[School]: Classes Have Now Begun

[ten_fwd_npcs]

Classes for adults and children are now being held every day on Deck 14. The weekly schedule for September's syllabus is posted below. [Classes are OTA unless otherwise specified.]



[example of a youth class]

Itinerary/Subjects
Archery, Deck 11, Holodeck #3
Ballet, Room #0916 *
Catching up to the 24th Century, Classroom #1
Creative Writing, Classroom #3
Earth History and Archaeology, Classroom #4
Earth Languages, Room #0914 *
English & Poetry (Youth), Classroom #3
English & Poetry (Adult), Classroom #3
Federation Primer, Classroom #1
Geology, Classroom #5
Kenpo, Room #0918
Krav Maga, Room #0918 *
Melee Combat Basics, Room #0918
Mixed Martial Arts, Room #0918
Multiverse Primer, Classroom #1
Physical Education (Youth), Room #0918
Physical Education (Adult), Room #0918
Ranged Combat Basics, Room #0918
Scuba Diving, Deck 11, Holodeck #3
Self Defence, Room #0918
Spoken Languages (Klingon & Vulcan), Classroom #6
Surviving the Wilderness, Classroom #7
Warp Theory & Starship Tech, Classroom #10
Working with Chakra, Classroom #7
Xenoanthropology, Classroom #8
Advanced Xenolinguistics, Classroom #6

* [ One-on-one tutoring is available by request in ballet, krav maga, cooking, and a range of Earth languages. For a complete listing, see the OOC Post. You can request tutoring by replying to the comment offering the relevant subject in that post. ]


Class Schedule

Archery (Deck 11, Holodeck #3)
Sundays at 1500
Instructor: Thea Queen
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair

Ballet (Room #0916)
By Arrangement
Instructor: Ziva David
Students: Zoey Westen

Catching up to the 24th Century (Classroom #1)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1300
Instructor: Lt. Hugh Cambridge
Students: Alex Rogan, Annie Cresta, Carson Beckett, Charles Tucker III, DJ, Finnick Odair, H. G. Wells, Jonas Quinn, Luna Lovegood, Natasha Romanoff, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Thea Queen, Will Arrowsmith, Zoey Westen

Creative Writing (Classroom #3)
Fridays, 1500
Instructor: H.G. Wells
Students: Finnick Odair

Earth History & Archaeology (Classroom #4)
Fridays, 1100
Instructor: Jonas Quinn
Students: Alec Troven, Luna Lovegood, Kevin Ford

Earth Languages (French/Italian) (Room #0914)
By Arrangement
Instructor: H.G. Wells/Ziva David
Students: Luna Lovegood

English & Poetry (Youth) (Classroom #3)
Mon-Fri, 0900
Instructor: Miss Kate Barlow
Students: Alec Troven, Kevin Ford

English & Poetry (Adult) (Classroom #3)
Wednesdays and Fridays, 1900
Instructor: Miss Kate Barlow
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair, DJ, Dylan Hunt

Federation Primer (Classroom #1)
Saturdays, 1100
Instructor: Lt. Cmdr. Terzen T'Karr
Students: Alex Rogan, Annie Cresta, Booker DeWitt, Charles Tucker III, Emma Frost, H. G. Wells, Lorna Dane, Luna Lovegood, Natasha Romanoff, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Steve McGarrett, Thea Queen, Will Arrowsmith

Geology (Classroom #5)
Fridays, 1300
Instructor: Lorna Dane
Students: Annie Cresta, Finnick Odair, Jonas Quinn, Luna Lovegood

Kenpo (Room #0918)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1600
Instructor: H.G. Wells
Students:

Krav Maga (Room #0918)
By Arrangement
Instructor: Ziva David
Students: Zoey Westen

Melee Combat Basics (Room #0918)
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1500
Instructor: Trever McCallum
Substitute: Sam Bowe
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair

