ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [07/08].

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Hello, everyone!" Summer greeted the class with a level of brightness that should probably be considered slightly unhinged given the current circumstances. "And welcome to the class that is a direct result of no one appreciating my sense of humor and quite possibly the worst way to start your day. That's right, we're talking about actually ancient food crimes, stuff from, like, way, way back, because apparently? Some of you are super into that."

Which was one way to put it, sure. But the fact that people kept signing up for this shit was also some pretty good proof positive.

"That said," she added, "for those of you who have been in my previous food classes, this is definitely going to go way beyond putting fish in desserts and spam in jello. Some of this stuff is really gnarly and probably considered pretty taboo to more modern sensibilities. We're not, like, going to go full cannibal with it or anything,"--(sorry, Hannibal!)--, "but some of this stuff might make some people a little...squeamish. A little uncomfortable. So please know that actually trying the dishes is entirely optional, especially if you have any certain conditions,"--(Liz)--, "allergies or dietary restrictions that prevent you from eating certain things. Wanting to nope out for the day is also completely valid. After all, there are very good reasons why these are ancient food crimes that have been lost to the annals of history. Because they're mostly disgusting and terrible and we've all moved on.

"I do want to start with introductions, though," she continued, "if only because it helps us ease into it, and even though I already know....most of you," --(hello, Eddie, where have you been hiding?)--"I'd still like to get a good idea on what you're hoping to get from this class and if there's anything in particular you might like to see, either specifically or broadly speaking, as the weeks go on. I do have ideas, and almost too many of them, but I'm always open to new ones, especially if you've got some truly heinous experiences.

"So, we'll do that, and then it's time to explore what I've got in store for you today and we'll discuss the criminal nature of it, whether it deserves to be vilified, and whatever else we want to contribute to the discussion. I'll go first."

Cupcakes, Friday 7/8, period 2

[stykera]

Class was meeting in the home ec room today as cupcake class nearly always did. Stark was standing at the front of the room as he nearly always did. There was a box on the counter in front of him as there nearly always was. There were also trays of chocolate and yellow cupcakes currently lacking in frosting.

“Welcome. And welcome back to some of you,” he said, looking around the room and turning his head slightly to do so. “I’m Stark, if any of you don’t know me.”

“I thought, today, since this is the first day for some of you, we would wait on baking. I have some unfrosted cupcakes here, and a few types of frosting, and some and you can decorate if you like.”

Stark paused and opened the box in front of him warily. “I have some frosting in here. Chocolate. Vanilla.” He pulled those two out and placed them on the counter before reaching in to the box again. “Peanut butter. And…some candies and fruits you can mix in if you like?” He was frowning at the box now, confused. “It seems that everything in the box today was meant to be in the box today.”

Summer was absolutely getting a confused but relieved look right now if she was there to be looked at.

“Right. Well. You can decorate some cupcakes if you like. First, introductions since I don’t think we all know each other. You can say as much as you like, or as little, but at least your names? Why you’re here, if you want. Maybe your favorite cupcake ingredient?”

Please don’t tell everyone your favorite cupcake ingredient is some sort of seafood or maggots Summer. Don’t make the alien sad.

Relationship Skills, Friday Period 3

[tellmehowstuffworks]

The classroom was set up with pillows instead of chairs or desks because the teachers preferred to be comfortable whilst bitching about certain people in their lives in order to teach the subject.

Also magic.

Also for the record, the teachers should never be allowed to do paperwork while alcohol was involved.

"Good morning," Yennefer said to the class, looking shockingly like someone who had the first clue what she was doing. It was a skill they taught at Aretuza. Also, was it still morning? She had no idea, and didn't care. "I am Yennefer of Vengerburg, and this is the bard Jaskier, and this is...Relationship Skills." After a beat, she added, rather quickly, "We are not in a relationship." The horror.

"Oh, goodness no," Jaskier said, making such a face. "But we do have quite a bit of experience with the worst relationship you could ask for. The same person, in fact. It's a thing, really."

"Yes, and what it's made us realize is that some people simply don't know how to be in relationships. Hence..." Yennefer gestured vaguely. "This workshop. So to start we'd like for everyone to introduce themselves and please tell us why you think you need better relationship skills." So they could judge you.

Beginning Sith Philosophy, Friday

[unusual_sith]

When the students arrived in the classroom, they'd find Lana up front leaning against the teacher's desk, wearing a green tunic-like blouse, grey trousers, and doc martens. Was this what you expected in a Sith?

"Hello and welcome," she said pleasantly. "It's good to see you all here. I'm going to be teaching Sith philosophy - to be clear, this is not 'how to be a Sith'. That would be impossible for many of you and pointless for the rest. But there's been a lot of misunderstanding over the years as to what Sith philosophy actually is, and a lot of debate about it even among the Sith, and they do say teach what you know."

She gestured back at the whiteboard behind her, on which was written: Peace is a lie, there is only passion. "The first line of the Sith code, which may need a bit of introduction by way of the first line of the Jedi code, which begins, 'there is no emotion, there is peace'. Obviously this was created in direct opposition to that.

"The Sith were partly founded by rogue Jedi who saw the original code, which eschews all emotion, as overly restrictive. They viewed emotion as a valuable way of connecting with the Force, the life force that permeates the universe. High emotion, passion, was important, and the sort of peace that comes of ignoring emotions is, as it says, a lie."

She grinned. "At least, that's my reading of it. All philosophy is debate, after all. So, let's do the traditional introductions, and tell me what you think of this line."

She nodded to the first student.

Library - Friday

[onlyajones]

There was no flags in the library this week when Jo came in for her shift and at first she didn’t think there was anything strange or unusual happening and it was only when she tries to reshelve some books that she soon realised the books had decided to change genre locations again and she had a larger than normal stack of books to reshelve as well.

After a while she decided to give up trying to put the books back and found a book on British history in the stack so she decided to read that and get a bit more information for her British history class as well.