Reclaiming Your Childhood, Tuesday, Period [12/9]

[atreideslioness]

Students today had been instructed to meet at Ghanima's classroom today, where there were trucks and trunks of winter gear. Snow suits, boots, mittens, hats, scarves... if you could dream it, she had it, in your size.

Brand new, even, as if perhaps some winter fairy had gone shopping with each person in mind.

"Suit up," Ghanima said cheerfully, doing her best to wrangle mittens on to a reticent Trebor. "We're popping off-campus to go play outside -- to go sledding!"

"A lot of Earth media about winter or winter holidays has a scene in it about sledding, also known as sledging or sleighing. It is a winter sport typically carried out in a prone or seated position on a vehicle generically known as a sled. It is also the basis of three Olympic sports: luge, skeleton and bobsledding."

"The practical use of sleds is ancient and widespread. They were used as vehicles to transport materials and/or people, often in icy and snowy conditions. Early designs included hand-pulled sizes as well as larger dog, reindeer, horse, or ox drawn versions."

"In the modern day, the term 'sledding' refers to traveling down a snowy hill using a flat sled, sometimes made out of wood, but flat plastic or aluminum discs and improvised sleds such as baking trays, cafeteria trays, sheets of cardboard, car tires, and so on, may also be used.

"Dress for warmth," she warned, "as we will be outside for the next hour. However, if it gets to be too much, you can always come back to the classroom to warm up."

Dealing With Other People's Trauma, Tuesday 12/9

[stykera]

“The reindeer,” Stark said with a sigh, “are not attacking even if you think they are because you were once attacked by an inflatable reindeer that tried to eat you.”

He paused. “That was almost certainly just my experience. Never mind. In any case, the reindeer are not trying to hurt anyone.”

Probably. But who knew, really?

“So. I was frightened by that, briefly.” But he had not shot any reindeer, he'd just jumped and screamed a little it was fine.

“Sometimes, things you don't expect can come up. Like reindeer running towards you. Or anything else that might remind you of a negative memory. Winter is like that for me. Cold weather and snow and ice often have me remembering things I'd rather not spend too much time thinking of. A…a lot of things happened in the winter but we're not here to talk about me. Not really. We're here to talk about other things. Like…are you all all right, with the newest things happening on our island?”

“If you're not, is there anything I can do to help? Besides the snacks, of course.” Snacks almost went without saying. Almost.

“Were your sweaters all right yesterday? Or the falling candy? Or the bears? I like the bears but they could be frightening if you weren't expecting them.”

Diplomacy, Tuesday, December 9, 2nd period

[sith_happened]

The classroom was set up like a call center, several reindeer somehow managing to get headsets around their antlers and lights. "Welcome to telling people what they don't want to hear, but in a nice way," began the man not known for ever telling anyone anything in a nice way.

"A properly diplomatic tone can smooth over any number of situations, even when it would be more satisfying in the short-term to knock head together," Ahsoka said in the tone of someone who'd been witness to many such occasions.

"That's why this exercise is over the comms instead of in person," Anakin said. "As long as you control your voice, your face can do whatever it wants."

including judging you, as shown by Ahsoka's as she continued. "You'd be surprised what you can get away with if you sound sufficiently mysterious and wise."