Sunday, January 10, 2010

Embarrassing moment in interpreting.

I love interpreting for my church.  It is never dull.  Like today, for example, where I turned beet red due to embarrassment.  It started out like any normal service.  The day before I get info, like what song we will sing, scriptures that will be read, and if there are difficult words in Greek or Hebrew that will be referanced, Pastor sends that information to me so I can know how to finger spell them and the tech team so they can put it up on the board that I can see.  I am very thankful to all the church staff who do all this stuff for me to make my interpreting job easier!  I couldn't ask for better.  So how did I end up red faced?  The Pastor, on a whim, starts listing different greek words, and then realized that I had to attempt to finger spell them.  So he decides to say, "Sorry Brenda."  His wife is also names Brenda.  Realizing this, he starts explaining that he didn't mean his wife but me.  He continues to explain that if they hear him apologize to a "Brenda" it usually mean me or the Tech Team leader who is also named Brenda.  Then, he starts explaining that he didn't get me the info on the greek words a head of time like he normally does.  By this point he has completely lost his train of thought and just kept digging a deeper hole!  Mean while I'm interpreting this mess and I started to feel sorry for the guy, but when he said "Where was I?"  I couldn't resist, I piped up and said "Embarrassing me!"  I was so red that Lesetta made note of it.  Thank God Gaylord (deaf friend who would have had a field day with the situation.) slept through the whole thing, HA! 
I know most would be thinking he should be the one who is embarrassed and maybe he was, but it was him calling attention to me that got me.  I like to pretend that only the deaf are paying attention to me.  It helps me get though the service if I don't think about all the eyes that might be on me.  But I knew at that point everyone was looking at me and I blushed hard.  Hopefully next week I can go back to believing most of the church doesn't see me.

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