Response to class on 9/1

I really enjoyed the excerpts we read today,  from "The House on Mango Street" and "Never in a Hurry" because I like leaning about the origin and meaning of names. I know it sounds kind of silly, but I used to go on "baby name" websites just to research and find fun facts about my friends' and family members' names. I also liked looking up the names of my favorite characters in books and movies, jut to see if the meaning of their names fit their characters.

In the "House of Mango Street" excerpt that we read, we learned how even though the narrator was named after her great-grandmother, she didn't want to end up like her great-grandmother did. I sometimes wish that I was named for someone, just so I could relate to that person. But my parents did not pick my name because they wanted to name me after a relative or someone important. It's actually a funny story how they picked "Abigail" as my name. My mom once told me this story of how her and my dad walked around the pre-school in my grandparent's synagogue to get ideas for baby names. It was between "Abigail" and "Amanda" for girls names, and they decided on Abigail, because they liked the nick-name "Abby," which is what everyone calls me now.