Home Economics; Friday, Second Period [01/21].

[chef_chocobro]

Thinking too much about yesterday had Ignis' head hurting quite a bit, so he was looking forward to today's lesson especially. Granted, he was already eager to get to it, far more eager than anyone should be regarding this topic, but a focus on order and tangible principles felt particularly welcome after yesterday's oddities and chaos.

"Good morning," Ignis greeted the class with a nod, "and welcome back. I hope you've all had a chance to explore last week's topic with a trip to Turtle & Canary to see about pursuing a grocery list, and I'd like to start today's class with a small discussion on how your ventures into shopping went, and what you may have learned or struggled with. Do I have any voluneers to begin?"

And after the last student who wished to share had gone, Ignis nodded again. "Excellent," he said. "Now, let us move on to our topic for today, which ties in very closely with last week's topic, and that is budgeting as a whole. Now, some of you may be thinking we're approaching this a bit backwards, that covering budgeting might have been more useful to you in the creation of your grocery lists, but I also thought that approaching it from this direction would give a unique perspective on where errors were made and where to fix them. After all, they say mistakes are often the best teacher, but don't let that out too much, or we may all be out of a job."

He took a moment to look terribly pleased at that joke before continuing. "So what is budgeting, anyway? Well, simply put, to make a budget is to manage your money and make a plan for how to best spend, save, and invest it to make the most out of it. For the purposes of ease and convenience, we will be mostly using standard American currency in our classes, but I do have a very helpful chart and conversion tables if anyone is interested or would like to work in a more familiar currency other than the one we use here on the island, by gracious courtesy of the Fandom Bank. So, with that said, let us begin..."

At which point he had reached the board, and the lecture began in earnest, with a great many figures and examples going up on the board as he detailed how one might approach budgeting from various different perspectives and style, as well as breaking down different methods of organizing, from good old pen and paper, the use of spreadsheets, and even the availability of apps that make budgeting a breeze for the more technologically savvy of home managers.

And, with that, he turned back to the students with a nod, gesturing slightly with his opened hands. "Let's take a moment," he said, "to put out any questions regarding budgeting you may have, and, once those are answered, hopefully, you will be ready to give it a try with these various worksheets for practice."

PE and Health Class - Friday - First Period

[alwaysonguard]

"Alright!" Gladio called out to grab everyone's attention when it was time to begin class, which would find themselves standing on a basketball court, where one of their teachers was standing there with a round orange ball.

So, you know, prizes to whoever could guess what they were doing that day.

"First things first!" Gladio, who was holding something that was not a round orange ball, continued. "You'll need to hit the locker rooms quick to change into these." He tossed one over to the first student, and then the others. "I've got one for each of you; consider it a donation from the Crownsguard's back room. It'll be your new uniform for the class. And before you say anything, if you're going to be in a uniform, just be glad it's these and not what the school provides for that sort of thing."

He may have given a subtle nod to Jo before turning it over to Dwight.

"So, once you have your new gear on, we're going to meet back here for some teacher vs student basketball fun" Dwight chimed in cheerfully as he gave the ball he was holding a couple of impressive spins on his finger as he spoke. "The four of you against the two of us!"

Which really, was a fairly even match considering the sheer size advantage that Gladio and Dwight had over even the tallest of their students. Four against two was a pretty fair line up all things considering. And if nothing else, Dwight hoped it would be a good chance to just have some fun and let the class have a go at some teamwork practice.

"Think it should be a good run for us today, and I know Gladio and I are both excited. So, go get changed, and then let's see what ya have out on the court!"

"Oh!" Gladio called out a moment later, before they managed to get too far. "And just as a heads-up and a fair warning," he had a feeling some of them would need that warning more than others, "next week, you're gonna wanna make sure to come prepared with swimwear, got it? Alright. Now go suit up."

Drama, Friday, January 21, 2022

[sith_happened]

"So yesterday kind of killed the fun of playing emotional dice today," Anakin said as he hopped up onto the stage. "So today we will do a different exercise: Meet My Friend. Turn to the person to your left: that's the person you are introducing. You do not get to talk to them. It doesn't matter if you know them--it's actually better if you don't. Your job is to introduce this friend of yours with the most ridiculous back story you can come up with. The person you are introducing is not allowed to laugh. Whoever stays stoic the longest wins."

He smiled. "And then you can all take turns introducing me to the class."

Library - Friday

[onlyajones]

There were no tiny dragons flying around the library this week when Jo opened up the library once she had finished her classes.

In fact everything seemed to be rather normal as she took a quick look around and made her way slowly to the front desk. She didn’t seem to have that many books to return this week, which was a good thing since she was still trying to take it easy with her knee so she was mostly keeping to the front desk area today.