{"id":171,"date":"2019-07-08T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/natalie-cunningham\/?p=171"},"modified":"2019-07-21T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T16:13:59","slug":"sorry-ma-i-have-changed-me-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/natalie-cunningham\/2019\/07\/08\/sorry-ma-i-have-changed-me-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Ma&#8230; I&#8217;ve changed me name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I still have to make it legal of course&#8230;..but the name is Cunningham, Ly Cunningham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s legitimate yes, my Vietnamese name is Ly. I introduce myself as Ly now, colleagues call me Ly and I even have a new email address&#8230;lycunningham32@gmail.com in case you want to get in touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week I was warned not to introduce myself as Nat during the field trips. I was told that farmers will literally laugh at me because Nat means broken or rubbish in Vietnamese. Not the worst I thought but, O.K it&#8217;s not great I&#8217;ll admit. Apparently Natalie isn&#8217;t a good option either because it is too hard to remember and say; hence I was rechristened Ly (which means beautiful flower naaawww).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off I went, happy out with my new name! Of course when I arrived, the Vietnamese women we were working with decided I shouldn&#8217;t be called Ly at all, and wanted to call me Snow White instead. Naturally this name came from their sheer amazement\/disbelief at how pale I was (even though I thought I had a fabulous tan&#8230;.gutted). Naturally, I took it all in good spirits and we took plenty of pictures together and used googled translate to help us have a little giggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/natalie-cunningham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/07\/0A5CAD72-99DD-42D6-859B-95BB4D4DC9F8-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/natalie-cunningham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/07\/0A5CAD72-99DD-42D6-859B-95BB4D4DC9F8-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/natalie-cunningham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/07\/0A5CAD72-99DD-42D6-859B-95BB4D4DC9F8-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/natalie-cunningham\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2019\/07\/0A5CAD72-99DD-42D6-859B-95BB4D4DC9F8-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Having the chats before one of the focus group discussions.P.S. 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