YN 008 ~ DaYan
This is DaYan. She seems very confident and relaxed. She hopes her sponsors are happy every day and she wants them to know that she would like to help others some day ~ just as they have helped her.
DaYan is named after a bird that flies very far away. This is fitting because she dreams of touring the world but wants to start right here in Yunnan.
YN 009 ~ Wen Renxuan
This is Wen Renxuan (pronounced Jen-Shoe-an). Wen is her family name, Ren means "kind" and Xuan means "to make a choice". She wants to thank her two sponsoring families who have made a "kind choice" in helping her change her life.
Renxuan wants to go to college and then come back to this school to teach English. She wants to be friends with her sponsors for a long time.
YN 011 ~ HongyanHongyan lives very far away from school, so she only goes home once a semester. She misses her village especially the beautiful mountains. She wants to be a Chinese teacher in her village some day but would also like to tour the world. The first place that she would like to see is the ocean.
YN 007 ~ Hongqiong
This is Hongqiong. Hong means "great" and Qiong is a precious jade. She said that her parents gave her that name because they wanted her life to be very beautiful. Hongqiong wants to become a social worker in the mountains of Yunnan.
YN 006 ~ Weng JiaoThis is Weng Jiao. She drew the picture on the MovingMountains-Kids blog. Her name means "gentle, shy and pretty." She made us laugh when she told us that she was named by her grandmother because when she was born, she cried all of the time. Clearly, her name was a wish for the future!
Weng Jiao's mother died of cancer nine years ago, so she hopes to become a doctor who works with cancer patients. In the mean time, she loves to visit the lotus pool near her school and watch the boys play basketball.
