I am Lisa Wu and I have been teaching at City Tech since 1993. I believe this was before many of you were born!
My mom and me!
My name a mixture of my two cultural identities: American first name, Chinese last name. I am an ABC, American-Born Chinese. Wu is a very common Chinese family name. My family name Wu is called “mouth sky Wu” because my surname Wu is written with the character for mouth on top and the character for sky on bottom.
Here is my Chinese surname.
I really don’t know how to write Chinese, how to read Chinese, and I speak a limited amount of Chinese only enough to speak about simple things. As I get older I feel the pull of my Chinese roots, wanting to know more about the land of my parents, the story of my parents, the history of the Chinese side of me. In Summer 2018 and 2019, I travelled to China and taught at Xian Jiao Tong University.
Here I am with teaching colleagues at XJTU.
I love learning languages and often wish I had studied languages as my major in college. I also speak Spanish. I believe that one advantage of speaking other languages is that you can travel easily and immerse youself in other cultures. I have been to Indonesia, Singapore, Spain, China in recent years. And in the USA, recently I have traveled to New Orleans (a great city), Los Angeles, upstate NY, and Ohio.
I like cooking and trying different international cuisines. I am learning to play tennis and do Zumba and swim laps regularly. I also play piano and have studied since I was 8.
A surprising fact is that I grew up in West Virginia. I participated in competitive gymnastics and was the first girl in WV to do a backflip on the balance beam. I have had a long and arduous educational journey involving studying chemistry pre-med then dropping out of med school and wandering and finally landing in NYC, working in publishing, and studying literature. It has been a long journey, but I am glad to be here. I have enjoyed my work and met wonderful students at City Tech.
Introduction: Marc Jeune
My name is Marc Jeune I am a freshman a City Tech the reason why I came to City Tech is because my high school had a partnership with City Tech mechanical department and if I had enlisted City Tech I would have gotten credit for the work I have done in highschool. As a young chi have I always been a person that liked to work with my hands, I guess the reason why is because my father is an engineer so I grew up watching him fix things with his hands and I grew up liking the experience because I would ask to help him and it felt really citifying learning how to screw items together then from me being a child it has never changed that I wanted to become an engineer as I get older this is why I am in the mechanical engineer major.
A hobby that I have been interested in that always calms me down is lifting weights, going to the gym is a safe place for me knowing that I could improve mentally and physically, and if I fail a set there’s no rush because there’s always time to improve and no due date. The reason why I started going to the gym is that I always liked anything with fitness. But it all started when I younger 16 years I did gymnastics and I loved it. I was going to competitions and it got really serious when my parents let me go on a meet at West Point on a Friday during school hours. But then I stopped because of quartine, but once things started to open up the group from my gymnastics started to split apart. So then I thought about something similar to gymnastics and it sparked in my head a fitness gym. But even when I was going to the gym I didn’t have that spark to push me to know what I was doing at the gym. But I have an older brother that helped me with what I was doing and it made me motivated to head to the gym more because he trained me on how to do certain things correctly.