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Jeremy Darling ([personal profile] stars_and_money) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2013-01-05 01:12 pm

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

It was a new year, and with the new year came the new spring term, and Fandom High was all set to welcome its new students, along with those just returning from holiday trips home. It was a familiar setting for the latter bunch: there was the requisite bonfire, with tables and chairs scattered around it, as well as the buffet table with moldable warm food and drinks.

And of course, name tags and lists of Big and Little Siblings as well as roommates. Yep, the weather was okay for early January, and Fandom was all ready to celebrate the start of a new term.

[OCD up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]
locointhecoco: (giant grin)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] locointhecoco 2013-01-05 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
Pinkie could barely contain her excitement (and honestly, wasn't trying that hard). Here she was, all set to start a new semester with one her best friends on the island as a coteacher, plus she got to get yet another new teaching buddy! She was practically vibrating, standing with a giant, brightly colored "WELCOME!" sign attached to a harness on her back and her wagon set up next to her. Every now and then, she bounced up to see if she could spot her new teaching buddy through the crowd.

She wondered if she put the confetti and the cake in the right places this time. Ah well, she'd find out when she sang the welcome song!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] nips-your-nose.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, weirder things had happened to Jack than being swept to some airport, wandering onto the shuttle, and then finding out that there was a table with a nametag sitting on it waiting for him. And a sibling assignment. And a room. And a class schedule.

But hey, some Tony kid was assigned to explain what the heck was going on, here? Jack didn't really expect much to come of that, considering he hadn't been seen by mortal eyes in his entire 300 years, but it would probably be interesting to see what happened.

He was looking pretty amused as he wandered around, checking nametags to see which of these poor schmucks had been paired off with the 'imaginary' kid.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] nips-your-nose.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
"And a room, too? I hope this Charley kid likes snowballs in the middle of summer."

Because, really, if someone was going to go to the trouble of giving him a bed to sleep in and somebody to share his room with, Jack, who was looking thoughtfully down at his room key, his staff in his other hand, was going to pretty much need to mess with this guy's head, right?

It was a moral imperative.
not_a_whiner: (kaidan: guarded)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] not_a_whiner 2013-01-05 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Kaidan was just sticking to his normal Alliance casuals today - no need to get the dress uniform back out. He was still in reasonably good spirits, which meant he was, for the most part, holing up somewhere near the center of the picnic. Keeping his eyes out for whoever this 'John Constantine' guy was.
genesishero: (Trying to Read)

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] genesishero 2013-01-05 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
Evan was bouncing on his toes as he wandered around the picnic, looking for someone who looked like royalty. And it was probably easy enough to assume that it was because he was excited to be paired off with a prince, sure, but mostly it was because he had a sibling at all. The school had given him a responsibility, and now he was going to do the best job at it that he possibly could.

Hopefully he'd put together enough informational materials for his new sibling to really get an idea of what he was getting himself into. His arms were pretty full of printouts from the library about gremlins and weird weather and invasions, but he hadn't been able to find anything about pink ponies anywhere.
genesishero: (Curious)

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] genesishero 2013-01-05 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
Evan had been thrilled to hear that he'd been assigned a new roomie this semester, too! But now he found himself staring at the new roomie listing, baffled.

"... They have me sharing a room with a girl?"

It wasn't that he wasn't aware that this sort of thing happened! Really! It was more that... well... he just hadn't imagined it happening to him. What would his Ma think?!
furnaceface: (Snapple)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Jono had actually dragged himself to the picnic today, crutches and all, with something that at least passingly resembled a smile on his face. After all, it was the new semester, and after all his years on the island, he'd been through a good many of these. He was pretty certain he'd seen the island as about as crazy as it could get.

He had parked himself off to the side, sitting on a park bench with his crutches propped up on it beside him, and was idly sipping from a cup of coffee. So far, this new batch of students wasn't hurting his brain. That was a good sign.
sith_happened: (Default)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin was there after another successful shuttle run back from the airport (though those riding with him might disagree with that assessment), glancing around the crowd for familiar faces.
sith_happened: (Anakin: bw suspenders)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin tilted his head. "Bar fight?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] professor-lyman.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Josh and his giant cup of Starbucks coffee (brought from DC--it wasn't that he didn't trust the stuff from the Perk, it was that he needed some coffee to get him from his apartment with Donna to the school) made his way over to where the grown ups seemed to be sequestered.

"Please don't let me recognize any of the students," he chanted quietly to himself.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] professor-lyman.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Josh stopped to stare. "New school mascot?" he wondered.

Yes, he'd taught vampires the last time, but a talking pink pony? Riiiiight.
locointhecoco: (Default)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] locointhecoco 2013-01-05 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Omigosh, where?!" said the pony, spinning in place to see the new mascot.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] professor-lyman.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. My. God.," Josh replied. "Are you a robot?"
furnaceface: (Eheheh...)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I usually come out looking a little better after bar fights," Jono replied, turning a wry smile Anakin's way. "This bloke had bigger, pointier weapons than me, and we were on his home turf."

... Which, in fairness, could still suggest that he'd been in a bar fight.
whenshewasnice: ([neu] Here now gone tomorrow.)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] whenshewasnice 2013-01-05 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Natalie wasn't a teacher or even an adult, though she was looking for one.

Not this particular one, but her attention was caught all the same. "Well, that's promising."

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] reven8e.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Emily took a second of silence to thank whatever god she had to thank for being paired with another girl, as it seemed like that wasn't a definite form around here. Then again, she wondered if she would need to get into whatever girls stuff this Karina was into. Emily was so not looking forward braiding someone else's hair or waxing off some girl's legs for the sake of ~friendship~.

"Well, it could be worse."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] professor-lyman.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"What part?" Josh asked, raising an eyebrow.
nottrivial: (Default)

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-01-05 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Alec had been assigned to a Katherine Bishop, apparently, which was just a tiny bit confusing because he couldn't seem to find anyone by that name. The especially frustrating part was that he knew he'd be mocked endlessly by Jace if it turned out he lost his charge before he even met her, so he was pretty sure he'd be spending the entire picnic looking around.
sith_happened: (Anakin: b&w intense)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"At the risk of asking the obvious, why fight him when he had the advantage?"
arsenicmauls: (fact: backpack)

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] arsenicmauls 2013-01-05 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Gert wasn't sure how she felt about having an older kid assigned to show her around the school, but after all the traveling she'd done this morning, she was less than enthusiastic about things in general. She begrudgingly affixed a name tag to one of the straps of her backpack so this Hanna person could find her, then got to work setting up a water bowl for the seven-foot dinosaur at her side while they looked around.

This was definitely not what she'd been expecting.

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