Day 1- My First Orsem Memory

I was seated between Lauren and Pao.

Pao, at that time, was very perky, although her bathroom addiction (similar to Cheen) was already very telling. I got hints of this addiction when, during a game at Berch (or was it Kostka?), she asked me to go with her to the bathroom. She was very persistent. I refused and she still went alone.

Girls never go to bathrooms alone.

Lauren was, for lack of a better term, demure—-devoid of any hint of corny-ness in her. However, there was a point in the Orsem when she just announced, like any other news, that Rudy Fernandez was dead. And she knew of this because it was village news.