Feb 10 2010

I have a funny story that I thought I would share with everyone. :] I hope you all think it was as funny as I did, and if not then that's just too bad.
Today in ASL we discussed how big of a problem it can be, when you slightly change the shape of your hands, palm orientation or movement. I know these are boring minor details to this story, but they are necessary. Anyway, so she told us the following story:
I had a friend, who had to intrepret for a church meeting, which happened to be a missionary homecoming. He had just returned from Poland, and was giving his talk. The man, couldn't remember the sign for Poland to save his life. (The actual sign is taking your thumb and grazing the tip of your nose multiple times) He didn't know this however, so he made his own up. (His sign was taking the handshape for the letter p, and doing the nose grazing action) He went through the entire talk using this sign, saying things like "Oh I just loved the people in 'Poland,' I cannot wait to return to 'Poland,' everything in 'Poland' is so nice...." on and on with things like this, interchanging his made up sign for Poland. All of the Deaf people in the ward were acting very uncomfortable, and he didn't realize this until the end of the meeting. When it was all finished, a very very old man came up to the man, and informed him of the correct sign for Poland. The man was extremely embarassed, and sorry, and apologized for confusing everyone. The old man didn't leave however, and asked him if he knew what he had been signing the entire time. The man intrepreting curiously answered no. He was then informed of the meaning of the sign.
Penis.
He had been using penis instead of Poland throughout the entire meeting, making the Deaf people very uncomfortable, and the missionary seem very strange.
I laughed very hard when I heard this story. :]
We also had a fire drill today in our building, because the painter (they are re-painting every hall in the building...why? We don't know. The place is brand new....) accidentally hit the thing. It was bad, because none of the R.As were informed, so we stood in the cold for like twenty minutes, trying to figure out what the heck was going on.
I did accomplish a TON today however, and am glad. Now this weekend, I don't have to even think about school. :] I got two huge projects done like a month in advance, I'm so studious. :]