Danni Yu

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Danni (丹妮) is my given name. In Chinese, "Dan" means rosy and "Ni" means young girl. The two "N"s should both be pronounced in my name, but unfortunately, most people (if not all the people) in Dickinson College read it as "Danny", which sounds a little bit naughty for a girl's name in Chinese.

Background and Childhood

I grew up in a classic Chinese water town Suzhou which is about 45 minutes' drive to Shanghai and famous for its silk and private gardens. Before Elementary School, I liked to visit the Classic Gardens and take a lot of pictures. My mom tried to make me behave as a classic lady when I was young, though part of her wished I could be a cute boy. So things ended up twisted. Sometimes I dressed like a boy, but walked like a girl; and sometimes the other way around. My dress were either totally tomboyish or overly feminine.

At the age of 4, one day I had a dream that I was playing the piano, so my mom sent me to learn it. Sadly, when I was 8, dancing looked more attractive and I quited the piano to take dancing classes. Still sadly, my best friend in elementary school went to learn drawing and I followed. Then in 7th Grade, I took a semester of guitar classes; 8th Grade flute classes, 9th Grade the graphic designing... Now I definitely agree that to some extent, dipping into everything equals to into nothing at all, though it did satisfy my goal of trying as much as I could in childhood.

Education and Activities

Education Record

• Dickinson College,Carlisle,PA
• Suzhou High School,China
• Passport Language School,Oxford,England
• Lida Middle School,China
• Pingjiang Experimental School,China

Elementary School,Middle School and High School

Elementary School is from 1st Grade to 6th Grade in my town. Something must have happened in the 3rd Grade because I was too quiet before and too talkative after. But I cannot remember what made me change. What I can remember is our classroom had all kinds of insect specimen and something like human brain soaking in water(which looked disgusting and didn't help my Biology at all).

Middle school begins from 7th Grade. In 8th Grade a car hit me on my way to school on the day Spider ManI was shown in China and helped me escape a whole semester's P.E. classes which was beneficial since P.E. was never my dominance. Our graduation from middle school ended with bottles of Champagne and a trip to a nasty city.

High school is from 10th Grade to 12th Grade. I took 3 years of Math, Chinese, English, Physics and Chemistry, 2 years of History, Information Technology and Arts, 1 year of Biology and Geography. I worked for the Student Council as a videographer, so back at my home there are tons of video clips that recorded my high school days, most of which I was too lazy to edit and export.

College

• Courses: First-year Seminar, Elementary Japanese, Calculus I, Introduction to Computer Science I
• Clubs: Astronomy Club, Circle K
• Residence Hall: Drayer

Activities

• Red Cross volunteer

• World Inline Cup volunteer

• Internship in Suzhou International Expo Center as an interpreter and Consul receptionist

• Team Accompany for Korosa (Korean National Handball Team) and Kyung-hee University Handball Team,Summer,2007

• Team Accompany for U.S. National Speed Skating Team,Summer,2005

• Suzhou 66 Skating Club

Trivia

• I am afraid of birds(except penguin), espeically ptarmigan; I cannot even stand seeing the pictures of them! But I enjoy eating them.

• My roommate is Andrea. She's so nice and sweet.

• I canont roll my tongue horizonally.

• Learning both Korean and Japanese makes me so confused.

• I sent 2200+ cellphone text messages a month during summer holiday.

Other Information

• My Youtube Account(public)

• My online gallery(password required for some albums)

• My MSN space(password required)

Friends' Links

• Kolu

• LacVert

• Hole

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