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Communication (Thursday, P5)

When the students arrived in the classroom they'd find it set up like a dining room with one long table and a variety of food set out. Bouncing slightly on the balls of his feet behind the chair at the head of the table, Bob gestured for everyone to take a seat, then held a finger up to his lips in an exaggerated 'Shhh!' motion.

Welcome to the quietest dinner party ever.

Who knows the sign language for 'pass the gravy, please?'

[[Sorry for the late. Anthropology is kicking my academic butt these days.]]

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And take a seat.

Points off for every word Bob hears.

He's grumbling - silently - over all these dishes he has to do.

World ending, all that. I have some articles on ethics in ethnography to critique.

Hoshi Sato

Hoshi found the silence rather familiar. This was just like eating dinner at home with her parents.

Carmela Rodriguez

Anemone

In contrast to Hoshi, Carmela isn't very used to silent dinners, growing up with two siblings, one of whom was a younger brother. Still. She is giving it her best effort.

Carmela taps Hoshi on the shoulder before smiling and pointing to a salad within the other girl's reach. Hopefully she'd get the message.

Hoshi pointed to the salad bowl and looked at Carmela with a questioning look, not sure if she understood her correctly.

Jeff Murdock

Jeff looked like something that was about to explode.

This was only mildly worse than usual.

Carmela picks up a fork and mimes an eating motion, before raising an eyebrow and pointing to herself.

Hoshi giggled (silently, of course) and passed the salad to Carmela.

Jack Burton

Jack's ready to eat a bit of everything on the table. He starts with those closest to himself, and branches out to whoever he can catch eye contact with. Hey. Hey, you, with the stuffing? Can...you pass that over?

Carmela grins and gives Hoshi a thumbs-up after scooping some on to her plate.

Hoshi was trying to interpret Jack's gestures. Was he talking to her? She pointed at herself and waited for his response.

Jack nodded to her, and gestured to the plate of stuffing next to her with an eyebrow quirk in a 'I would not mind having some stuffing if it would not be a bother' way.

And gestured to the plates around him with his other eyebrow quirked.

Hoshi was fine with what she had, but she passed him the stuffing, making a point of holding the plate by the edges. She hoped Jack realized from her actions that it was hot.

Anemone was used to eating in silence, but that was because she had usually eaten alone before this year. Dining with other people was still odd.

She tried to catch the nervous-looking boy's attention. Hey! Can she one of those apples, please?

Jack grabbed the plate from her and his eyes widened at the unexpected heat. He quickly put it down near him, clenching his fingers from the heat before grabbing his water glass. He gave her an odd look like "Oops" or "Do you think the Cincinnati Water Buffalo PeeWee Hockey League will take the cup this year?" or something. He did nod thanks to her.

Jeff shot up like a nervous light, staring Anemone straight in the face and tensing up so badly he couldn't even move a muscle.

He made some unidentifiable noises, but remained otherwise silent.

Summer Roberts

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Communication (Thursday, P5)

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