The document describes a conversation between five goldfish - Cleo, Nancy, Fancy, Goldie, and Yellow. Cleo is lonely as the only fish in one fish bowl, while the others live together in another bowl. When they meet, Nancy asks Cleo where she came from. Cleo says PetsMart, and Nancy responds with surprise in her thick southern accent. Nancy and the others then invite Cleo to play by jumping between the two bowls, taking turns leaping farther each time and risking becoming stranded without water.

1. Megan McGehee
First Year Semminar
Harold Blanco
July 9, 2014
“It’s Just a Leap of Faith”
I believe that the one goldfish is lonely being all by itself in the one fish bowl,
while the other fish bowl has four other goldfish in it. The other goldfish started talking
to the one fish. First they asked, “What is your name?” Its name turned out to be Cleo.
Cleo asked the other fish what their names were, “Fancy, Nancy, Goldie, and Yellow”
they replied. Nancy asked Cleo, “What pet store did you come from?” Cleo responded
by saying that she came from “PetsMart.” Nancy, responding in a southern accent as
thick as humans talk, said, “Well, I have never heard of that store before.”
Nancy, Fancy, Goldie and Yellow asked Cleo if she would like to play with them.
Cleo started to play with them by jumping out of her bowl into their bowl. They would
take turns jumping into the other bowl. The tricky part was the next time they would go
jump it would be farther than the time before, because some of the water splashed out
with each jump. For fish that need water to survive they are “taking a leap of faith.”
Otherwise, they might end up being “a fish out of water.”