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James Bond ([personal profile] doubleohblonde) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2010-05-10 08:28 pm
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Maritime Safety, [Monday, Period Three]

Bond had *handwavily* informed his class to meet him at the docks, where he waited for them to arrive by a motorboat.

"Good morning," he greeted when they'd all arrived. "This is Maritime Safety, so if that's not the class you signed up for, you're in the wrong place. For those of you who haven't taken one of my classes before, I'm Professor Bond, and your TAs for this class are Kyle and Rose, I trust them implicitly and so should you." High praise that.

"The purpose of this class to teach you all something about how to handle yourself out on the open water," Bond explained. "But today we'll just be starting off with introductions and some basics of safety and boat handling. I want each of you to tell me and the rest of the class your names, if you can swim, what you already know about open water sailing, and something interesting about yourself. You start."

After the class had finished, he picked up a bright yellow and red vest, and continued. "Two things you should know. One, this is a personal floatation device, also known as a life jacket," he said, demonstrating the proper technique for donning one. "If you fall into the water, it will keep you afloat long enough for us to fish you out. We won't necessarily be using them every class, but we will today. Please put them on before we get in the boat."

He kept talking as they dressed in the vests. "Two, since you'll all actually get a chance to pilot the boat today, left is port, right is starboard." He held up the relevant hand for each. "The front or fore of a ship is the bow, and the rear or aft of one is the stern.Remember that, as I will be using that terminology. Now if you're all in your vests, into the boat."

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Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Hiccup listened carefully, standing at the back of the other students, Toothless leaning over his shoulder watchfully. This wasn't quite what he'd expected. Boats were big! And wood! And had carved dragon heads and sails and shields arrayed down the side! Well, at least the boats he was used to did. This boat was pretty small. "Well, at least it's colourful."

...and he had tried to leave the dragon behind, but a dragon pretty much goes anywhere he wants, and in this case, he'd wanted to go with Hiccup. Hiccup's plan of looking innocent and hoping no one would notice was pretty much doomed to failure.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hiccup's attempt at looking innocent was about as good as his attempt on Saturday to be hypothetical. Kyle listened to the lecture, then stared at the dragon. He could do both at the same time.

It was his first dragon. He was allowed to stare.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Toothless tilted his head to stare back, one ear cocked towards Kyle. When Hiccup saw who he was staring at, he gave a little shrug. "I guess there's no chance you're going to believe me on the whole hypothetical-dragon thing now, right?"

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
"You weren't really good at the hypothetical thing in the first place," Kyle admitted. He wasn't sure what to think of the dragon. It was big. But Hiccup had said the dragon didn't hurt people, so...he wasn't about to try to shoot it or run away from it.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
Toothless peered at Bond suspiciously and Hiccup's eyes went wide. "No, no he floats just fine on his own, uh, sir," he said hastily and then he had to ask, "Do they even make life vests that big?"

Toothless snorted and put his chin up in the air in obvious disdain. "What, it might look good on you."

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
"Or to flip the boat over," Kyle added helpfully.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
Toothless looked offended and turned his head away, Not Looking at either of them. "Ah, I think he'll stay on land today."

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] robinthefrog.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Robin was so noticing the dragon. Wow!

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The dragon and Hiccup were noticing him right back. Dragons were normal, at least in Berk; frogs like Robin not so much. Hiccup tried a tentative wave, while Toothless lowered his head to peer at Robin.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] robinthefrog.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Robin waved back cheerfully. "Hi! Are you new students?"

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-11 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
"I am," Hiccup replied. "Toothless is just here to keep me out of trouble."

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] robinthefrog.livejournal.com 2010-05-11 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"He looks like he'd be good at it."

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] shes-got-legs.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
People she recognized! Ariel's excitement was already in overdrive, but recognizing people was still pretty exciting for her, so she was waving eagerly that way.

Unfortunately, she was probably waving more at Toothless than she was Hiccup.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Toothless flicked his ears in her direction, and Hiccup waved back. Okay, yeah, he knew she was mostly waving at the dragon, but he was still going to wave.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] shes-got-legs.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
With wide, bright eyes and a big, toothy grin, Ariel gestured toward the boat that awaited them. It was the only was she really had of asking if they were as absolutely excited as she was that they were going to get on a boat, but at least she didn't have to worry too much about getting in trouble for talking in class. She did wonder if Toothless was going to try to fit inside of it, too, which would be amusing, so now she really hoped he would.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
He looked from her to the boat, and then waggled his hand, universal gesture (or so he hoped) for, 'A little bit, yeah', but he was smiling when he did it. Maybe he was a little bit excited.

Re: Listen to the Lecture - MS [01]

[identity profile] shes-got-legs.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to see that she wasn't the only one excited (although no one was probably quite as excited), Ariel just beamed, nodding her head with enthusiasm. She bit her lip and bounced on the balls of her feet (such a great sensation, having balls of feet to bounce on!) and tried, desperately, to then turn her attention back on the teacher.