Keeping Your Wits About You... [Monday 2nd Period 10-11] Class # 1

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And so another school year began.

Even though he didn't have the first class of the day, Wilson still had a nice spread of coffee, tea and sodas on a table next to a plate of White Chocolate Key Lime Bars for the students as they came in to the first class. Aziraphale had been a dear and helped Wilson bring everything up from the house and set up in the class room before the angel had headed off for his own office hours.

The sign in sheet sat next to the sugary treats.

Leaning against the front of his desk, Wilson sipped on a cup of coffee as he watched the students make their way into the room and find their seats. Once he had counted off the right number of noses, he set the coffee aside and pushed away from the desk, turning up the cuffs of a shirt that seemed too long for him no reason for that, really.



"Good morning," Wilson greeted his class with a smile. "All right, this is Keeping your wits about you and I am your professor for this term, Dr. James Wilson. Many of you I have already met, some of you I have yet to have the pleasure, so today we're going to do some introductions."

Walking behind the desk, he pulled a stack of papers out of his briefcase and began to walk them around to the class.

"This is your syllabus for the semester. Please note that I will hold office hours on Tuesdays from 9:30am until 12:00 noon but I am always available to schedule a meeting if you need to talk to me outside either class or Tuesdays."

Syllabus passed out, Wilson walked back to the desk and hopped up on the top.

"Okay, I'm going to tell you a little bit about myself and some of my experiences recently since I came to Fandom and why I'm teaching this class. Afterwards, I'm going to break you into 3 groups and I want you to introduce yourselves to each other while I talk with you, one on one. Our one on one conversations will be just between you and I as I need to get an idea of any and all innate powers of abilities you possess so that the exercises we do in class are properly tailored to each of you."

Smiling, he reached for his coffee.

"Painless, I promise."

Lecture

Taking a sip of coffee, he leaned back and studied each of the students before speaking again.

"I am a normal, garden varity mortal male from the 21st century Earth. I don't come from the past or the future, I am a medical doctor, my specialty is oncology and I'm about 40 years old."

Holding his hands up, he gave a little shrug.

"Pretty run of the mill. However, I have managed to survive here in Fandom with all it's unique quirks, as well as visit Hell, the Underworld and a creepy little village in Maine with my skin intact. Let me explain."

Keeping his coffee close, Wilson began to tell of some of his more adventursome times in Fandom, hitting such highlights as vampire attacks, trolls, creepy towns in Maine, giant tongues in the Underworld, dying to save Lucifer and most recently dealing with the Lilim and banishing voiceless gods.

He also threw in what he felt was his most frightening experience Parents Weekend!.

"So, those are some of the highlights but I like to think that they show, you don't need to be overwhelmingly powerful or outrageously armed to the teeth in order to survive and thrive in any situation, so long as you keep your wits about you, use your head and keep your mind open to any and all possibilities."

Finishing off his coffee, Wilson stood up and headed for the chalk board.

"That, is what this class aims to help you learn through a combination of lecture and practical application. For the rest of today, as I said, we'll be doing a bit of a meet and greet. I have you split into groups to talk while you wait for me to call you each out individually so we can chat privately."

Class Assignment:

Break into the follow groups, sit and meet and greet. I will call you each over for 5 minutes or so to talk with me privately

First Session:

Group A
Savannah Levine
Wyatt Halliwell
Beauty Huston
Hoshi Sato

Group B
Alphonse Elric
Isabel Evans
Chris Halliwell
Anne Shirley

Group C
Johnny Storm
Lana Lang
Summer Roberts

Homework: Try to be aware of your surroundings. Take a look at every day objects and come up with at least 3 different uses for 2 of them.

[ooc: Going up early due to small person interuptus in the morning. Please wait for The OCDs are up and class is ready to play!]

Comments

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

This was the part Beauty was nervous about. Hopefully there'd be someone chatty in her group, so she wouldn't have to talk much.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

And lo, there was a Savannah in her group. "Hello."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

"Hi, Savannah," Wyatt said. He discretely checked out the new girl. Mmm, hello there! "I'm Wyatt," he said to Beauty. "You must be new."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi was feeling kind of shy. She was perfectly content to just listen to the others at first.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

Beauty smiled a little shyly at the others in her group. "Hello. I'm Beauty. It's nice to meet you all."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

"You really live up to your name," Wyatt said shamelessly.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi still hadn't spoken up yet, but she had to roll her eyes at at line.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

That's okay, Beauty was staring at Wyatt with a boggled expression. Because she was almost sure he'd flirted with her.

"It's ironic," she replied. "It's a nickname, because I didn't like my given name when I was child."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt hadn't noticed Hoshi's eye-rolling, not that it would deter him anyway. "What's your given name?" he asked. "If you don't mind sharing it."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

With a glance at the other girls in the group -- she hoped they didn't think she was being too chatty -- she shrugged one shoulder at Wyatt. "It's Honour. My mother was a little too literal-minded when it came to naming her children."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah smiled. "I think Honour is a very pretty name."

She was not surprised that Wyatt was flirting.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi had no problem with anyone else being chatty. It gave her an opportunity to listen to their voices and study their speech patterns.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"I'm Savannah," she said extending her hand first to Honour and then to Hoshi.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Looks like she finally had to speak up. "I'm Hoshi," she said.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you." Savannah had a friendly smile on her face. She liked meeting new people.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

Beauty gave Savannah a little smile at the compliment. "I don't mind it, but it was a little hard to understand when I was small, and I thought my sisters got the better names."

She extended that smile to Hoshi as well. "Hello, Hoshi."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

"Unusual names are nice," Wyatt said. "There are far too many Johns and Johnnys around here, for instance. You never know who someone is talking about."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

Beauty kind of liked the idea that people might think her name was interesting, though. "Your names are all sort of unusual, where I come from," she mused. "Especially Hoshi, but of course that makes sense because there aren't any people from the Orient in Blue Hill."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

"Blue Hill, where's that?" Wyatt asked. "And where are you from, Hoshi? I'm from California, about 13 years in the future."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

"It's in the countryside, in England," Beauty explained. Because yeah, she was pretty sure this wasn't England.

"In...in the past," she added, remembering what Naomi had told her about the year. "About two hundred and fifty years ago, or thereabouts."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

"Wow, that's cool," Wyatt said. "I want to go to England some day. I'm a big fan of English history and legends."

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

Beauty smiled at Wyatt's reaction. "I suppose for someone from a time in the future, it might be interesting. What sorts of stories do you like? Have you read any Spenser? Or any of the Greeks?"

Yes, he might have stumbled across a topic Beauty tended to get excited about.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi was just happy that she wasn't the only one who got yanked out of her time period.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[blessed_twice]

"I've read The Faerie Queene," Wyatt said. "I like reading about the Tudor dynasty and the Plantagenet era, but my favorite is stuff about Arthurian legends." Yes, Wyatt could geek out when he wanted to.

Re: Class Activity - Group A

[comelyhonour.livejournal.com]

"The Faerie Queen is one of my favorites!" Beauty exclaimed, her eyes lighting up. "But I've only been able to read the first three books -- Holiness, Temperance, and Chastity. I could never find copies of the others. And Le Morte d'Arthur is my absolute favorite book. I'm sure I've read every one of the tales a hundred times."