fandomhigh | Underwater Basketweaving as a Metaphor for Organising Your Life -- Class 7, Period 2 [Tuesday]

“Good morning class,” Juli said mildly, as she and Lulu called the class to order. “Today’s shall be a busy one, I’m afraid.”

They were at the beach, and though Juli had not come in her swimsuit, the children had still been ordered to, and Lulu was wearing hers. There were basket-making rushes, reeds, and frames laid out neatly on tables just off to one side. She spared them a glance before beginning to talk again.

“Today you will each be attempting, under our supervision," Lulu said, "to, yes, weave a basket underwater. You will need all of the skills that have been covered so far in this workshop. Yes, this exercise is rated rather more on your willingness to try, and determination in attempting to combine all of the skills together, than how well you actually manage to weave a basket underwater, but we'd like you to try anyway.”

Juli smiled. “After your attempts you are all required to answer a question. Multi-tasking is an incredibly vital skill in the world that you live in today—each and everyone of you have spent the last weeks learning various skills and how to use them at the same time. How, then, would you say you can apply the act of combining skills and doing more than one thing at once outside of this class, and further on into your life?”

“First though, basket weaving.”

As Juli and Lulu's students finished up their class discussion, Lulu smiled at them. "And now," she said, "for any of you who don't have to run off to another workshop, we invite you to stay around and join us for... a bit of a beach party."

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up!]

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Turtle usually didn't mind this part of having a boyfriend turning into something. It was just what her boyfriend had turned into that made it hard as she ducked in to talk to one of the basketweaving teachers about Jeff's current state.

"Um, hello."

"Miss Wexler," Juli greeted her easily. "How can I help you?"

"Jeff won't be here today, Miss Mizrahi," Turtle answered, keeping it nice and simple and to the point. "He's currently a rock."

Juli blinked.

"A rock?" She had heard of the other kid that had been turned into a rock before, but really... "Are rocks the new animal then?"

Turtle shifted a little uncomfortably. "Well, I wouldn't think so, especially considering that rocks aren't animals, Miss Mizrahi. I think...I think it just has a lot more to do with the individual involved that determines what sort of thing they turn into..."

She closed her eyes and prayed that she didn't inquire as to what about Jeff's nature would lead to that particular transformation.

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She waved one hand dismissively. "Nothing like that," Juli said. "Merely as a trend, not as an animal in and of itself. I'll make note of his absence, and thank you for telling me."

Juli did not particularly want to know how a rock equated to Jeff.

Turtle breathed a sigh of relief, and the fact that Miss Mizrahi didn't ask caused her to smile brightly as she said, "Oh, you're welcome! It's only fair; he did the same for my classes last week when I was a turtle."

That just got a small shake of her head, and a softly amused laugh. "At the very least, it is good that the both of you are not changed at the same time."

Turtle sighed a little. "I guess; this way we can take care of each other, but it's still lame that, just as soon as I stop being a turtle, he turns into a rock."

Underwater Basketweaving as a Metaphor for Organising Your Life -- Class 7, Period 2 [Tuesday]

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