Shop Class; Thursday, Second Period [01/28]..

[special_rabbit]

Since the class the semester was such a small one, Amaya figured it would be an excellent opportunity to do a good, solid lesson on blacksmithing. So her students would be getting a message that they'd be meeting at the shop that morning, and she sure hoped they were ready to learn, because, hoo body, when Amaya got going on blacksmithing, it was a doozy.

"'Morning, everyone," Amaya said, "Glad you found the place. For those of you who haven't been here yet, this here's my shop, where I do most of my work and spend most of my time, and today, I'm going to show you exactly how it all works, especially since we've got ourselves two anvil and three students, so it works out nicely. We can watch and learn from each other as we go along, and maybe work some blacksmithing into some future projects along the line. Now, let's get to it, shall we?

( Amaya Blackstone talks about Blacksmithing, aka Please to Enjoy this Novel about Blacksmithing. )

She then held out the bit of metal with the fanned-out end for them to see and set down the hammer, grinning a little at them. "There's many, many more techniques ahead to learn, but those are the basic ones that'll give you a good start. And I know that was a lot of talking, and, if any of you are like me, talking's not nearly as good for learning as actually doing is. So now it's your turn. I've got extra rods in the forge right now, so we'll take turns, and I want you each to spend a little time striking the rod and trying to get one of the techniques we discussed: give a try at drawing, tapering, bending, upsetting, or spreading. Your choice. And then we'll see how you did. Who'd like to go first?"

Guiding the Powerful Yet Incompetent, Thursday, Third Period

[tellmehowstuffworks]

The class would once again find themselves in the throne room with a hologram of a man who might be beginning to give them a facial twitch. "Good news and bad news," Yennefer told her students. "You successfully conned the king into redecorating with things he already owns but had in storage. However, in the process you inadvertently volunteered yourself to oversee the inventory of available materiel, and while you were away doing that His Majesty had some time to think, and he's decided that no, he does want new tapestries. Tapestries depicting him involved in heroic deeds.

"Said heroic deeds turning out to be rather thin on the ground, he's concluded that he'll just have to go out and do some before commissioning the tapestries commemorating them. He has a series of ideas. He could go hunt some monster that would normally be left to a witcher who has a clue what the hell he's doing. He could find some elves to persecute. Or he could start a war with the neighboring kingdom. There's the ticket! Conquer new lands for your kingdom, spread its mercy and benevolence, blah blah blah, cost a lot of money, get a lot of people killed. The usual. You know how a war works, or at least I hope you do.

"Your assignment? Talk him down. At the very least, talk him out of the war."

Advanced Team Building, Thursday, January 28, 2021

[heroic_jawline]

It was sunny today, which almost made up for it being freezing! Steve and Tony were wrapped up in coats, scarves, and stupid hats because it's a fact that the colder it is, the less you care about how you look.

"Today we'll work on some basic first aid," Steve said.

"Starting with CPR," Tony added, clutching his coffee like it could keep him warm. It couldn't, but a man could dream.

Steve knelt down next to the super creepy CPR dummy and gave an extremely comprehensive explanation--the Avengers worked hard on this stuff--and then said, "and now we'll show how to split up a sprained arm."

Tony nodded eagerly, gesturing to the supplies your average person might have before explaining that process for the students. "You can do either exercise or both, though we suggest working as a team for it."

Intro to Performing Arts | Friday, 2nd Period

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Hey everyone!" Annie waved with a hand that was clutching a brightly-colored beanbag, while clutching two more in her opposite hand. "I know I promised more singing stuff this week but - " She grimaced. "I don't know about you guys, but...I kind of need a little, um, space from all things singing after last weekend. So, apologies, but we're skipping around a little in the syllabus."

She neatly tossed one of the beanbags up, following it with the other two until she was juggling all three pretty easily. "Juggling! Not everyone is like, a singer, or a dancer, or an actor - but pretty much anyone can learn to juggle as long as you've got a little patience."

And even if you didn't, you had a whole hour of class to get through before she was going to let you all leave, so you might as well learn to juggle.

Annie caught her beanbags with a smile, then launched into an a brief explanation of how to juggle three things. "If you're feeling ambitious," she added, "there's plenty of beanbags. Oh - and please try not to knock over my plant."

She indicated a very nice spider plant on the corner of her desk. It was a gift from a student, you see.