Library - 7/24

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Coffee in hand, Isabel opened the library on time.

Accelerated Scouting: Week Three, Period 5

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Even though Dale had told everyone to wear a swimsuit and meet at the pool in the last workshop, he had handwavily sent out a reminder e-mail for everyone late last week.

As the students enter the pool area they not only see your standard swimming supplies but they would also see small inflatable canoes with plastic paddles, life jackets, water wings, some craft supplies and... a kiddie pool.

Dale is also wearing your standard lifeguard gear including red swimming trunks and a whistle

For the record: Dale Cooper looks nothing like David Hasslehoff.

"Today kids, we are going to be working on three merit badges. Swimming, canoeing, and underwater basket weaving; which is exactly like basket weaving just... underwater."

"And if you don't know how to swim... Well, that's what the kiddie pool is for and we'll work on your ability."

After lecturing everyone on water safety, canoe safety, basket weaving technique, he gave a brief blast of his whistle. "All right! I didn't have time to get everyone's merit badges for last week but you all were awarded with the Hiking and the Fish and Wildlife Management merit badges from last week's hike. *More Tweets* Okay! Everyone into the pool! No running!"

[OCD is up!]

Construction [Tuesday]

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With Xander off island, Fraser's taken over all the construction duties for this week. Fraser can tell the construction workers miss Xander's presence when they arrive Tuesday, waiting for a safety lecture and receive a long winded Inuit story instead.

There's safety equipment nearby and Fraser's available for anything that might be needed.

Lunch - Tuesday 7/24

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Guud murneeng stoodents! Heppy Tooesdey! It's nut reelly a huleedey. Boot zeere-a shuoold be-a.

Tudey's Menoo:

-Peezza

-Breedsteecks

-Seled

-Pooddeeng

How to Blow Things Up: Period 1, Week 3

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Today the class wasn't meeting in the Danger Shop.  Following the directions in the note handwavily delivered, the students would find themselves in a clearing with sandbag 'bunkers' at one end facing a large pile of stones and twisted metal.  On the other end, several rows of different types of grenades were laid out carefully.  Aly stood in the middle, trying not to be nervous over her students' first experience in class with live explosives.  She was mostly failing, but the nerves weren't showing through to her students as anything other than a bit of tenseness.

Once everyone was assembled, she spoke up.  "Morning, everybody.  As I hope you've noticed by now, we're not in the Danger Shop.  Which means that the grenades over there are live.  Today is so not the day to fool around or be in less than your absolute top form or you'll be lucky if detention is the least you get."

Confident she had everyone's attention, she nodded.  "This is going to be fun.  Those of you who haven't handled live rounds before, don't be nervous, just be very careful.  You'll be fine."  She gave a short and thorough lecture the development and uses of different types of grenades before going on to the proper procedures for arming and throwing the weapons.

"No explosive we try is going to be the best possible choice in every situation," she said, wrapping up.   "For grenades, the delay between pulling the pin and the explosion means you can throw it, but the enemy could throw it back at you or it could bounce off a wall and roll back towards one of your allies.  So what I want you to do today before trying them for yourself is discuss with a partner or two the tactical advantages of grenades.  Why use them and not a Molotov cocktail that can't come back at you?  Or a gun which has a longer range?  Or would you use them at all except as a last resort?"

"After that, come over and try them out for yourself."

Aly had positioned herself so only one person at a time could approach the bunker with its firing position.  No need to for more chaos to impinge on some of the students.

[OOC:  Whee, things go boom!  Aly's completely serious about the penalties for horsing around in this class.  If you want to get detention ping in the OOC thread, otherwise I'll give you a heads up if your character is skirting the line.  Please wait for OCD is up!]

Sanitary Living [period 5, Tuesday]

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"Hi!" Hannelore greeted everyone when they entered the Danger Shop again. "Okay, so sometimes we're face with the unpleasant fact that teeny-tiny places get dirty. Like, super-cramped, no fun for anyone kinds of places. I mean, not really mine because I don't have a lot of crap, but for you guys. And it gets all dusty and you find stuff that you haven't seen in years and -- "

She broke off with a shudder. "Sorry. You guys heard about the boogeyman when you were kids? I was more scared of dustbunnies. Um. Anyway. You guys get to clean under beds and couches and behind stuff today. And...yeah, I'll be over here, not watching unless you need me." She launched into a quick explanation of how to keep stuff organized as they found it, gesturing to large containers that she assured them that she had sterilized.

Not that anyone probably asked.

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[wait for OCD. Okay, the general idea is that you ping into one of the subthreads and clean with a partner -- and you can totally mod stuff under the bed and behind the fridge, etc, within reason -- and at some point in the thread, I'll ping in with something for you to interact with, whether it be bugs or a lintmonster or whatever crack falls out of my head at that moment.]