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Rohan ([info]_rohan_) wrote in [info]compass_network,
@ 2018-04-11 09:51:00

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Entry tags:!open, miguel o'hara, ~marta shearing, ~rohan

All aboard the teacher train!

I have a few skills I would be happy to share, although I wonder with this new ship we're on and the sheer amount of children we have if we should not consider a long-term education solution? Where I'm from I was part of a group that instructed in swimming for any age. We regularly met twice a week to practice. I know a tail fin isn't the same as legs but I was surely the best instructor there!

Anyway, what do we all think about preparing a school? The kids are pretty young now but they won't be for long, I hope. Do we share in teaching? Does anyone here come from a teaching background that would be there all day? I don't know really how to start that kind of thing but I'm glad to help.

Cris says he'd like to help, too. And if you need him he's at his apartment. Moping. Poor guy.

Anyway, anyway...For now I'm glad to offer swim lessons, instrument lessons, and if you're actually a nerd like me I will happily host tabletop gaming. All of my fantastic skills are great for all ages.

;)


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[info]thomashammond
2018-04-11 02:06 pm UTC (link)
A lot of the kids from the future have told me that I was their piano teacher. So some form of school got set up back on the island.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-11 02:52 pm UTC (link)
You were and there was. Mine won't need it for a few years yet but better to get things figured out sooner rather than later.

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[info]_rohan_
2018-04-11 03:22 pm UTC (link)
Hey! That's awesome! Maybe we can have music classes! I'm best at woodwinds and some guitar. I never learned piano.

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[info]maryellenw
2018-04-11 06:56 pm UTC (link)
I could help with reading and writing. I used to do it a little bit on the island before I got sent back to the past.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-04-11 10:00 pm UTC (link)
I've taught before, when I was at college. I can teach biological sciences, and specialized in genetics. If required, I can cover chemistry as well.

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[info]not_june_monroe
2018-04-11 10:02 pm UTC (link)
I want to talk to you.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-04-11 10:03 pm UTC (link)
Okay? I haven't done anything, have I?

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[info]not_june_monroe
2018-04-11 10:05 pm UTC (link)
What? Oh, no. I mean, you're a geneticist. You're from the future, aren't you?

I'm Dr. Marta Cross. I'm a Biochemist, with post-doctoral fellowships in Virology and Genetics. I want to talk to you because I want to find out what's happened in the future. What we're capable of.

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[info]miguel_ohara
2018-04-11 10:09 pm UTC (link)
Oh! Sure, that's more than fine! I'm Dr. Miguel O'Hara, and yeah, I'm from the future. 2099.

My labspace is here [directions from the food court], and I share it with Dr. Sarah Sully. I don't think she'd mind if you came round for a visit.

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[info]not_june_monroe
2018-04-11 10:12 pm UTC (link)
I think we're going to have a surplus of science teachers, Rohan.

I can cover biology and chemistry as well, if needed. Or basic beginner's science.

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[info]_toruk_makto_
2018-04-11 10:52 pm UTC (link)
I don't need school!

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-12 05:58 pm UTC (link)
If you're still this young a few weeks from now school is definitely on the table.

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[info]_toruk_makto_
2018-04-12 06:02 pm UTC (link)
I won't be. I'll be a couple weeks older.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-12 06:19 pm UTC (link)
Let me rephrase: if you're still school age a few weeks from now we'll be discussing an education plan for you.

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[info]_toruk_makto_
2018-04-12 06:42 pm UTC (link)
School's boring.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-12 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Regular school kinda is, yeah. I won't lie, I struggled with it too when I was your age. But there aren't any other kids your age around right now so it'd mostly be one on one.

Hopefully you'll be blue again be

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[info]_toruk_makto_
2018-04-12 06:56 pm UTC (link)
It's still gonna be boring.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-12 07:01 pm UTC (link)
If it comes to that we'll find a way to make it interesting, buddy. My word on it.

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[info]_toruk_makto_
2018-04-12 07:04 pm UTC (link)
How're you gonna do that?

