the Dim Sum (dumplings) I did have something interesting happen yesterday. Ok so it was the last day of my beginners mandarin class at the Asian Cultural center IU (love them). Since I was the first student there, I asked Yeshu if she would help me with the name I had picked out and see if it meant anything in Chinese. I spelled out Ja- Lee- a and she said that: Jia (1) means good Li (4) means pretty Ya (3) means classy She was pretty impressed that I came up with that without knowning what it meant first. I was just damn glad it didn't mean anything weird !! Now I just gotta figure out how to spell it.... JaLiah goes well with Jeremiah, JaLeea looks very weird but I want to call her JaLee after her daddy hummmmm. Then I worry that you shouldn't have an "a" at the end of your first and middle name (like who is gonna know). There is alot of debate over keeping children's chinese names. Technically they are assigned by the orphanage director and are not very "original". They could be the season they were born and the region they were from. After so many children per year, you wonder how many times the director rolls the list over and starts again !!! The only way to know is to wait for your referral and see if you like it.