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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the not-so-great weather earlier in the week, the weather today looked nice and... well, decent for the end of December, and while the rest of town might still have signs of last week's snow, there were no traces left outside the school. (It just meant one less uncomfortable question for the big siblings to deal with, you're welcome.)

The buffet table was ready, set as far as possible from the glittered-out blue and gold tables and chairs. The winter bonfire was crackling for warmth and food-toasting opportunities. The lists of siblings and roommates had been double-checked. It looked like everything was ready for a picnic!

[OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

She whistled between her teeth. "Yeah? I can see where that'd be a problem working with more than revolvers. I didn't even know there were places people could come from that didn't have electricity. Never been on a nexus thing like this before."

She made a note and filed it away because that might be pertinent if she got a student who didn't know what the light switches were or something.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[special_rabbit]

"There's...definitely a learning curve, for some of us," Amaya grinned faintly. "But we all manage to make it work, somehow. There's actually been kind of an influx of backwater pre-industrialites like myself lately, which definitely helps, but it takes all types, 'round here. Gotta admit, though, I'm going to blow some minds right out of some skulls if I manage to make my way back to Daventry, I can tell you that much!"

She sounded far too delighted by the idea, really.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

She laughed a little. "Right on. That's the way to look at it."

She would die. Absolutely die. If she were ever stuck in a pre-industrial-age place. This version of Earth was antique enough that she wanted to go around calling things 'quaint', a word she'd never before used in her life.

A world without instant-brew coffee pots would have her screaming within a day. She could appreciate how it must feel coming the other direction.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[special_rabbit]

"But, well," said Amaya with a faint grin, "I think that's enough about that. My job here's just to make sure you're in a good place for everything you need for teaching your class and to make sure the island doesn't freak you out too much, but I've got a feeling you might be fairly set on both accounts."

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"'Preciate it," Jack said as politely as she ever said anything, "You're not wrong. It takes a lot to freak me out."

Not that the island wasn't going to try.

"If anything can do it, it'll be a classroom full of teenagers asking 'why why why' all the time," she drawled.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[special_rabbit]

Amaya had to chuckle a little at that. "They're good kids," she said, "most of them, with their heads on straight. Even the worrisome ones seem to figure it all out well enough."

The stuff she'd seen Beaker get into in her classes should be traumatizing, really, but even he managed to figure out by the end of it not to use certain equipment and how to wind up only glued to some things instead of everything, which was no small amount of pride for her.

"And, at least in my classes, the questions were pretty few and far between, but, then again, my classes tend to focus more on just doing."

And usually involved a very detailed explanation and demonstration that didn't leave a whole lot of missing pieces, really, but that was only because she didn't want missing pieces in lectures leading to missing pieces in students.

Re: Meet Your Teachers! [Spring 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

"We won't get around to 'doing' in my class for a few weeks," Jack said with a lazy shrug, "I figure most of 'em won't even know what the laws of this country or even the state are, so we'll start giving 'em the basics."

Also an education on how the laws here were incredibly backward.

"Kids here can't be worse than a room full of adolescent biotics who think they're invincible because they blow up the toaster when they get upset."