Jean Van Leeuwen: Hello, my name is Jean Van Leeuwen. That's a Dutch name which means of the lions. As a child I thought that was pretty impressive, I was a lion, how cool.

Van Leeuwen is a hard name to write, those loops go on forever, and a hard one to pronounce. Lots of people say Van Lee-win. Others say Van Lew-ellen, which seems strange. The real Dutch pronunciation is Van Lay-ven, but since we're in America, we try to keep it simple and just say Van Leeuwen. Oh well. It's just a name.