fandomhigh | Detention, 02/11

The Danger Room is set up to look like an ordinary classroom today, with slightly squeaky desks arranged in a semicircle, alphabets of many nations bordering the walls, and a flag hanging above the blackboard at the front of the room. The air smells, although not unpleasantly, of chalkdust and stale cafeteria food. In a room off to the side that resembles a formal Victorian dining room, there are a table, chairs and a sideboard from which students will take their lunch, though no food is visible at first.

The names of the students with detention are written on the chalkboard in Dream's flowing hand. He crosses each name off as the student enters:

~~John Crichton~~
~~Hamlet Dane, Jr.~~
Lily Evans
~~Janet Fraiser~~
Yuffie Kisagari
~~Nadia Santos~~
Kristy Thomas

Dream stands before the assembled students in his formal robes.

"Hello. I trust you all know why you are here.

I have been asked to furnish activities, and have done so. Likewise your lunch will be provided. Should all go well, I anticipate releasing you well in time for your evening meal. Should all not go well, you may learn what imprisonment truly is."

"Now, sign in and begin your assigned activities."

At 12:30 p.m. FHT, Dream briefly enters the lunchroom. When he leaves, a banquet has been arranged. Students may now eat, should they want to.

At 7 p.m. FHT, he rouses the sleepers and sends all of the students out the door.

[OOC note: Dream-mun has left the building for the night. I'll try to wrap these threads tomorrow. Also, minimal/handwaved participation on some activities is fine for those of you who might sign in late.]

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I am a teacher of languages. Find and conjugate four verbs from the European language of your choice. Provide relevant translations.

Spanish verbs
French verbs (http://french.about.com/library/weekly/bltopicsub-v.htm)
Italian verbs (http://italian.about.com/library/fare/blfareindex05.htm)
German verbs (http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_index.htm)
(http://spanish.about.com/od/conjugation/)

Oh, hell. Janet never took Languages of Europe, and anything she's overheard from Liz has been Russian. Though Daniel has a thing for French, so she picks that in the hopes of the handful of words he's used around her has sunk in.

Which, of course, they haven't.

Janet spends a very frustrating time trying to conjugate French verbs based on half-remembered phrasing. Thank goodness they covered Latin last semester--and that she's had a lot of background in it. She barely manages to get two sets of verbs correct, completely messes up an irregular verb she'd picked without realizing it was irregular, and gets at least half of the last verb conjugations wrong.

John grimaces. He's barely fluent in the English language.

John picks the Spanish language because he's seen Spanish spoken, heard it before and might be able to cobble something together.

Of course, he'd thought it'd be easy but the Spanish language has all kinds of accent marks and odd looking words. John starts conjugating and starts out okay. The verb isn't irregular but he keeps spelling things wrong. He's chosen vivir which, he thinks, means living and starts slowly writing out the conjugation. I live, we live, you live, I lived, I am living, we are living, we have lived.

It all turns out quite badly. He gets a few right but spells the conjugated verbs wrong several times, forgets accent marks and writes video instead of vivir once.

It takes Nadia all of about thirty seconds to finish this one, since Spanish is actually her first language. If this were for an actual class, she might have picked French or German to give herself a challenge, but it was detention, one she hadn't even earned, so she was going to do as little work as she could get away with.

Of course, her first language is an Argentinian dialect of Spanish, so she might not have gotten all the verbs right.

*Hamlet cheers up a little bit when he sees the first detention activity, having taken Dream's Languages of Europe class last semester and gotten a pretty good mark in in. While Horatio would have encouraged him to pick German as a challenge, he decides on the French to finish quicker.*

Je suis, tu es, il est,... I am, thou art, he is,...

*He smiles to himself. Yep, just like a test last semester.*

Je tue, tu tues, il tue,... I kill, thou killest, he kills,...

*Halfway through, he starts wondering if he needed to provide the feminine version of some of these too. Ah well, too late for that.*

Je meurs, tu meurs, il meurt,... I die, thou diest, he dies,..."

*And an irregular one.*

Il pleut. It rains.

*He finished up with a sigh of relief. Some of the spellings are off in the plural conjugations, but for the most part, things are pretty good.*

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