Mixed Martial Arts (Room #0918)
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 0800
Open sparring Sundays from 0800
Instructor: Mack Gerhardt and Sam Bowe
Students: Alex Rogan, Dylan Hunt, Ezri Dax, Finnick Odair, Natasha Romanoff, Thea Queen, Trever McCallum, Zoey Westen

Multiverse Primer (Classroom #1)
Third Monday of the Month, 1900
Instructor: Fatima Merali
Students: Grainne (also for new arrivals)

Physical Education (Youth) (Room #0918)
Tuesdays, 1000
Instructor: Emma Frost
Students:

Physical Education (Adult) (Room #0918)
Fridays, 1000
Instructor: Emma Frost
Students: Annie Cresta, DJ

Ranged Combat Basics (Room #0918)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1700
Instructor: Kale McCallum
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair

Scuba Diving (Deck 11, Holodeck #3)
Tuesdays and Fridays, 1500
Instructor: Steve McGarrett
Students: Finnick Odair

Self Defence (Room #0918)
Tuesdays and Fridays, 1000
Instructor: Steve McGarrett
Students: Alex Rogan, DJ, Jonas Quinn, Mary McGarrett

Spoken Languages (Klingon & Vulcan) (Classroom #6)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1300
Instructor: Lt. Hugh Cambridge
Students: Alex Rogan, H. G. Wells, Jonas Quinn, Kale McCallum, Natasha Romanoff, Trever McCallum, Steve McGarrett, Zoey Westen

Surviving the Wilderness (Classroom #7)
Saturdays, 1300
Instructor: Bob Fraser
Substitute: Sam Bowe
Students: Alex Rogan, Finnick Odair, Jonas Quinn

Warp Theory & Starship Tech (Classroom #10)
Saturdays, 1400
Instructor: Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Substitute: Lt. Cmdr. Terzen T'Karr
Students: Alex Rogan, Charles Tucker III, Fatima Merali, H. G. Wells, Kale McCallum, Jack Harkness, Jim Kirk, Lorna Dane, Natasha Romanoff, Steve McGarrett, Tony Stark, Will Arrowsmith

Working with Chakra (Classroom #7)
Saturdays, 1000
Instructors: Minoru
Students:

Xenoanthropology (Classroom #8)
Saturdays, 1000
Instructors: Lt. Hugh Cambridge
Students: Alex Rogan, Carson Beckett, Jonas Quinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tony Stark

Advanced Xenolinguistics (Classroom #6)
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, 1900
Instructors: Lt. Cmdr. Terzen T'Karr
Students: Jonas Quinn


Staff
Bob Fraser (Surviving the Wilderness)
Emma Frost (Physical Education (Youth), Physical Education (Adult), Self-Defence (Substitute))
Fatima Merali (Multiverse Primer)
Geordi La Forge, Lt. Cmdr. (Warp Theory & Starship Tech)
H.G. Wells (Creative Writing, Earth Languages (French), Kenpo)
Hugh Cambridge, Lt. (Catching up to the 24th Century, Spoken Languages (Klingon & Vulcan), Xenoanthropology)
Jonas Quinn (Earth History & Archaeology)
Kale McCallum (Ranged Combat Basics)
Kate Barlow (English & Poetry (Youth), English & Poetry (Adult))
Lorna Dane (Geology)
Mack Gerhardt (Mixed Martial Arts)
Minoru (Working With Chakra)
Sam Bowe (Melee Combat Basics (Substitute), Mixed Martial Arts, Surviving the Wilderness (Substitute))
Steve McGarrett (Scuba Diving, Self-Defence)
Terzen T'Karr, Lt. Cmdr. (Federation Primer, Warp Theory & Starship Tech (Substitute), Advanced Xenolinguistics)
Thea Queen (Archery)
Trever McCallum (Melee Combat Basics)
Ziva David (Ballet, Earth Languages (Italian), Krav Maga)


[ooc: Please note, the School is currently a once-a-month post; all times listed are for IC purposes. Teachers will post in with a comment for their class, and students can then tag in to thread at any stage for classes held at any point in the month.

To sign up to teach, or to add your character as a regular student of a class, see the OOC post here. The next School post will be on October 26th.]

