Photography Basics: Color - Monday, Second Period [06/17].

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"Hey, everyone!" Feeling pretty good and still kind of riding that Dad's Day high, Prompto couldn't help meeting the class with a pleased grin that week. "Welcome back. No need to waste too much time explaining the deal today, since it's the same as all the other days. Let's see what you've got for your blue photos, and then we'll dive into our last colors for the class: indigo and violet! Now, you might be thinking, 'but Prompto! Those are two different colors!' and technically you'd be right, but, while earlier in the specturm, the distinctions between the colors are more dramatic, when you get to this end? Not so much. There's a lot of overlap between darker blues and indigo, and, of course, indigo also is similiar to a lot of darker purples. I actually looked up, too, why they were different on the spectrum when they're so similiar, just to make sure I wasn't committing some criminal offense by mushing them together, and you know what? Honestly? It sounds like they just really wanted to do seven colors because seven was considered a magical number back then, and so, behold! Indigo and violet instead of just an umbrella purple.

"We're going to just stick with purple and explore the range of both," he informed them, "but first? We've got some stuff to...blue..."

He hit them with a broad grin. Just try and stop him from the bad puns!

"...by looking at your pictures from last week. Who's up first this time??"

Video Games are Great!; Monday, Third Period [06/17].

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"Today," said Yukari, "we're going to be learning about FPSs, or first person shooters to the lame non-gamer. And that title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? The point-of-view is your own, therefore 'first person' and you shoot at things, therefore shooter! And while the thought occurred to me that we could do something like a field trip to a laser tag arena or something like that to sort of bring the feel of an FPS to real life, the whole point of this course is that real life is boring and pedestrian, but video games are awesome and great! So that definitely wasn't going to cut it, especially not when we can bring the FPS to us and make it way cooler!"

By literally just making the danger shop into a laser tag arena. But with cooler guns! And helmets! And monsters to shoot instead of your classmates!

Well, you could still shoot your classmates. "That," Yukari explained cheerfully, "is called friendly fire! Because you're all on the same team, so try and help each other instead just sniping someone because they wouldn't let you copy your notes from another class or totally kicked your butt during one of those things they do in the park every week.

"So, gear up, we'll do a quick tutorial lesson, and then let's get shooting!"

Cats! Monday, 4th period

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It was Portalocity again today, and Jon met the students there. "There's a phenomenon that's started in the last decade or so called a cat cafe," he explained. "Coffee or tea cafes bring in cats that are often up for adoption and let you interact with them while you eat. There are quite a few in Japan, where it started, but I thought we'd stick to English-speaking areas. Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium is a London cafe that offers cream tea - tea with scones - and a number of lovely cats. So, let's go enjoy them!"

Paintball, 1st Period - Monday

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Today there were enough plastic balls for everyone to fit inside. Human hamster balls! Apparently a thing!

"So, we're trying something new!" Tony said. This was all because of yesterday, folks. Aaaall because of yesterday.

This was a totally normal result of Father's Day! Shh. "Rather than hitting each other, you must run through a minefield in these balls," Steve said like that was a normal thing to do in a class. "Fastest one through who remains uncovered in paint wins."

"Let's get to it," Tony said, clapping his hands together like it would encourage everyone to enjoy this.

"It's going to be swell!" Steve added enthusiastically.