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Physical Education, Thursday, May 17, 2018

Today's PE class was on a part of the beach designated for swimming. They were greeted by Steve and Tony in swimtrunks. "Hello, everyone," Steve began. "I hope you were less rainbow colored than I was after I finished up the rowboat competition yesterday."

"Though there was some concern about people's ability to swim," Tony said with a smile that said he knew well enough why people wanted Steve to rescue them. "So, today we'll be working on the basics."

Steve nodded seriously, totally not knowing why people wanted him to rescue them. "So grab a kickboard and we'll start with leg drills, and progress from there, okay?"

"But first, let's watch a PSA on water safety." Tony went through the effort of bringing one of those terribly old fashioned school TVs to the beach. All for this moment.

"You didn't," Steve hissed. "Did you borrow them from Hardison?"

"You make it sound like I can't procure them on my own," Tony said while on the TV, Captain America sat backwards on a chair to show how hip he was.

"So, you want to learn to swim--" TV Cap said in a hearty voice while Steve just shook his head and blushed.

And Tony was bust trying his very best not to laugh at poor Steve. "We can do our introductions in the water."

"Heaven forbid we interrupt the video," Steve muttered while Cap continued to talk in that same boisterous tone about the virtues of knowing how to swim.

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Ready to swim!

Theron Shan

Astrid Magnussen

Paris Geller

Jason Lee Scott

Norman Babcock

Manfred Bernardo

Khadgar

Why yes, there will be one every week.

Edited 2018-05-17 13:44 (UTC)

Well, that was just...something else.

"Please tell me they paid you a lot to look that dumb," she finally commented.

See, now, this class had been going fairly well until this part. Even the PSA/video might not have been that weird for a PE class.

But why was the teacher dressed like that??

At least it was better than what one of the Arts & Crafts teacher was actively wearing, but still. Astrid may have spent just as much time watching the video as she spent bouncing her eyes back and forth between the TV teacher and the teacher standing before them now.

Was it a character he did? Why?

And really, why did she keep questioning everything instead of just resigning herself to the fact that this was her life now?

Norman was just kind of... of staring... at the... at the whole... thing.

A lot.

"What."

This was going to leave some kind of mark on Khadgar's brain, he could already tell.

Now that you're in the water with your kickboard, tell us about yourself! Name, year, experience swimming if you have any...

"Theron, I think I'm a junior, I know how to handle myself."

That last was said with a straight face and total innocence.

"Just in swimming or in sports in general?" Steve asked.

Theron shrugged. "Depends on the sport. Don't have much experience with being a team player."

And it had showed with that rowing performance.

"We can definitely help you out there!" Steve said.

Dodgeball, Theron. Dodgeball was now allll your fault.

Though she certainly didn't need it for swimming, Astrid was clinging to her kickboard as an anchor to reality.

"I'm Astrid," she offered, legs kicking underneath her lazily, steadily; it did feel good to get in the water. "I'll be a freshman, and I've been swimming for as long as she could remember."

Whole days spent lounging in pools or on the beach, watching the waves with nothing better to do.

"Good to meet you, Astrid," Tony said. "Was there any activity in particular that you wanted us to cover?"

"Jason, I'll be a senior in the fall, and I pretty much grew up on fishing boats," he said. "If I couldn't swim, I'd've probably drowned long before now." Accurate, if maybe a little morbid.

"That's definitely a good reason to learn to swim," Tony said slowly.

A kickboard! Norman hadn't seen one of these since before he'd started actually talking back to the ghosts. He kind of grinned a little at his as he got into the water.

"I'm Norman, I'm heading into my junior year now?" Figuring out what year you were during the summer was always a bit confusing. "And I used to swim a bit as a kid, but I haven't exactly been swimming in a while."

Apparently he could row a boat just fine, though.

"Well, there's no time like the present to revisit such a good physical activity," Steve said, sounding uncannily like he did in the PSA.

And it took incredible self-control for Norman to keep from snickering at that fact.

"It helps that the weather is better than it has been now," he offered. "Though I guess there is the pool in the dorms."

But it just wasn't the same as swimming outside in the summer, okay?

"Outdoor swimming always feels better, though," Steve said. "Like jogging outside rather than on a treadmill."

"I have never used a treadmill in my life," Norman admitted with a little laugh that was somewhat on the sheepish side. "I did used to ride my bike all the time back home, but the streets here aren't so great for that."

Stupid stairs.

"Too many stairs," Steve said. "I generally stick to running here. And swimming. And rock climbing."

Norman paused for a moment, considering that.

"Rock climbing could be fun?"

It would probably be better than that time he'd almost fallen off a flying tree to his death because of an angry ghost.

"So fun," Steve assured him. "Much better than horseback riding."

Tony.

"I... have also never ridden a horse," Norman admitted. "But I'll take your word for it."

Professor Rogers seemed to know what he was talking about, there.

"I'm Manfred, I'm a sophomore, and I had lessons when I was like eight so I can swim okay enough to not drown," he said with a shrug.

"That's definitely a good spot to start," Steve said with a tiny smile. "We'll see if you can't remember some of the old lessons today."

"I'm Khadgar, I'm going to be a senior, and I don't have much experience with swimming, or athletics in general. I'm trying to work on that this summer though," he explained.

Today's laps are swimming instead of running, but don't get used to it. Kick drills, then arm drills, then laps of freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke!

Oh, you lucky kids.

Mysteriously, Theron was a much better swimmer today than he'd been yesterday.

Mysteriously.

Astrid didn't mind the drills. They gave her something to focus on, she liked being told what to do, and no one was questioning her for going to a class to do what was expected of her and actually doing it.

Her performance might have faltered a little bit and she may have struggled with the more demanding drills, but it had more to do with the fact that she had nearly no athleticism or stamina than anything else.

Oh yeah, this was easy. Jason had no trouble with any of it-

Until his bad knee gave out mid breaststroke-kick, that is. Still, he was stubborn and was going to push through and finish. Just with a dolphin-kick instead, now.

Oh, wow. Okay. Norman hadn't been swimming in too long, and it wasn't like he could even ride a bike around the island, given all the stairs. He was fortunate that he could float just fine, because his legs were seriously feeling like noodles about halfway through.

Manfred kind of sucked at the backstroke but he was passable at everything, so whatever.

At least they didn't have to do butterfly.

It's what they are here for!

Is it naptime yet?

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