How to Make Friends & Influence People | 4th Period | Monday

[merciful_parable]

Carter bustled around the room, doing a fair impression of someone trying not to wring their hands (he was totally trying not to wring his hands) as he straightened the cushions that he and Fjord had settled on for the first class, rather than the usual desks and chairs, and tripled checked that his cookies were all neatly set out and that there was paper plates and napkins enough for everyone.

At least the sugar cookies with edible glitter on them, as per Summer’s suggestion, had turned out quite nicely. He was indebted to Summer, really....

He paused as he realized that, somewhere in all his quiet fussing, the class had filled up. And… And Fjord wasn’t here.

Oh. Well. That meant…

Carter straightened, looking a bit flustered as he did so. “Hello, everyone,” he said, feeling a bit overwhelmed at the very idea of teaching. “I am Pastor Carter, one of your teachers for, er, ‘How to Make Friends and Influence People’.”

Goddess, but that sounded terrible. It really did.

( More under the cut! )

Carter glanced at Fjord for a moment, then smiled at the class, as he said, "and, please, feel free to converse with your fellow students as the introductions go on. After all, you should all get to know one another during the course of this class."

Badass Women You Should Know- Monday- 2nd period

[gobrookeyourself]

"Good morning, everybody," Brooke greeted the students once class had started. "My name's Brooke Davis, and this is Badass Women You Should Know. History is filled with women who did awesome things or created some of the stuff that makes up the way life is today, and we don't hear enough about them. We'll be focusing on history from around the world here, by the way. Like Earth, current day 2018. I'm kind of new to teaching and I'm going to be learning as I go with this, I don't know if I can find out about a ruler from another world on Wikipedia. But if there's someone from your neck of the woods who should be covered, talk to me and maybe we can work out an extra credit thing.

"So!" she went on. "We're starting easy today, with introductions before you're sick of them. I want your name and where you're from, and someone who inspires you, even if it's like your mom. And if you have a woman that you definitely want to see covered in this class, name her. Let's start with you."

The Circle of Life, Monday Third Period

[stickitupmyjinx]

"Hey, everyone!" Vanessa said with a cheery wave. "I can't believe you signed up for our class!" Especially after Wade wrote the description. "You may, uh, be wondering what this class even is." That was fair.

"My description was a masterpiece," Wade hissed at the class. "Well, it was better written than whatever they're calling the DC movie universe these days."

"So, here's what's going on," Vanessa said. "I am a sex worker--well, former. Well, mostly. And Wade is a mercenary! So we decided we'd play to our strengths and teach you about safe sex and how to kill people. Not...at the same time...I can't even say 'unless that's what you're into' because snuff is super illegal, folks."

"None of them are Hollywood executives, so I think we're safe on that." Thanks, Wade. "And, just in case this was what you signed up for..."

He took a moment to fiddle with his phone, cursing under his breath before yanking a glove off with his teeth to use the touch screen and play a song for them.

And now the ones who weren't familiar with Disney would know what they would have stuck in their head all semester! Vanessa waited until the song was over and said, "I'm Vanessa, by the way, I just realized I didn't tell you that. And now you should introduce yourselves to us. It's traditional."

"Maybe include which side of the beautiful Elton John song you're interested in learning about," Wade added.

"And, I don't know, something about yourself. We'll start with you," Vanessa said, pointing to a student at random.

Shop Class; Monday, First Period [08/27].

[special_rabbit]

Was Amaya just a little more than pleased that there was a whole room in the school dedicated to machines and making stuff? You bet she was! If she'd have ever imagined she'd actually want to teach things, she might have been a little upset about not utilizing it earlier, but now felt like just the right time to start in on it, and she was eager to welcome her new batch of students for the new class.

"'Morning, everyone!" she said, nodding when it was about that time and everyone seemed there. "And welcome to Shop Class! Here, we're going to be making stuff, usually wood or metal stuff, and that's usually going to involve some heavy-duty and dangerous machines, so one thing I want to make crystal clear is that safety is always going to come first. Now, whoever's in charge of making these schedules thought it was a good idea to have sleepy teenagers working on heavy machines first thing in the morning on a Monday, so you better believe, I'm always gonna have a thing of coffee and a thing of tea available for you if you need it. Last thing we want is anyone losing fingers..."

In that slight pause there, she grinned faintly. "But if anyone does, well, then we got ourselves a substitute finger making project on our hands."

No, Amaya. No puns about mutilating students, please.

"Anyway, this here's the first class on the first week of a new semester, so we're not going to get into too much today, anyway. Gonna make you work up to the good stuff. Today, as some of you can guess, we'll be doing introductions, but we're gonna be doing 'em shop class style, with these," she gestured to the table beside here, where boxes of long metal sticks sat around a collection of hammers and a variety of small metal discs and squares. "Metal stamps! Now, I'm a blacksmith by trade, when I'm not teaching, and these are very common with any sort of metal work as a way to brand our pieces so people know when they're getting a bonafide Blackstone piece. It's also popular with jewelry, it's used to mark metal tags, and all sorts of other stuff. Today, we're going to be using them to introduce ourselves.

"Pick out a base and take a second to think about what you might want to stamp onto your tag. It can be your name, a nickname, something important to you, whatever you think might be a good way to ease into an introduction, then pick out the stamps you'll need. Grab a stamping block," and Amaya did just that, holding it up to show the class before she demonstrated as she talked, "tape your piece down on your tag to help you keep it all aligned. Now, this next part's important: start in the middle and work outward, so you'll have to do a little planning, but that'll help it be nice and centered and even. Unless you want it otherwise, I suppose. Start with your middle letter, place the stamp straight and firm on the piece, and then give it three firm hits," smack, smack, smack!, "on the top. And there you go!" She held up the block and brougth it close so they could see the firmly stamped A, then returned to the table. "Then just go from there," and she went through the other letters, place the stamp, grab the hammer, smack, smack, smack! Until she finished up, peeled off the tape, and then sent the small disc with "AMAYA" neatly printed on it around.

"And there you have it, that's my name, Amaya. I'd have probably preferred to put BLACK STONE on there, BLACK on top, STONE on the bottom, but that might've wound up taking half the class! So I'll let you get to it! If you have any questions, go on and ask me, and about twenty minutes to the end of class, we'll stop and take a second to show off what you made by way of introducing yourselves. And if it you finish your first piece well before the time, feel free to make one or two more of your choice.

"Alright, then!" Amaya grinned, lifting up one hand and pounding her fist into it. "Let's get to it!"

Library, Monday

[intotheout]

Tip hadn't been able to think of anyone off the top of her head to request in her "Badass Women You Should Know" class, and it kind of bothered her. So she was spending her library shift this week doing research, trying to find the most obscure awesome women she could.

There were Mongol queens and Chinese pirate women and South American rebels. And that wasn't even getting to the entire army of female warriors in West Africa.

This was turning out to maybe be one of Tip's favorite library shifts ever.

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