Names

I added four new classes today at my co-school. They are 3rd and 4th graders and of course I had to introduce myself and it had to be pretty simple. I went around to all the students asking their names and telling them mine. Some of the names almost made me crack up and say really, I mean names like apple and bananna. Then I learned that my co-teacher gives the kids who have a really hard time names that are easy and that they will definately know, namely words from their phonics like apple and bannana. I hope these kids get better at English soon so they can get better names and I hope that they don't for some reason decide to keep them and end up applying to graduate school in the US with a name like Bannana Hua. On the upside there are 2 Lions and one Tiger. Tiger won a game and I couldn't help myself from saying Grrrrreat! Luckily I just look like a strange foreign teacher when I do that since children's cereals aren't too popular here.