Once upon a time, there was a girl named Ling Wu, who lived in Taiwan with her family. Her entire life she grew up there and spoke Chinese, until she reached the age of 15 and flew by herself all the way to Kentucky to attend high school without knowing any English. When she arrived, there was only one other Chinese person there! The other girl's name was Shun Liu, who was one year older than Ling Wu, and had thick, short, black hair. They quickly became friends. Ling Wu struggled to learn English, despite her friend's kind effort to tutor her, but excelled in math and was in many advanced classes. Even so, she was often bullied about her small English vocabulary, despite her wide knowledge of math. Every bully in the school would tease her about her English and ask One. Exact. Same. Question.

"Do you eat dogs?" Not understanding what they were saying she ignored them. Until, after school one day, a bully wasn't being careful and asked her that same question in front of the principal. The next day, at the end of the morning announcements, the principal made a surprising announcement and said,

"And finally, anybody who is caught teasing Ling Wu or Shun Liu will be severely punished or possibly expelled. Have a nice day. "Over the next few weeks Ling was learning more and more English. It had been a while since somebody had teased her, but that went downhill quickly. A few days later, a rather wide 10th grader (in Ling's opinion) named Matt Johnson came up to her after class, yanked her long and silky dark brown hair and slammed her into the nearest open locker and said sneering about to close close and lock the door shut,

"You suck at English! You can't even say a paragraph without help! Let's see if you'll learn anything when trying to get out of this crusty old locker!" Waiting for him to finish, Ling, using her improved knowledge of English, said back to him.

"At least my math is better than yours!" she said. Shocked, Matt let go of the locker handbacked off and bumped into the office secretary who heard every single word, grabbed Matt's arm and said,

"You are coming with me for a little field trip to somewhere called the principal's office." She marched him to the principal's office and as he left Ling Wu heard Matt yell after her,

"Nobody wants you here! Go back to your dorky Taiwan and don't come back!" Shun Liu rushed over and helped Ling Wu up. She dusted off her skirt and the two of them set out to their next class together. Ever since then, Ling Wu and Shun Liu never saw Matt Johnson and his chubby, sneering face ever again. When Ling Wu reached 12th grade she graduated at the top of the class in every subject including English! She applied to 10 different colleges and got accepted into all of them! She chose to go to a very well known computer science college and moved to California. Ling Wu thrived at her new school and made many new friends. All of her years there, she was always at the top of the class and never gave up a chance to help others. Every week, her family in Taiwan would call her and tell her these exact same words,

"Ling Wu. We are so proud of you! No matter what, you always have our support! We love you!" Those words boosted her to do her best and kept learning. She spent 14 years in college and training to be a doctor. She eventually earned her MD and was now Dr. Wu. She began as an awkward young woman struggling to speak English, to a strong woman that became a doctor who speaks fluently in English. She worked very hard, became very well known as the best doctor in her area, and lived happily with her husband, and two children. No one ever teased Ling Wu again, and her old classmates even came to congratulate her on all she accomplished and to apologize to her about what they did many years ago. Shun Liu and Ling Wu stayed in contact. They helped each other out and although Ling Wu was very busy, she always made time for Shun Liu and her own family. Ever since then Ling Wu lived happily ever after.

The End