Stories from the Oasis

For a little comedic entertainment I will tell you some funny stories now.

So this happened on day 2 . . . aka . . . the kids on the program are still deciding what they think about eachother and forming impressions of these people they will live with for the next four months.  And when we had a full table and one person wanted to join we didn't want to be exclusive so we jammed another table into it and create a ginormous party table.  This is important because the following incident occurred with like 10 people watching me.  Anyway, so they were talking about which teachers everyone had for Old Testemant, either Wood or Belnap.  Unfortunately, right before they asked me, I had eaten a huge piece of roast, or something that takes like 100 chews before you swallow.  So I, thinking this was a good idea, put three fingers up in the shape of a "W" and shook my head, signifiying that I did not have Wood, I had Belnap.  But this just looked rediculous to them, so they all started laughing confused.  I had Wood?  What?  So I shook my head more vigerously with my three fingers up, which just made them laugh harder.  Now, one thing to know about me, I laugh, like all the time, I laugh the hardest and the longest, and it really is uncontrollable.  Also, when other people are laughing I always laugh to.  So by this point in the conversation I am laughing really hard.  Like breathing hard laughing, aka not chewing my food.  So then they are silent for like 3 seconds after they are done laughing and see that I am still laughing, which just makes them laugh harder.   And then they would just look at me, waiting for an answer taunting "Wait, so are you in Wood or Belnap?" And with my, uhh, tendency to throw up whenever I eat too big bites of things, I knew that it I tried to swallow and then start laughing, a disaster would occur.  And lets just say I didn't want any of their first impression to be that I was the girl that laughed so hard she threw up on everyone.  Not exactly a part of Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, ya know.  So I sat there as they died laughing and then I died laughing and then I would chew like 5 more times before they would look at me again and I would start laughing again.  This lasted for literally 90 seconds before I swallow and choked out Belnap.  I have Belnap, at which point they all started clapping and cheering and laughing again.  None the less, the boys sitting at that table will still tease me "Wait, I can't remember.  Whose OT class are you in Liza?".

Other stories from the oasis (or meal room) . . . we have a center cat.  Like someone fed it one day and now it always appears every single mealtime.  And on like the second day me and some people I was eating breakfast with decided to name it.  And I suggested we name it after a disease, therefore reminding everyone not to touch it.  My idea was Sypillus and call it Sybil, but that was nixed because you would have to do a lot more than just touch the cat to get that (although you can't get Giardia from petting cats either so whatever)  Anyway, the cats name is now Gia (Giardia is its full name, but Gia is a nickname).  The funny thing is now it is starting to respond to its name because everyone calls it Gia.  Haha, I hope that that is part of the legend we will leave in the center.