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Juli had, quite frankly, laughed herself nearly sick over the news of the weekend--news that she’d been glad enough not to be a part of--and it was with a quiet amusement that she came to teach today. “I trust you all had good weekends?” she commented mildly, and then let it go.

“We’ll start off with something easy enough,” she smiled slightly, “after all, where would be the fun in starting with the harder topics, before you’re all quite comfortable with each other?” Of course she, Juli, would’ve found it fun, but she was trying to be slightly more circumspect in her lines of questioning. Slightly. “Today’s topic is: Food. Any and all discussion relating to this topic is encouraged, but if you need a few questions to start you off with then, perhaps, consider these: What do you like the most? What don’t you like the most? What’s traditional in your area, and how does that differ from here? Do you cook? Do you like to cook? What’s the worse thing you’ve tried? The best?”

“Those are just a few of the questions you’re free to discuss, use them as starting points.” Juli took a deep breath, “and I will, of course, answer any of these questions myself should you wish it of me.” Fair was fair, and this was a rather basic thing. She didn’t mind answering these sorts of questions.

She gestured to a random student. “Now, start.”

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"I'd imagine that knowing how to cook puts you in the minority in the dorms," Juli said, "if my memory holds true of school life, that is."

"There's a couple other students who can cook, but not a lot," said Hoshi. "I don't mind. It makes it easier to meet new people if you cook a lot of food."

"I'd imagine so," she said, with a smile, "and it predisposes them to look upon you favourably. Which is always a good way to start a meeting."

"Plus when you get dropped in the middle of a world that uses money and you have none, it made it easier to survive," added Hoshi.

"No money at all?"

"My guardian left me an envelope with about $200 in cash to get me started, but he neglected to tell me that he was dropping me off in the past," explained Hoshi. "In my world, they stopped using currency years ago as the society evolved. I had to get a lesson from Turtle in how to use currency and why I needed a job to get more currency."

"There's no mention of it at all in your history books?" she asked curiously. "I'd imagine something like that would be of note at least. Did it take you long to get the hang of it?"

"Oh, I knew that they used it," said Hoshi. "I just had no practical experience in dealing with it or handling it."

"Was it an easy adjustment to make?"

"Not really," said Hoshi. "It didn't help that I've always been home-schooled. I'm claustrophobic and I've never seen this many people in one place before. By the end of the first week, I was on the verge of having a panic attack in class."

Juli tried to imagine that. "No, I imagine that would make things more difficult."

"It was a pretty rough adjustment, but I survived," said Hoshi, smiling. "There were a lot of very helpful people, even a guy who lit himself on fire on the roof to distract me from a panic attack."

"I'm assuming," she said wryly, "that he did not hurt himself in the event of helping you?"

"Oh, he didn't," Hoshi reassured her. "Apparently he's got these powers that let him do that."

"Then it was very kind of him to do that for you," Juli said, "rather than both very kind and incredibly foolish."

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