Comments

[dust_of_life]

She shook her head. "Never mind," she said. "An eccentricity unique to my world, I guess."

It had been fucking fantastic going to middle school in 2001. Her name had already singled her out as the 'weird kid.' Add to that the greater context of a world hating all things Middle Eastern? Plus thirteen-year-olds?

Bad combination. Toxic combination.

"Which is, I guess, a good place to begin. Why don't you tell me a little bit about your homeworld?"

[1st_starfighter]

Alex nodded slowly, and swallowed. "Okay. That would suck." He had been the outcast and nothing like what she might have gone through for that, but he had just enough empathy to imagine how bad it could be and he winced.

"Well, ah, I don't know a lot. I was born on Earth, and raised in a trailer park in the back side of California and became by mother's right hand man, fixing anything and everything that broke down. I never left the place until 1984. Then, well, I was recruited by aliens to go save the galaxy against other aliens."

He smiled sheepishly.

[dust_of_life]

Fatima didn't even have to try to look composed. The idea of aliens were second nature at this point.

"Well," she said, "I guess our worlds have some things in common. I mean, I was born on Earth and in California too. In 1989, for the record. But, see, my version of Earth? Not so much with aliens. We have other things though, that you might not. Like...werewolves."

And she paused to gauge his reaction.

[1st_starfighter]

"Yeah? Cool!" He nodded. "Werewolves? Wow." he grinned at her. "I met an alien race who we nicknamed werewolves, but I've never met the actual real life human type." His eyes were wide with wonder.

"What are they like?"

[dust_of_life]

His enthusiasm reminded her, in a strange way, of Auntie Diana. Auntie Diana always had the ability to see things as a new opportunity or adventure. She also saw the best in people.

Which was why she was probably dead.

Fatima let out a soft sigh. "Horrifying," she replied neutrally. "They can dismantle a humanoid body in about three seconds. With three swipes." She demonstrate the first, across the shoulders. "Here." She did the second, up and down through the navel. "Here." And the third cut a diagonal from shoulder to hip. "And here."

[1st_starfighter]

Alex winced, then nodded slowly. "Okay, so, not good at all."

He nodded again, swallowing. "In your experience, was there any way to tell if someone was werewolf before they, ah, wolfed out?"

He paused, then went on with a second question, confused. "Also, do they actually become wolves?"

[dust_of_life]

"Uh, there are certain supernatural ways to detect Garou," she said. "But I don't think you need to worry about that here. I've spent two years in the multiverse and haven't seen any. Besides, just because a person can hurt you, doesn't mean they well. Especially when we're all kind of in the same boat. No pun intended."

Also, Fatima didn't actually know said methods.

"Really, the biggest problem you're going to face in terms of unique multiverse problems involve time."

[1st_starfighter]

Alex nodded. "Makes sense. Most people probably are just the same, inside, despite differences."

He blinked at this. "How so?"

[dust_of_life]

Best to let that sunny sentiment about people being the same pass. Again, she thought of Auntie Diana and could only grimace internally about it.

As for the rest, she turned to her diagram on the board. "Well, let me start by introducing you to Dean." She gestured to the first Dean in line. "I met this young man about a week or two into my arrival in the multiverse. We hit things off pretty well. Had a lot in common. We could talk to each other in the same language. But, eventually, as often happens in the multiverse, he returned home."

She frowned a moment before adding, "Think of it like Q sending someone back where they came from."

[1st_starfighter]

Alex listened, watching her as she explained.

"Okay. That kind of thing happens too often here."

[dust_of_life]

"Exactly," she said, pleased that he seemed to be following along.

It would make the next part a little easier.

"So, Dean went away. Then, a few months later, I saw a man with the exact same face." She pointed to the second stick figure.

The asshole.

[1st_starfighter]

"That sounds like it is both confusing, and like that time things didn't go well." Alex felt himself tense a little, wondering how bad it had been.

[dust_of_life]

"You could say that," Fatima replied dryly.

