Jeez! Well, The Wotch is set in high school, and one of the teachers was Professor Sorgaz.

At one point, Anne (The Wotch -- which is more or less a title to signify the most powerful witch) had different aspects of her personality split off, and they caused all kinds of mayhem, including changing the gender and age of many people.

Professor Sorgaz was changed into an Asian high school girl name Mingmei Wu, and everyone believed that they'd known her already. She spoke a broken English. When at last everything was sorted out again -- people put back in their own bodies, returned to their own age and/or gender, Mingmei asked to stay the way she was.

Someone realized that she was not the authentic article when they understood that her first name was Japanese and last name Chinese and that there was no possible explanation for her broken English.

Since then, she's spoken normally, but is somewhat shy. Her best friend now is a green blob that lives in her backpack and usually takes the form of a cleaning maid.

Hope this clarifies things for you, especially as to its connection with your own life.

Now I'm Fanny from Mansfield Park. I've not read the story;
however, as Fanny was a shy retiring girl, and a poorer relation
who was less fortunate than her sisters were; this one is fairly
accurate too.

If anyone knows the story, I'd appreciate knowing if the girl had
any redeeming graces. Did she danced well, and read more widely
than her fellows? Did she gave of herself in friendship not often,
but when given - with abandon? Was she a person whose eye could find
the scars that only the heart knows, and who never looked upon but few
of her fellows without some good measure of sympathy or compassion;
despite never having received that self same empathy from them?

If so, I'd love to know. I may even read the story.

Sarah Lynn