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**Xin Xiao Jing**

**I. PROFILE **

**Name** Xin Xiao Jing **Age** 16 (Ages over the course of the journal) **Gender** Female **Occupation** Student Plantation Worker in a rubber plantation in the Indochina Block **Appearance** Xiao Jing has a slight build with medium height. She has dark hair, a soft face, and bright smile. She was born in Shanghai but was adopted by a French woman who took her to Vietnam when she was two years old. Xiao Jing has been working and growing up in that plantation; the rubber plantation is her home. She is extremely bright and brave. Xiao Jing is not afraid to try things and she is very independent. Sometimes she can be very stubborn, but most of the time she is capable of making decisions that will be beneficial to a variety of different people. Xiao Jing's parents are unknown but the French woman tells her that she had a younger sister who was too young to be adopted. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Her younger sister's name was Xiao Eun and she was two years younger that Xiao Jing (her whereabouts are unknown).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Location **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Family **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Her mother is the French woman since she adopted, cared for, schooled, and brought up this child ever since she was two years old. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The other girls adopted by the French woman are her sisters. There names are: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wendy: Fourteen years old <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Penny: Thirteen years old <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ana: Twelve years old <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">These four girls grew up with each other and were educated together under the supervision of the French woman. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Xiao Jing was home-schooled by the French women a long with a few other girls that were also adopted by this woman. Xiao Jing is a smart girl and has mastered a level of knowledge much higher than her age. She studies hard and stays buried in books every night after a long day's work. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chinese, Vietnamese <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Xin Xiao Jing's main concern is to enter college and try to get a level of education that will earn her a job in Vietnam. She loves the rubber plantation but wants to experience something much greater. When she hears about the arrival of Japanese soldiers in her current home, the French woman urges her to leave Vietnam and return back to Shanghai to escape being caught by the soldiers and getting enslaved.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Education **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Languages you speak **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Your main concerns at this time and in life **

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 200%;">II. DIARY ENTRIES **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">LINKS TO OTHER PAGES <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 1: Mikaella Hahn <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 2<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">: Sean D Kim <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 3: Annie Namkoong <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 4: Nancy Kim

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">DIARY ENTRIES <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 1 (Shelley Ant Farm) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 2 (Shelley Ant Farm) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 3 (Shelley Ant Farm) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Diary Entry 4 (Shelley Ant Farm)