Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada

::Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada::

My notes and my memories: sometimes about a mom - sometimes about a wife - sometimes about a woman - sometimes about our life

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Name::Andrea
From::Small city/town, B.C., Canada
I am a short girl from the west cost of BC, Canada and I am a proud Canadian. I went to Japan in 2000 because my Dad told me I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't. He was right. I lived a good life found my husband from the other side of the world and have a beautiful daughter. Basically we lead a pretty normal life filled with normal ups and downs. We both come from different cultures: me Canadian, him Chinese. Living in Japan was a real eye opener about who I am and about the people I associate myself with. I lived and loved in Japan but the time to move on came upon us and in May of 2006 we left and moved to Canada: a huge move for us all. We are now trying to start up again, remodel our lives and create our future for our family. I now feel like a tourist in the country of my birth, my eyes see different and my life will be forever changed. This blog is my notes and observations of our life, our changes, our adventures and new beginnings. Welcome.
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Friday, February 18, 2005

A few days before JiXiang was born Li, Dad and I went through names tying to find one we liked. I had come up with the name Aisha a long time ago and was quite keen on it. It was very similar to Alisha’s name and meant woman, which is what Andrea means. I thought it would work perfectly. Li was not yet accepting to it as the ‘sha’ was slightly masculine in Chinese. On this name deciding day Dad realized a problem with Aisha on the playground, a bad nickname that would not work. I quickly decided that Aisha would not work and we settled on the name JiXiang.

A few days after JiXiang was born dad and I both went through a tough couple of ‘Alisha days’. The realization that JiXiang would never meet her aunt really hit home to us both. I quickly realized that the emotions that were flooding out of me had actually been sitting within me for quite some time, but pregnancy had somehow kept them at bay. I cried quite hard the one night. I also thanked fate for not allowing us to name our baby Aisha. Now, I don’t think I could have lived with that name and would never have been able took upon my child as the individual which she obviously is. Dad said it right – It wouldn’t have been fair to her.

There is no mistaking that she is a JiXiang and a very individual person. She is also a little monkey, which makes sense as she is was officially born in the year of the monkey. She hates her feet to be bound up in blankets, loves to swing her hands EVERYWHERE, and I have this dreaded feeling that she will be one of those babies that walks before she crawls.

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