Thursday, November 6, 2008

my name is...

So I've started to forget what my name really is. Everyone here--all of the Ecuadorians--pronounce my name with a Spanish (Ecuadorian?) accent, so now my name has two parts (Allee-zon) rather than the three syllable North American pronunciation (All-i-son). I hear this all the time, especially as my students call me by my first name. (It's a school tradition to address teachers by their first names.) So now I find myself introducing myself as Allee-zon. It's kind of a problem.

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