中秋快乐！Zhōng Qiū Kuài Lè

Mid Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) takes place on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. That's today, September 12th, 2011!

for an overview of Mid Autumn Festival, follow the links here below. they'll take you to some helpful articles on the subject:

http://taoism.about.com/od/holidays/a/MidAutumn_Festival.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Festival

Important Festival Vocabulary:
zhōng 中 center, middle
qiū 秋 autumn, fall
jié 节 festival
zhōng qiū jié 中秋节 mid autumn festival
kuài lè 快乐 happy, joyous
zhōng qiū kuài lè 中秋快乐 happy mid autumn festival
yuè bǐng 月饼 moon cake
shǎng yuè 赏月 to admire the moon

第二十三课的录音：Dì Èr Shí Sān Kè De Lù Yīn

找名字：Name Search

First step - finding a compatible surname.  You might pick one that sounds like your English last name.  Or you can pick based on the meaning of the character.

You can investigate the most common family names (surnames) and their meanings: here

Here's a very good tool to help you explore a given name that suits you: here
And another: here

This tool also provides several options: here

There's also the classic phonetic way (transliteration) for a foreigner to convert their name to Chinese: here

Lastly, I'd like to share a nice blog post by ChinesePod superstar Jenny Zhu on the nature of Chinese names: here