My parents were 1 in China. They adopted the traditional values of their culture and passed them 2 to me. But my family 3 in the United Stated for about ten years now. I have even chosen an American name and call myself Wendy. There were not many Asian students in my school when I was 4 , so when I got sick I didn’t know what to do, whether to stay home, go to school. One day when I got home I didn’t feel 5 . My mother felt my forehead and noticed that I had a 6 . She said, “I’d better coin you to 7 the illness so you can go to school tomorrow.” Coining is a Chinese tradition we use to help us feel better when we are sick. A coin is dipped( 浸 ) 8 oil and then its edge is rubbed against the sick person’s chest, back, and neck. Coining 9 . This time it hurt so much that my mother had to put her leg on my back so I would lay still. In the end, I felt better inside, but outside I hurt because of the red lines that appeared 10 the coining.