The Art of Japanese Culture through Untranslatable Words; Monday, Fourth Period [01/25].

[sake_shinigami]

"Well, now, ducklings ♥," Shunsui greeted the class with a faint chuckle as they came in; the desks were not pushed aside like usual, though, and Shunsui was standing, "as you can see, we'll not be getting too comfortable today, as I have a portal scheduled for us in just a bit so that we can better explore today's word in real time, but, well, you see..."

He was in a good mood about it only because, while he'd woken up before the crack of dawn yet again this morning, despite the affect having moved on, he was absolutely able to sneak in a good long well deserved nap before class, which seemed to set things back to normal for him.

"I spent an awful lot of time in the woods this weekend, training, but also meditating, which brought to mind the word and concept for today ♥. And that concept is that of yugen:"

He turned with a flow of his robes that he had rather missed all weekend, a tilt back of his hat, and he wrote carefully on the board:

yugen
幽玄
an awareness of the universe that triggers feelings too deep and mysterious for words

"To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill, to wander the great depths of a huge forest with no intention to return, to stand on the shore as a boat disappears over the horizon to find distant lands, the flight of a bird lost among the clouds ♥. These are all examples of yugen, but what do they have in common? Yugen often means deep, mysterious, and profound. It is the vastness of the world around us that is too great to truly grasp beyond one's' emotional appreciation and wonder of it. It is something that cannot be fully expressed: poetry and art can only merely suggest the true nature of yugen, never completely capture it, it must be felt. It must be experienced ♥.

"The odds of experiencing true yugen in a classroom are very rare indeed, and so we will be traveling today to place where we may not only experience it, but, perhaps, maybe we may find at least a few words that will attempt to describe it ♥."

Creative Writing- Monday- 1st period

[gotyoucookie]

Nick had not yet accepted that this island wasn't normal, so he was having a real hard time processing spending a weekend as a Beast with a weird cat face.

There would be drinking later, yes. It might lead to incomprehensible voicemails.

"Today I'm going to give you a prompt," Nick announced to the class, and then he took a minute to write THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN on the board in big letters. If you thought he'd process quietly, no. He would not. "I have written some things that have not happened on slips of paper you will pull out of a hat. I want a five page story about it by next week's class. You can start on it today."

You could start repressing immediately, is what he meant.

Fuck Yeah Science - Monday - Period 2

[badassprodigy]

"So. Everyone have fun this weekend?"

Barry's expression was one of contained amusement. "Not going to lie. As soon as I realized that this bullshit was happening I locked the drawers and sent out drones to watch everyone make themselves look like idiots. Next time you're normal when this happens, swing by my warehouse. I'll have Oreos."

He waved his hand in the direction of a portal that was sitting in the classroom and gestured for everyone to follow.

When they stepped through the portal they would see that the had stepped onto a metal platform with an energy field dome above them.

And all around them were stars and apparently the planet Saturn.

"Yep. We're in fucking space. There are some human sized hamster balls over there that you can take out and run around in space. When the hour is over come back here and write down your observations."