My Uncle’s Blessing

Yang Liu 

ESLINTG 99 CE 

08/29/2020  

Second Draft 

My Uncle’s Blessing 

Do you know who was the first Chinese woman in space? Her name is Liu Yang (刘 洋). I’m honored to have the same name as her. My father told me that his brother chose it for me. My uncle wished me to study well so that I could study abroad.  

He chose this name because “刘” means “Stay” and “洋” means “abroad”. He really hoped that I could stay and study abroad when I got older. The name is his blessing to me. Maybe because of his blessing, my family got a chance to immigrate to the United States. I am learning ESL and live abroad now. It’s really a nice story behind my name. It was like a dream come true. However, I don’t like this name. There are so many people with the same as me because in China almost all parents want their kids to study abroad. I think it’s not special at all. In my high school, I met two schoolmates who had the same name. It caused me some trouble. For example, it was hard to find my new classroom when the first day I went to my high school. We only find our classrooms according to our own names, but there were three same names in three different classrooms.

Finally, I’m glad to share my nickname with you. It is just Yang and sounds like “Young”. I prefer it because I am young now and I think the better world is waiting for me.