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Interdisciplinary Studies or Whatever, Class 3, Wednesday, Period 5 (Galactica Point)

Today, Squall was waiting for the students at Galactica Point, and had ~~handwavily~~ informed his students to meet him there wearing swim wear and carrying towels. That's right, today's lesson is on swimming. ...Of course, this is Squall, so your character might not have gotten the memo. Your choice.

He greeted them wearing only a pair of black swim trunks and his short-sleeve, midriff-baring leather jacket. And his necklace, of course. Never takes that thing off. "All right, class!" he said, once everyone had arrived. "Is Keladry of Whatever here today? Has anyone seen him? At all?" He shrugged. "Whatever. Sign in, everyone." And he whipped the clipboard at someone.

"Okay. So. Today you're going to learn how to swim. Unless you already know how, in which case you're going to laugh with me at the people who almost drown. The important thing to remember is that this is brackish water, so it's going to be easier to float, but it's going to sting if you get it in your eyes. Now, everybody into the water."

Squall tossed his jacket on the sand, waded out until he was a little more than waist deep and turned to face them again. "Okay, stop. Everybody practice floating or whatever. Just lean back and float face-up."

After not nearly enough time, he called out "Okay, stop! Now. You've got four basic strokes -- the easy ones are the crawl, or "freestyle", the backstroke, and the breaststroke. He demonstrated each of them for the students. And there's also the butterfly stroke, but I'm not going to teach it to you because it's hard." He shrugged.

"So. There's a white buoy out there." He pointed. It's out there, about 50 yards, but it's small and the waves make it hard to see. "Swim out there, and come back with one of the things hanging off it."

"Oh, and don't drown."

[ETA:
I forgot to mention: the thing you're getting from the buoy is a bright orange Fish Scale, about two inches across, tied to a length of fishing line. Squall won't explain it without being prompted, but it's a one-time-use item that will do water damage to one enemy if you throw it.]

[~~Wait for OCD~~ Swim along, just join the song/A musical for everyone to have a lot of finny fun]

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Collapse (on the sand) or whatever

Ami Mizuno

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I hope you're wearing your bathing suit!

Ami, who felt almost more at homein the water then out of it, was glad for this easy lesson.

Aravis was better in a river or smaller body of water than the ocean, and...honestly, wasn't that great a swimmer.

She was very glad to have gotten herself a swimsuit, though.

Valentine didn't get the memo. Which was alright, because Valentine didn't have a swimsuit anyhow, and had to make do with pulling off his coat, boots, and t-shirt and wading into the water in his pants.
Valentine had also never been in water that went past his knees in his entire life, and he had the added benefit of only having visibility through two wee pinhole mask eyes.
There was a good possibility that Valentine was going to drown and die a horrible, painful death today.
Only not really, because that would suck.

Naminé, having gotten the memo, was wearing her suit (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Rellyjean/namine/S0704092_G107_005.jpg). She removed her wrap skirt (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Rellyjean/namine/20183.jpg) and hat (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/Rellyjean/namine/194038_A706_M1_NAT.jpg) and waded out into the water, letting the sun warm her face. She didn't really remember any beaches, but something deep inside of her felt like she should, somehow.

Great. Swimming. Water. Oh, Setsuna just loved Squall even more with each and every class, didn't she?

He's not the best swimmer - not much water around Twilight Town unless you go on the train to the beach, and even then... the water doesn't really seem to go much anywhere.

This is different. This is good.

The cold of the water and the lack of anything other than swimming trunks, however, is not.

Having said that, where Squall's in up to his waist comes up to roughly Roxas' chest. He hates being short - he starts swimming almost as soon as he can.

Easier that way.

Jo was a fairly decent swimmer.

Of course that wasn't in the ocean. She waded into the water.

The weather was nice enough that Sam didn't mind getting into the water. He was just thankful to have gotten the message in time to dig out his swimming trunks.

Turtle. Water. Kind of a natural thing, even if Raph wasn't so keen on swimming.

Ha, no, really. But pay attention to the lecture, anyway.

Yeah. Just hang there a bit.

Floating.
Floating was nice.
Except that, apparently, rather than floating, Valentines do a good deal of flailing and sputtering and trying to take in deep breaths that consist of something that is not water.
So, really, floating would be nice. Only Valentine couldn't do it so well.

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Naminé held her legs up and her arms out and floated. The water was so calming. She would have to remember this spot and come back here.

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He doesn't like floating on his back - he finds that out as soon as he does it. He's fine on his front, so long as he remembers to come up for air once in a while. Feels safer to face the water (or be face down in it) than to have your back turned in it.

At least this way he's already under the water, so there aren't any surprises.