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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."

[ooc: wait for ocd up!]

[Class Roster|Class Rules]

Re: Sign In - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
Hiccup ...and Toothless.

Re: Sign In - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
Kyle Reese

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: Introductions - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Kyle. I learned to swim in your class last semester," he said to Bond, "I don't know anything about boats except that they float and..." Kyle faltered. "I can't think of anything interesting."

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: Vest Up! - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Kyle wasn't so sure about the vests. He didn't like the high visibility or the way it made his arms stick out. But he didn't like drowning even more, so he figured out how to put it on and then figured out how to take it off easily before putting it back on.

He then looked around to see if anyone needed help with their vests.

Re: Talk to the TAs - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:08 am (UTC)(link)
This was a much smaller class than Kyle was used to keeping an eye out for. The dragon made up for the size with its own size.

Re: Introductions - MS [01]

[identity profile] abitlegless.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Hiccup, and yeah, great name, I know. What can I say, it's a Viking tradition. This is Toothless, and he kind of brought himself." Hiccup scratched the side of his head, looking down at his false leg. "I used to swim, now I just kind of go around in circles," he said with a small grin. "But I'm good with boats. Lots of experience with boats. I only ran Dad's into the cliff that one time and it was completely fine."

He paused. "Well, mostly fine. And hey, that mast was pretty old anyway." Another pause. "Something interesting, something interesting..." He looked around, obviously searching, and went with, "I may be redecorating the cafeteria completely in Viking at some point?"

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: Introductions - MS [01]

[identity profile] weetinyreese.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Kyle thought about that for a moment. "The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Or did you mean about me?"
Edited 2010-05-10 11:33 (UTC)

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.

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