Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

[bigdamnprincipal]

Some extra tables had been set up in the shade of the trees on the lawn, away from the buffet in spots where it might be less crowded and much quieter. Well, aside from the mariachi band, but at least their music was entertaining? They might even take requests!

[OCD is up, have at it! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

Mexican food was a new experience for Thomasina -- Hannah hadn't mentioned it at all over the last few days, and their takeaway had been almost exclusively chipshops, curry, and Chinese, with the one meal Hannah actually cooked herself being cheese toasties -- but at least she was growing swiftly accustomed to (and fond of) spicy foods.

So she selected a few things -- a taco, a small pile of nachos, a drink -- and sat down to enjoy it, out of the way enough that she wouldn't be in anyone's way, but hopefully not so much that she excluded herself.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

Ulrik was a bit reluctant to try the unfamiliar food (really, an entire buffet table and not a single salted fish in sight. Hrmph.), but still curious, and so when he spotted someone working on a plate, he couldn't resist asking "So, how are those?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

Thomasina smiled at the young man; she thought she recognised him from the shuttle, at least. "Spicy," she explained, "if that is something to which you are unaccustomed, but good. Quite delicious, in fact. I recommend them, if you're interested in New flavours."

[at work! SP for the win?]

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"Spicy isn't something my people's cusine is known for," Ulrik admitted. "But perhaps I ought to give it a try, all the same."

[ooc: NO I HATE SP. I mean yes, totes fine.]

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

"It is quite new for me, as well," Thomasina explained. "Within the last few days, in fact, after finding myself in the present time."

It felt oddly liberating to be comfortable just saying that, between her own roommate being time-tossed and Luke's assurances that it was normal.

"My favorite dish has always been rabbit pie, but it seems that such meats are much less common than I am accustomed."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Ulrik smiled, pleased at finding some common ground. "I take that to mean you're a down-timer as well?" English, if he wasn't mistaken, given the accent. But still. It was rather a comfort to know he wasn't the only one to be unexpectedly in the future.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

Given the context, Thomasina could decipher the meaning of that, she thought. "From two hundred years in the past, yes, if that is what 'down-timer' refers to," she agreed. "There seem to be a few of us, though my roommate is far less farflung."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"Well, that is interesting," Ulrik mused. "Ulrik," he introduced himself. "Of Denmark, and 1636."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

Thomasina blinked. "I hadn't realised English was... what you are speaking, at that point. Have you been in the present for some time, then?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"Only since this morning," Ulrik informed her. "But it is the first language of my future brother-in-law. He is the one who taught me." While a POW of the king of Denmark. But details.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[godscrankshaft.livejournal.com]

Blink. Click. "Would he be an... 'up-timer,' then?" Thomasina asked. "As you already seem to have a term for those of us gone this way, it seems reasonable that one who has taught you such modern English might have gone the other direction."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2012-1]

[nomelancholy.livejournal.com]

"Correct, on both counts," Ulrik confirmed. "He, along with the other residents of an American town, was somehow- transported to central Thuringia, about five years ago from my perspective."