Underwater Basket Weaving and Other Aquatic Arts!; Monday, Fourth Period [05/17].

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Since the weather appeared to be cooperating, the class would be meeting once again at the beach, and when they did, they would find their instructor as eager and excited as ever, warming up with some squats and arm stretches and encouraging exclamations. And once everyone was there and ready to go, he did one final stretch up high over his head, rolled his neck a little, and laughed before opening his arms to the class in greeting.

"Hello!" he said. "And welcome back! Are you all ready for another thrilling day of learning aquatic arts? I know I am! And since this particular aquatic art will require a lot of physical activity, let's all take a moment to stretch and warm up so that our bodies are limber and ready to go! Because today, we are tackling that most important Aquatic Art, the one for which mostly all other Aquatic Arts stem from, and that, of course, is swimming!

"Now," he continued, after waving a hand to encourage them all to keep stretching while he talked, something that he, himself, was also going to do, "there's a good chance that we all possess a very diverse range of swimming skills! Some of you, such as myself, may have been swimming since you were practically a tadpole, freshly hatched into a world of water and wonder! Some of you may have learned a little later, but due to your exposure to watery depths, may have a wide range of experience and skills. Some of you may not know how to swim barely at all! And that is fine, because we're going to go over many different techniques, we shall help each other, those who already know the basics will receive an excellent refresher, and by the end of the class, hopefully we'll all be confident enough in our swimming abilities to puruse a...bit of a challenge!"

His grin was particularly excited and shiny over that.

And he gave them a little more time to stretch and get warmed up before calling out, "Alright, my intrepid aquatic artistes! Everybody in the water! Let's get swimming!"

Pirating!, Monday, period 1

[betterthanaplan]

A message had gone out handwavily to meet at the port this week. When they got there they’d find their teachers standing in front of an old fashioned tall ship, its sails furled, rigging stretched all the way up the masts.

“Welcome back,” Duke said. “Or just . . . welcome in general.” Since two of their students were out of town last week.

"Welcome to Pirating, lads," said an amused Edward, clearly in his element. "This beauty of a brig's the Jackdaw, my ship, stolen right from amidst a Spanish treasure fleet."

He gave a dramatic wave with his arm.

"She's a nation to the worthy free. And today, you lot get to climb 'round her like fools."

Duke had to bite back the urge to add “allegedly” a Nader his breath at the mention of the ship being stolen.

Well. The statute of limitations should be long over on it, anyway.

“Basically you’re going to do a little obstacle course.” He pointed out the path along the boat. “Up to the forecastle, scale the rigging, swing over to the center mast, grab a flag from the crow’s nest, then head back down to the poop deck any way you want to. First to hand their flag off to one of us wins.” He grinned. “Cheating is encouraged.”

Anger Management- Monday- 2nd period

[gotyoucookie]

There had been a whole thing where Nick had had to go for help from the moose in programming the Sanger Shop. Lord knows Nick was never going to do it himself, the man still had a flip phone.

It was an experience.

But today the classroom looked like a carnival. Specifically, the area right in front of the bumper cars.

"Hey there! Today you're getting to drive. Your assignment: get in a car, and ram the hell out of people. Each other, or whoever these other people are-" NPCs. "-hell, you can try to ram down the wall and drive it out into the wild, I don't care."

So You Want To Be A Jedi, Again, Some More, Monday Period 3

[jedigrammarians]

Aphra had her students meet her in the park today.

"Hope you all remembered to bring your laser swords, because we're about to embark on our next step towards being a Jedi, learning philosophy while hitting each other with with glowing sticks!"

You say kata, she says something completely different...

"More specifically, you're going to learn about the Jedi Code, and because the Jedi were around a few thousand years, boy have people had a bunch of different opnions on it."

"So pair up and start hitting."

Sam Eagle Presents: A Salute To... [Tuesday, 5/18, 4th Period]

[but_mostly_america]

Once again, Sam Eagle could be found behind a podium and in front of an American flag.

“Welcome back,” Sam called out, once again at precisely the moment when the workshop was due to begin. “I see you have all returned to once again be enlightened on important topics. Excellent. Fine upstanding young citizens, all of you.”

Well, not Beaker. Obviously not Beaker. Never Beaker.

“Today,” Sam continued, “we shall discuss that most wholesome and traditional of American desserts...the apple pie!”

“Ahem. A Salute to All Desserts But Mostly Apple Pie, a lecture by Sam Eagle.”

“As I said, apple pie is the most American of all desserts. You have, of course, heard the expression ‘American as apple pie,’” Sam said. Yes, he assumed his students were all familiar with Americana because he could not fathom why they might not.

“Why, Americans have been making this pie for hundreds of years! The very first cookbook ever written in America contained not one but two recipes for this dessert! Of course it did. That is only fitting for apple pie.”

“Of course, apples are not native to this country unless you are referring to crabapples which do not make a good pie. But apples are American now and that is what is important! For without fine, American apples how could we have fine, American apple pie?”

“Do not,” Sam added, even more seriously than usual, “ever accept a pie prepared by any Swedish chefs. Trust me, students, you will regret it.”

“Now! Let us discuss other, lesser desserts. You may begin,” he said, pointing a wing at the student closest to him. “Tell us about a dessert and why it is inferior to apple pie! And remember, students, a dessert should always come after a wholesome and nutritional meal!”