The Wu Tang Clan

Some boys downstairs, who we called the Brosketeers here on the sixth floor, have started referring to me as the Wu Nian Ji (fifth year) and often greet me by throwing up their makeshift wu nian ji gang sign and asking me how me and my clan is doing. I of like the gang sign, and recently found out that they derived it from the Wu Tang Clan, a "highly influential hip hop group from New York. lol. It caught on pretty fast, so now a lot of the boys also refer to me as the Wu Nian Ji. We're a pretty small group, and nicknames are catching on fast. Most years have their own gang sign. In the picture below, Lily is representing the fourth year 四年级 by trying to do a "四" with her fingers. In addition to the Brosketeers (3 boys who are kind of bro-y and always travel in a pack), we also designated James as Mama (because he takes care of people when they are drunk), Marianne as Papa（because she's also fairly responsible), and my roommate Shazeda is sometimes called Shazam. Lately, we've started referring to this one football guy as Chris Brown because when he is drunk he starts acting kind of violent. lol

Anyhoo, the Wu Nian Ji gang sign kind of caught on. That's not what I'm repping in the picture below though. That's kind of my own version of the Wu Nian Ji when I'm hanging with the other years. I'll throw up different number of fingers depending on which other year I'm hanging with, and here I have four fingers because Lily is a fourth year. If you are thinking that we are getting incestuous and increasingly odd, you would be right.