Student names and naming students

Here are some names the students have given themselves:

 

• Aaron (I tell the student that that is the middle name of my nephew).
• Austin (I tell the student about Stone Cold Steve Austin even though it means nothing to him).
• Boris (This student is nothing like Boris Yeltsin).
• Eugene ( a great name.  I call him Eugene, Eugene, the dancing machine.  Of course, he doesn't know of what I speak.)
• LJ (This student took the initials of his Chinese name to make his English name.  A good idea which I will try whenever I give students English names).
• LZ (ditto with LJ).
• Queen (Like students whose Chinese name Wang means King, this girl called herself Queen because that is what her Chinese name is).
• Poplary (His Chinese name means Poplar in English.  I told him to drop the "y").

 

I have been tempted to name students with obscure names from the Bible.