New Beginning 756

What was I, Danielle Crupp, doing on a flight to Tokyo? Especially with a name like Crupp?

My name had always been unremarkable until Japanese I class my freshman year at Rock Creek U. Taking roll, Murata-sensei got to me and stopped. "Uh, Crupp is not a good name in Japanese," she announced. "We don't have the u sound like in up, so we say your name with an 'a' like in 'Cr-Ap.'" She shook her head. "You cannot be 'Ms. Crap.'"

No kidding.

But then Murata-sensei gave me a real Japanese name, Kuro...