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-12 07:19 pm UTC (link)
All the geniuses here on the station? They're bound to figure out how to make learning about stuff interesting. I know I always did better on more hands on stuff than classroom instruction, but sometimes you have to endure that so you can understand the why behind the interesting stuff.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-12 01:48 am UTC (link)
I don't know if anyone will be interested, but I taught my daughters how to be shieldmaidens, and how to defend our village. Katherine seemed to take to it well.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-12 05:48 pm UTC (link)
You'd be open to teaching boys the art of the sword as well as girls? I don't know that there's a practical need to teach swordfighting but as a form of PT it could be handy.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-13 02:28 am UTC (link)
PT? And sword fighting is always practical, guns can miss, but if you're close with a sword, or a small blade, and a shield, usually you don't miss. Also depending on the creature, bullets may be useless.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 02:38 am UTC (link)
Physical training. Exercise.

My experience with swords is limited to enemy officers using them in charges. They usually died before they got within range to use them.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-13 02:58 am UTC (link)
Oh. Well, it is that, especially with real swords, properly weighted swords.

That's because they didn't know how to use them properly. The moment guns started to be used, knowledge of everything else before it slipped right out of their minds.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 03:04 am UTC (link)
Right.

Eh, the Japanese prided themselves on the Samurai traditions. A sword isn't going to do you any good if you've got an entire infantry battalion shooting at you and your people, especially with heavy machine guns.

But still, even just the exercise and mental discipline would come in handy if nothing else.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-13 03:26 am UTC (link)
You're right, just a sword won't do you any good. But I was in the wars. I still used my sword and shield over something that could jam, and bow up in your face. And I was glancing arrows off "just a sword" before I became vampire.

You're not wrong.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 03:34 am UTC (link)
Our rifles meant the difference between life and death, we took better care of them than we did ourselves.

There were a few times the k-bar knife and bayonet came in handy on the 'Canal, I can't deny. Not so much afterwards, but that first campaign was the worst.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-13 04:15 am UTC (link)
Yes, I'll try to forget men scrambling over the dead for just one more bullet, and all the mud in the foxholes. Not to mention the added humiliation of having to dress like a man because 'women were too soft for war'.

I was at Normandy, to name a few places. But all were about as far from the 'Canal as one could get and stay in that part of the world.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 01:15 pm UTC (link)
I don't mean to get into a dick measuring contest, especially since neither of us have them at the moment. It was just the closest we ever came to being destroyed or starved during my time in the war.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-14 01:46 am UTC (link)
Hah. Speak for yourself, I always have an extra handy.

I know Guadalcanal was hell. So was Iwo. I just had the luck of the draw not to go to either place.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-14 01:56 am UTC (link)
Really?

Yeah, I'm glad I didn't have to go to Tarawa, Iwo or Okinawa. Pelielu was in many ways worse than Guadalcanal, but we never had to worry about not having enough supplies.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-14 03:08 am UTC (link)
Yes, the Chinese were genius in creating that sort of thing.

You were lucky. Being a vampire I didn't either, I just had to avoid the sun. But the Nazis were despicable fuckers.

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[info]_viking
2018-04-13 03:20 am UTC (link)
I wouldn't mind picking it up. It sounds like a fun way to get some exercise and learn a new skill at the same time.

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-13 03:45 am UTC (link)
Alright, I'll have some wooden swords ready, come to the Club whenever you want.

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[info]daddyissues_
2018-04-14 08:43 am UTC (link)
Yes, she is enjoying it very much.

Now that Thor is back would you maybe like to join us at sparring occasionally?

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[info]brynhild_ingouf
2018-04-14 10:14 am UTC (link)
Oh definitely. I would like to work up a...nonexistant sweat.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 01:23 pm UTC (link)
I don't know how useful my skill set will be here on the station but I'll be happy to do what I can to help out.

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[info]callme_roxy
2018-04-13 03:47 pm UTC (link)
I feel the same. I'd like to offer self defense to the pile. I could also teach some history, although does that apply to space? I only know Earth's history pre-2017 and it is a history that does not include superheroes or aliens from space.

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 04:20 pm UTC (link)
I could help with both of those.

And all those times I snuck off to spend time in the woods with uncle Jake instead of going to school gives me a halfway decent understanding of plants and animals, though I admit it isn't anywhere near comprehensive I'm not dad or Tommy. So if we wanted to do 'field trips' up to the parks and ag domes for those subjects I could help with that.

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[info]callme_roxy
2018-04-13 04:22 pm UTC (link)
I think that sounds like a great idea!

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[info]jrsully
2018-04-13 04:37 pm UTC (link)
Thanks Roxy!

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[info]callme_roxy
2018-04-13 05:44 pm UTC (link)
Of course.

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