Pony Express: Friendship is Cultural Exchange! Wednesday, period 1

[locointhecoco]

Class met up outside Portalocity, where their extremely pink, extremely excitable teacher was pacing rapidly back and forth. "Hihihi everypony!" she greeted at high speed when it seemed like everypony had arrived (and maybe she rushed off and pushed the last student into line if they seemed to be taking too long). "I'm Pinkie Pie, your guide on this wonderful amazingest field trip class toooooooo --" No, you can't figure out where that drumroll is coming from. "-- EQUESTRIA!" Pinkie threw her front hooves into the air in an explosion of confetti.

Get used to that, kids, it'll be happening a lot.

"Now, I know the first week is usually all about introductions and all but that's pretty boring and I already know mooooooooooost of you, so we're going to get right on to it," Pinkie said, as she led the class through the portal that managed to appear just behind her, right on schedule, and somehow also actually led to where they were actually planning to go. "And you can introduce yourselves to each other while you introduce yourselves to some of my very bestest pony friends in my hometown," and somehow she'd managed to time the line moving through the portal so that the last student should hopefully step out onto the bright yellow path through bright green grass just as she said "PONYVILLE!"

Did you guess there'd be more confetti when she said that? YOU WERE RIGHT! HURRAY!

"Look out!" somepony shouted from above them, and a grey, blonde, cross-eyed pegasus went careening by, buzzing just over the students' heads. (You all had your brains broken already by now, right? Er. Sorry new kids, you're getting tossed into the deep end.) A blue pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail flapped above them, face-hooving. "Sorry about that!"

"Sorry," agreed the grey pony sheepishly, and she rose back into the air much more slowly than she'd come down.

Pinkie waved, unperturbed. "Hi Derpy! Hi Rainbow Dash!"

"This is your class, huh, Pinkie?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yuppers!" Pinkie put her hoof in her mouth and let out a piercing whistle. "And we're already behind schedule. Hop-to, everypony! We've got a very special somepony waiting for us!" And she led the way through the quaint little vaguely-Elizabethan styled town towards a large tree with doors, windows, and balconies on it. She waved to everypony they passed, greeting many of them by name, a process that happened fast enough that all the syllables ran together into a nigh indecipherable mess.

She was clearly in a bit of a hurry.

"Here we are!" she finally announced as she reached the door in the tree. "Golden Oak Library, home of my very specialst purple unicorn friend, Twilight Sparkle!"

Confetti.

As advertised, when the confetti cleared a purple unicorn stood before them, puffing confetti out of her bangs with a slightly irritated frown. She blinked once when she spotted the students and smiled brightly. "Hi there," she said, her voice just as warm and cheerful as Pinkie's, but turned down on the squeakiness by several thousand degrees. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, personal student to Princess Celestia, and one of Pinkie's best friends. I'm here to help answer any questions you may have about Equestria's history or the variety of creatures who live here. It's very nice to meet all of you."

"Psst," Pinkie hissed, elbowing the nearest student. Because ponies have elbows. "That's your cue to introduce yourselves!"

At least it was maybe reassuring to note that even Twilight's smile seemed slightly strained by Pinkie's antics.

She was going to be cleaning confetti out of her books forever.

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[locointhecoco]

What have you gotten yourselves into?!

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[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

Dipper Pines

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[hexentotchen.livejournal.com]

Hanna Heller

Walk through town!

[locointhecoco]

This is a great time to chat amongst yourselves! Or boggle at the candy colored horses everywhere! Or curl into an overwhelmed ball and have to be dragged along behind the rest of the class by a disgruntled Rainbow Dash!

Yay!

Re: Walk through town!

[hexentotchen.livejournal.com]

Even for Pinkie Pie's classes, this was... a tad extreme.

But good! Cool! ... and confetti-covered, wow.

Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

Tell us your name and why you signed up for this class!

Re: Introductions!

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

Dipper had been too busy writing everything down in his journal before realizing that he had to respond to someone. Somepony.

"Oh! Uh. Hi! I'm Dipper Pines and I signed up to visit a totally different world. With talking ponies. Which you know because you're a pony and you talk."

...

"I'll shut up now."

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Okay!" Pinkie said, tilting her head. ". . . Why?"

