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.

Comments

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?"

Re: Introductions!

[buzzkillcaptain.livejournal.com]

And of course Dipper took the question the completely wrong way.

"Why do you talk? Um. Because you have vocal chords and a basic understanding of language?"

Re: Introductions!

[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."

Re: Introductions!

[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!"

Re: Introductions!

[hexentotchen.livejournal.com]

Hanna was turning pink (nowhere near as pink as Pinkie, but still) and patting the teacher on her shoulder, but yes, she was smiling. "Some things do not need a better reason, no?" And she hugged Pinkie back. "I hope everyone here enjoys this class as much as I enjoyed the others."

Re: Introductions!

[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."

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Darn tootin'!" Pinkie said. "This was totally her idea in the first place!"

Pinkie that wasn't a whisper.

Re: Introductions!

[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!"

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Omigosh thank you!" Pinkie said. "I work so hard on my class descriptions, I'm so glad you liked it!"

Re: Introductions!

[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.

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Hiya, What," Rainbow Dash said, snickering. "Nice to meetcha!"

"Rainbow Dash." Twilight frowned. "Be nice!"

Re: Introductions!

[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.

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Super smart?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Pinkie?"

"I am about friendship!" Pinkie said proudly. "Hi Alluka! What's your giraffe's name?"

RE: Introductions!

[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,"

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Well, you'll get to see at least one!" Pinkie said. "And one of the best, if I do say so myself!"

Re: Introductions!

[voiceoverdue]

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

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"It superdupertotally will be!" Pinkie cried.

"I'm having fun already," Rainbow Dash said.

Re: Introductions!

[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..."

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Finally!" Rainbow Dash said. "A proper human with wings!"

"Eeeeee I'm so glad you decided to take one of my classes!" Pinkie cheered. "It's going to be super duper fun!"

Re: Introductions!

[sampippy]

Yeah.

Yeah.

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

RE: Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"It's your turn," Pinkie whispered helpfully.

Be cause clearly this was an issue of not realizing she was next, right?

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...

Re: Introductions!

[locointhecoco]

"Yay!" said Pinkie.

"Why would a class look fake?" asked Twilight.