by SALSAlys » Mon Nov 25, 2002 7:36 pm
(The teacher who took the yo-yo was Mrs. Slavan...)
Mr. Thatcher smiled broadly at the students, not attempting to gather any attention. He lowered his goggles and began puttering about with the various liquids and powders up front.
Then, with a sudden flare of blue light, a plume of smoke shot towards the ceiling, and a faint hissing, sizzling noise could be heard. Inside a large beaker, a turquoise liquid bubbled heatedly as the last of the steam rose off of it. The noise cut through the nervous chatter in the room like a knife through butter, and left silence in its wake.
* * *
Mr. King looked about pugnaciously, then scratched his chin. "Welcome to class!" he boomed, voice thick and rolling. "This year should be interesting, and none of your heads should be full of mush by the end of it..."
He launched into a long lecture, gaze flitting about the room and offering no escape as he began speaking of his life and the way it had shaped him into the strong, capable man he was this day, yessiree.
Nan'tulla groaned slightly, and hid a yawn.
* * *
Mrs. Wu looked over her students, standing near the front of the room, silent but giving an aura of respect.
"Hello. I am your teacher, Mrs. Wu, and for today we'll be passing out papers, showing required materials... you'll also need to be organizing notebooks, and the notebooks will be graded on how neat they are and if you keep the papers in order. This first day is going to be very slow, so please bear with me."
With that, she began passing out several sheets of paper, and giving a quiet tour of the classroom, indicating where books were kept, extra pencils, a bin for collecting papers, a bin for turning in papers...
Kali shrugged, passing down some more of the papers, slightly bored.