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[hexentotchen.livejournal.com]

"Hanna Heller," Hanna said, smiling, and reaching out for a candy-colored flower. "I have taken other classes from you, and enjoyed them, and I always leave-- happy." Or full of sugar. Or both. "So, I decided I deserved one class which would do that for me, no matter what."

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[locointhecoco]

"AWWWW!" Pinkie squealed.

Were you ready for a pony hug Hanna? God I hope so because there was no stopping Pinkie from hugging you. Even Twilight making a reaching hoof motion as if to stop her. That wasn't going to work. (That never ever worked.)

"I love you, too!"

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[spin_kick_snap]

"Hi," Kathy said, giving the assembled ponies a little wave. "I'm Kathy Li and I'm a senior. This is my first class with Ms. Pie, but when I saw she was going to be bringing us to explore her world and learn about pony culture, I just had to sign up."

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[omgnochecksyet]

"I'm Eric Bittle, and I signed up for this class because the description was amazing and I'm always up for learning about different cultures!"

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[dwarvenswagger]

"What." You know, for a dwarf from a land where there was a noble king of all horses and a floating eyeball of doom, this reaction was uncalled for.

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[that_oldsaying]

"I'm Alluka Zoldyck!" she said brightly, once it was her turn. "I'm here because And because Pinkie is super smart and I want to be like her when I get bigger! And, and because going different places is the best!"

The fact that there was confetti in her hair (and on her stuffed giraffe) and talking ponies everywhere just made the whole travel thing even better.

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[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

"I'm Alex Mack," Alex said when it was her turn, "and I signed up for this class because it looked like fun and I was interested in visiting other worlds,"

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[voiceoverdue]

"Hello." Cecil waved at all the ponies. "I'm Cecil. I just thought this class seemed like fun!"

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[not_a_moonie]

"Hey, I'm Alana," Alana said, still brushing confetti out of her hair. "I signed up because I'm one of the not-from-Earth types and any chance to see a world that isn't all human is good by me. Plus I haven't had a class with you yet, and this is my last year, sooo..."

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[sampippy]

Yeah.

Yeah.

Xanthippe had actually been stunned into silence by all of this. Including the moment she was supposed to introduce herself.

Re: Introductions!

[yogurtvore]

"I'm Blue Sargent and I thought this wouldn't look too fake on my transcripts when I apply to college." She might be questioning that choice now...

Talk to Twilight Sparkle (and Pinkie Pie)!

[locointhecoco]

"Twilight here knows absolutely everything about absolutely everything!" Pinkie enthused. "You can ask her ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!"

"Er," said Twilight. "Within reason. But if I don't know the answer off the top of my head, I'm sure I could look it up. Our collection here is second only to the royal library at the palace in Canterlot."

Re: Talk to Twilight Sparkle (and Pinkie Pie)!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Excuse me," Kathy said politely when Twilight Sparkle seemed to be free. "You really live in the library? And you can tell us all about pony history and culture?" It was hard to stay polite-sounding when she was getting consistently more excited. "Oh my gosh, I have so many questions!"

Re: Talk to Twilight Sparkle (and Pinkie Pie)!

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil was eyeing the tree a bit dubiously. "Are your librarians dangerous here?"

Explore Ponyville!

[locointhecoco]

There's Sugarcube Corner, shaped like it's made of gingerbread and selling the very best baked goods Mr. and Mrs. Cake have to offer! There's Carousel Boutique, for all the latest in pony fashions, crafted and curated by Ponyville's own future fashion star, Rarity! There's Sweet Apple Acres, where all the business of keeping Ponyville in apples and apple products happens! Plus plenty of other landmarks and businesses, chock full of helpful (and only sometimes staring wide-eyed and gasping) ponies!

Pinkie recommends Quills and Sofas. Buy yourself a souvenir! She is not going to help you carry a sofa home, though.

[ooc: all locations on the wikia Ponyville page linked above are open for modding, save for the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom Castle, as it doesn't exist yet in Fandom Pinkie's timeline!]

Re: Explore Ponyville!

[omgnochecksyet]

... Is anyone really surprised that the first place Eric felt he needed to check out was the gingerbread-looking place with all the sweets in the windows.

And oh my god it was beautiful.

OOC!

[locointhecoco]

Also Pinkie is Ringo. It's canon.

I love my show.