fandomhigh | French 101, Period 5 Class 1 [1-10]

Jean-Paul sat behind his desk, watching as the students filed in and wearing a slightly evil smirk on his face. Once they were all seated, he began speaking.

In French.

"Bonjour, et accueille à français 101. Je suis Professeur Beaubier." Then he switched back to English. "You probably could get the gist of that, I suspect. Now. I am Quebecois, from Montreal. This means that while I am from Canada, French is my native language, though I speak a somewhat different dialect than you might hear on the streets of Paris. The swears are different, for one thing. I know it is not usually the done thing in an academic class, but you will be learning those later, as I find them unendingly useful. Your syllabus will be ready next week; this week I have been dealing with a...situation." Also known as a sudden caramel addiction, but try getting him to admit that under torture. "This week, we are going to participate in an activity I am sure you are all quite thoroughly sick of: introductions. Name, where you are from, why you want to study French, and any experience with the language you might already have. We will start with you," he said, pointing to a student at random.

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Dawn Summers

Brooke Davis

Yasutora Sado

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Pass notes, take notes, wonder why Jean-Paul talks so fast...

Dawn perked up at the mention of swearing. Nice to know she'd picked useful classes.

John carefully wadded up a bit of paper and flicked it at Dawn.

She fumbled with the paper and watched it land at her feet, then spent the next minute or so reaching for it with her toes, until she brought it close enough that she could pick it up.

Then she threw it back, when she hoped the new professor wasn't looking.

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Swearing. Cool.

Chad was wondering how many people were thinking that the swearing part was cool.

Yes. He was among their ranks.

Jim was wondering when the swearing lesson was going to be.

Seriously. That would be useful.

Tamaki wasn't as interested in the swearing as he was in looking out the window, thinking about his Mother. She was still in France somewhere, and he hadn't seen her for a very long time.

It's a traditional first-class activity, after all.

"I'm Dawn Summers; I'm from Sunnydale, California circa 2004 or so; and I want to study French because a lot of old church records and prophecies are either written in or translateable to French, and because I have some friends who either did live there or live there now. Um, I can speak a little bit, but I'm better at reading and writing."

Brooke did a good amount of staring at pretty much everything Dawn said. What was with this place?

Dawn stared back at Brooke. "What?"

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"I'm Brooke Davis, from Tree Hill, North Carolina, and I'm really only here because it seemed like a normal class with all the others there were to choose from," she confessed. "But I did get the gist of what you said in French!"

And then she added, just because, "And everything sounds hotter in French. Proven fact."

John was still cringing over the last time they'd talked about French, causing him to facepalm at the last thing she said.

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"I'm Johnny Storm and I'm from New York City. I think learning French would be cool. Plus I think it would impress the girlfriend."

"I'm John Sheppard, from all over the place, actually; and I signed up for this class because I don't speak French and I figured a foreign language could only be useful."

"Yasutora Sado," he started. "Uh, people call me Chad. I'm from Mexico. And Japan. I'm interested in learning French because being..." There was a pause to think, "Quadralingual? Will be very helpful in my career. I don't really know any of it right now, though."

"My name is Tamaki Suou. I came from Japan, but my lineage is both Japanese and French. Naturally," he smiled, "I would like to be able to speak the language of my heritage."

He conveniently neglected to mention that he'd lived in France for a time and already knew some of the language. Maybe applying for this class was cheating a little bit, but he was actually still pretty interested in it. After all, learning the language in the actual country and finding out how it was taught in high school seemed an interesting comparison to make. He looked forward to being in French 101!

"My name's Jim Halpert and I'm from a town near Philadelphia," Jim said. "I'm looking to learn French because I think mocking people in French would be fun. Also, it seemed like a good 'normal' class."

Jean-Paul was here both before and after class, in case any students wished to speak to him.

Up so early because I'm about to have to clear out of the library to get some food and I don't know if I'll be coming back tonight. My availability is likely to be near-nonexistant. Sorry, y'all!

French provided by freetranslation.com, because I do not actually speak the language.

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