Shop Class; Thursday, Second Period [02/11].

[special_rabbit]

"Morning, everyone," Amaya greeted the class with the usual nod, but lacking the particular excitement that usually accompanied setting out on a new project for the day. It wasn't she didn't enjoy this week's project; she actually did, otherwise she wouldn't keep doing it, but she definitely wasn't entirely fond of the reason why she always put it around this time of year...

"Now, I'm sure some of you know, this weekend is a sort of holiday." She was absolutely rolling her eyes over it, too. "I mean, there seems to be a holiday for just about everything around here. But this one in particular is a bit...erm....mushy," now her look went a bit withering, " and tends to involve a tradition of getting people flowers. And flowers are lovely, I'm a bit of a horticulturalist myself, but one things flowers aren't is permanent...unless maybe they're made of metal."

And that, my friends, was enough to clear away most of Amaya's disdain and put a grin right back on her face.

"So that's what we'll be doing today," she continued, holding up one of her own finished products and passing it around for them to see and start getting an idea of how they'd be making them. "Metal roses. These guys may look a little complex, but that's deceptive, they're actually pretty easy, so don't worry. I'm show you how."

Amaya lead them through the steps, from tracing out the three base layers on a sheet of metal and cutting them out, cleaning them up with some sanding and hammering, drilling the holes and welding the stems, and then heating and shaping the petals into its final form.

"I've got printed instructions to refer to if you need them," she said once she'd finished up the demonstration, "and feel free to ask questions if you've got them. Go ahead and get your supplies and your safety gears and let's get to work."

Advanced Team Building, Thursday, February 11, 2021

[heroic_jawline]

Today Steve and Tony were surrounded by logs and rope when the Team Building class showed up. Were you worried?

You should be!

"Welcome back!" Tony said. "Today we're going to see how you do at building a raft."

As a team?

"As a team!" Steve added, beaming. "I did this all the time with my team of commandos back in the war."

"Now, we have some basic instructions to help if you get stuck," Tony added. "But you can try it without if you want."

"The worst that can happen is the raft falling apart and you getting wet," Steve said. "And then we can practice hypothermia mitigation!"

Don't sound so cheerful about that, Steve.

"It'll be fine," Tony assured them.

Guiding the Powerful Yet Incompetent, Thursday, Third Period

[tellmehowstuffworks]

"The king," Yennefer said, "has decided to host a tourney in celebration of the harvest. Also he might be planning to participate to provide himself with some successes for those tapestries he's so set on, but that's not your problem. Your problem is the celebratory feast which will be served in honor of the victors at the end of the tourney. It has just come to your attention that he has ordered served, rather than a multi-course meal of fine dishes, the sort of stew one might find in your average village tavern. Probably it has rat in. He thinks this will be rather droll. You think a large number of nobles and knights who are already armed are going to be offended. What do you do?"