Greetings!  My name is Gardenia Hung.  Today is Wednesday, March 31, 2010 and a great day to start blogging on WordPress.  I have been a contributor to WordPress while writing for the Tower of Babel, The Multilingual Multicultural Online Journal and Community of Arts and Ideas.  Then,  during the summer of 1998,  I contributed the article, “Tall Ships — Chicago 1998”.  Prior to Babel, I was writing for the professional newsletter sponsored by the Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association and the American Translators Association, the Independent Writers of Chicago, Tower of  Babel, The Multilingual Multicultural Online Journal and Community of Arts and Ideas, and the International Federation of Translators, to include the Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages for multimedia presentations about professional issues in the field of  Teaching Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting Communications.  In addition, I have always been writing and web blogging for Communications, Languages and Culture, Inc. In addition, I have also been editor and writer for community service groups, such as the Friends of the Helen M. Plum Library, the Lombard Service League, Friends of the Parks, Friends of the Courts Advocacy in Lombard, Wheaton, DuPage County and in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  I am very excited to blog for WordPress.