There didn't seem to be much of a need to get into the nitty gritty details of what fell out between her and Dean. That wasn't what this was about. The 'asshole' would suffice.

"A few months after I met this Dean--I call him Dean 2.0--I next encountered this one." She pointed to the third stick figure.

[1st_starfighter]

"So, wait, one came in, then left, then a second one came in, then left, and then a third one came in as well?" He whistled.

"That seems like an awful lot of Deans."

[dust_of_life]

"Actually, it gets more complicated than that," Fatima admitted, looking a little proud to have something new to offer this guy. Her other students, as it turned out, knew more about the multiverse than she did.

Not a great thing for someone with an ego as fragile as hers.

But that was for later sulking.

"Dean 2.0 and Dean 3.0 actually overlapped in their stay. And when Dean 3.0 left and Dean 4.0 arrived, Dean 2.0 was still there." She made sure to point to each of the appropriate stick figures, to make it clear as possible. "The multiverse isn't quite as linear as we are."

[1st_starfighter]

"Oh?" He cocked his head to the side, then stared as she explained things, mouth open.

"Ah. Well, that's..." He shook his head.

"Sounds very confusing to everyone."

[dust_of_life]

She let out a rough, dry laugh. "You have no idea," she muttered. After awhile, she'd started being able to pick up on tiny eccentricities which differed for each of the Deans. But it was still always a little touch-and-go. Especially considering the fact that one of the Deans was constantly trying to hurt her.

"I haven't seen any sort of doubling here yet," she added. "But I've only been on this Hilton a few months."

[1st_starfighter]

Alex nodded, then laughed, shaking his head. "I totally think I am lucky o not have been through any of this. It sounds like you're pretty damn bad-ass to deal with all of this mess."

Alex nodded. "I've seen a few lookalikes, but they turned out to not be the same people."

[dust_of_life]

Fatima enjoyed being considered a badass. It was always one of the things she was going for. Even if she wasn't intentionally going for it.

All part of that need to be treated like an adult.

She smiled slightly, trying not to puff up like a peacock too much. "And it sounds like you're taking this whole thing with remarkable stride."

[1st_starfighter]

"Thanks!" He perked up. Alex, too, liked being thought of as someone who could deal with things. He grinned.

"Well, I'm starting to think my life is pretty much going to be one surprise after another, surrounded by stretches of absolute boredom." He chuckled. "Or sometimes absolute terror. It changes from week to week."

[dust_of_life]

"I can relate," Fatima said, giving him a wry smile. That had been, nearly word for word, exactly how she described Zelien. Both there and after the fact.

She shrugged. "Is there anything else I can answer for you? This isn't exactly a formal class here. More just a primer."

Hence the name.

[1st_starfighter]

Alex smiled back and nodded. "It feels weird to be here, where so much time is quiet. But then, now I've got classes at least, and that could help."

He thought for a minute. "Have you cross through many places where people come from different universes?"

[dust_of_life]

Fatima shook her head. "No. This is only the second multiverse I've ever seen. By far the superior one, for the record. At least, so far."

With an irritable sigh, she had to add, "There are a lot of people around here with more experience, if you need the advanced stuff."

A painful admission.

[1st_starfighter]

"Okay." He smiled to her.

"Nah. I was just curious about your experiences. Half the fun of taking classes is to learn from people who have been places I haven't. I was a Starfighter for a long time, and one thing i learned was to try to learn as much as I could. That way, you have a better chance of being prepared for new things." Alex nodded firmly.

[dust_of_life]

Well, she could appreciate the attitude. She'd been equally gung-ho on more than one occasion, especially in her first few weeks under the watchful eye of COMPASS.

In some ways, though, she'd become as bitter and as blase as she used to pretend to be, when she was just trying to earn the rest of others. It was a weird and twisty irony that she couldn't quite reconcile.

And now wasn't the time to try.

"A big suggestion I have would be to bone up on things like mythology and supernatural fiction," she said. "When you're in the multiverse, you learn that a lot more of those things are true and exist than you ever imagined."