Fitness and Health, Tuesday, Period 4

[doubleohblonde]

Bond had his class meet him in the Danger Shop today, where a vast maze of a warehouse waited for them.

"I must apologise for my absence last week," Bond said after greeting them. "It was unavoidable." Which was all he was going to say on the matter.

"Now for your final, you'll be engaging in a test of fitness, reflexes, and thinking on your feet. May the best student win."

Paintball. Your final was paintball.

Weapon Safety, Wednesday

[likethegun]

"Hey guys," Sam said, standing in front of a long table filled with pretty much every weapon the students had gotten a chance to try over the course of the semester - swords, bats, guns, bows, knives, and all the goodies in between. "Today's our last class, but since this isn't the type of course to lend itself to a final, I figured our 'final' would be one last look at whatever kind of weapons you guys wanted to practice with the most. Pick something you didn't get to look at very much, or what you consider the weapon you're least skilled with, and work with that today. Oh, and have a good summer, if I don't see you."

Jack of All Trades, Wednesday, Per 1

[geniuswithasmartphone]

The Danger Shop was programmed into a huge warehouse today, stuffed full with computers, fabric, cars, and--babies? "Hey, y'all, an' welcome to your final," Hardison said. "The whole point of this class was to teach y'all a few skills to take away with you, an' so all you haveta do is prove that you learned one thing in here. Once you do that, you can either head out or enjoy the pizza party I got goin' on in the other room." The other room was programmed into the Danger Shop. The pizza was real and if anyone complained about pizza at 8am, well, that was on them. "So, real quick an' easy. Pick a skill, demonstrate you know how to do it, an' you're good--though it ain't gonna count if I'm pretty sure you came into the class knowin' how to do it already. Pick somethin' you actually learned, a'ight?"

Oh the Humanity!: Friendship is International Adventure, Thursday, period 1

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie was looking uncharacteristically gloomy as the students gathered outside Portalocity, today. She scuffed her hoof against the street and sighed dramatically. "Today's our last class," she said, and sniffed.

Eliot awkwardly reached over to pat her on the head. "Pinkie wanted to throw a good-bye party," he said. "But I had a different idea. See, we've been to a lot of different regions of the Earth in this class, but there's one important one that we've left off so far: the Middle East."

"It turns out this is the area where a lot of the culture we have here in Fandom and in the country Fandom lives in got its very very earliest start!"

Eliot nodded. "The Arabian peninsula and the surrounding countries were the seat of power for more than a few of the ancient civilizations that western culture is based on. It's the birthplace of algebra and our modern mathematical systems, and the entire reason why English has a concept of 'zero'. It's also where three of the world's largest religions originated, which is one of the reasons why it's considered one of the most dangerous areas of the world for Americans to visit. Many of the countries in the region are involved in all out wars right now, and hundreds of thousands of civilians have been fleeing violence and religious persecution. It's part of the reason we didn't visit the area earlier in the year. It's taken a lot of research for me to find a location I thought would be safe enough for us to visit."

"Over the course of the class, we've gone to see cities and ancient sites and natural wonders! So today we thought we'd give you an option: ancient or modern! I wanted to throw in a natural wonder but Eliot said ix-nay on the ee-options-thray. Since there's only two of us teachers."

"You can either join Pinkie Pie in one portal and go visit the ancient city of Petra, Jordan," Eliot said, and sighed through his nose when Pinkie whipped out a fedora and bullwhip. "Or you can come along with me to the modern coastal city of Aqaba, Jordan. So, you know, desert or beach. It's up to you."

"Either way, it sounds like super duper loads of fun to me!" Pinkie cheered, and flung her hat into the air before leading the way to one of the two portals that opened up behind them. "Adventure awaits!"