Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Yu and You

Yu is  my family name, I'm used to hearing it in my language, but it has been changed in Canada.

On the third day after I arrived in Toronto, I went to a driver licence examination centre to take G1 test. After a written examination, I waited for my mark with more than thirty people in a room.

When the examinator gave a mark , he called names one by one. In a approximately 20 minutes waiting, I heard a lots of names, such as Jack, Mary, Peter etc, however, I haven't heard my name and kept on waiting. Suddenly the examinator called the name "you", I looked around, nobody stood up. It should be my turn, but my name's pronunciation  is very different as you, maybe the name was mine.  I walked to him and found that's my examination paper then made sure he called me.

I realized my name has been changed from Yu to You that day, because  english native speakers can't pronounce my chinese name.



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