World History in a Nutshell

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

The classroom is dimly lit and there's a projecter set up to a laptop.

"Good morning," says Daniel, beaming all around. "Today, we're going to be touching on Ancient Egypt. There's packets on your desks with information about mummies and health and --" His face clouded and he frowned slightly. "gods. You can look at all that in your leisure, but first, I'm going to talk to you a bit about my dig in Egypt this summer."

Daniel has a power point presentation and everything which would have been done had the mun not fallen asleep yesterday. It's mostly pictures of sand. And more sand. And yes, you guessed it, sand. Daniel's highly enthusiastic about it, however, as he babbles on quite happily for half the lecture.

"Okay, for the second half, I apologize to those of you who aren't used to computers and also to those who took Egyptian archaeology last year, as you'll have already played a couple of these games. There's a choice of three to play, so have fun and talk to me if you have any questions or need a hand."


Build a pyramid

Make a Mummy

Death in Sakkara


[[ooc: Huge apologies for this being so late up; work and calling schools got in the way this morning and I wasn't at all functional last night to get it up then like I was planning]]

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Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie is trying to write down everything new at once, because she didn't know all those things about the Incas, although the mummification process is old hat, and it's all so interesting, and finally she has to ask, "Dr. Jackson? Do you think it's possible that, maybe, there could be an archaeological site on Fandom Island? Perhaps? Only I heard there used to be pirates here...."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim was trying to figure out who to copy notes off of, his roommate or Evie. He waffled for a while before scootching slightly closer to Evie and trying to stay awake in class.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie looked up and saw Jim, then hesitantly smiled at him. "It's really not that bad, is it?" she whispered.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim smiled back, shaking his head. "No, not really. I guess." His tone was very grudging. At best.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Well, I think it's wonderful, but, it is my area," Evie said diplomatically, in a low voice. "Did you not sleep well last night?"

Re: Daniel's lecture

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Actually, he hadn't. He wasn't about to tell Evie that, though. Or the reason why. He shook his head. "No. I just . . ." He waved at hand at Daniel. "History class is so not my thing."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel looked at Evie thoughtfully. "It's always quite possible," he said. "And you have to remember, that not all archaeological sites are thousands, or even hundreds of years old."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie beamed at him. "Quite true! I suppose something only a couple decades old could qualify, couldn't it? As long as its origins are unknown."

She's trying very hard to sound grown-up, but the pencil-tapping and happy smile aren't helping. "If, if we looked in city hall, perhaps would could find records of something?"

Re: Daniel's lecture

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel nodded and smiled. "That's always a great place to start," he said. "If you'd be interested in that sort of thing."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Oh, definitely! Old records are almost as much fun as new dig sites!" Evie really is this much of a nerd, even if she doesn't know the word for it. "I can go to the Hall of Records if its open and there's anything to find and look up the history. It really wouldn't be any trouble at all."

She's not even trying for extra credit. Sigh.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel laughed. "I'd be interested to see what you manage to "dig up", if you'll excuse the pun," he said.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

Once she saw the nature of today's lecture, she immediately sat near Evie. She wasn't adverse to taking advantage of other people's expertise.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[deanforrester.livejournal.com]

Dean turned around, about halfway through the lecture, having taken sporadic and uncertain notes at best. He mouthed "Help!" at Lyra, a look of mock-horror on his face.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

Lyra grinned at his stricken look. She mouthed back, "Just write 'sand' a lot."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[deanforrester.livejournal.com]

Dean scrawled "SAND!!!!" on a fresh page in his notebook, holding it up for Lyra as discretely as possible.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

Lyra muffled her giggles with her hand, biting her lip to keep from laughing. Getting herself calmed, she pointed over at Evie's notes, nodding knowingly. She scribbled on her notebook for a second before holding up a sign to him that said, "Study group?!"

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Lyra!" Evie whispered, pleased to see her. "How was your weekend?"

Re: Daniel's lecture

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

"Good. This is your specialty, right?" Lyra asked quietly.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Yes, although some of this information is new to me too," Evie said back, keeping her voice down. "The comparison of cultures is fascinating. I suppose similar environments produce similar practices. Although one has to wonder...."

Re: Daniel's lecture

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

"What? One wonders what?" Lyra was interested in the speculation she heard in Evie's voice.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[deanforrester.livejournal.com]

Dean eyed Evie's fervent note-taking with immense relief. Somehow, he wasn't entirely sure his notebook page with "SAND!!!!" printed almost hysterically across it would do him much good come exams. At least now he was pretty sure he could get help from the cute Egyptologist-in-training who conveniently lived next-door.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie waved happily to Dean and held up a piece of notebook paper that said, Pyramids, yay!

Re: Daniel's lecture

[deanforrester.livejournal.com]

He scrawled "YOU + LYRA + ME = STUDY GROUP?!" on a fresh page, holding it up surreptitiously, accompanied by a slightly panicked look.

Re: Daniel's lecture

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie read it, gave him a cheerful look, and wrote back, Certainly! Yours and Lyra's room?

Re: Daniel's lecture

[deanforrester.livejournal.com]

Dean nodded, giving Evie thumbs-up, then smiling and relaxing considerably.