Across the World

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What a wonderful day as he popped the collar down after he finished the tie. He looked at himself in the mirror and smiled,Well don't I look smashing," he laughed a little knowing if his kids would hear him they call him "weird" and " old-school". His (attire) was quite plain with a simple grey slacks and vest,with a white long sleeve shirt, and tie. There was nothing there that didn't say he wasn't a teacher. He loved his sweatpants, but to teach in a class room it wasn't the place. He pulled his vest on and grabbed his jacket and made sure it was zipped up. It was a little chill, but not as cold as he thought it could be. He pulled his leather gloves out and grabbed his black leather bag that held all his paper work and headed out the door.


It didn't take him long to cross the school yard as he bounded up the stairs to the stairs to school house. He opened the door for several students before walking himself inside. He went around the hallway until he found his classroom and smiled as he opened the door. Most people liked the "new" car smell, but for him it was opening the "new" classroom smell. Yes, half the time it smelled of stinky kids, but that was okay to him. He set his black bag on his desk and began to shuck his gloves off stuffing them into his pocket and taking his jacket off and putting it on the back of his chair. He looked among the classroom with the empty chairs and knew before long they would fill.

Wade wrote his name on the chalk board and went to the front of his desk and began to walk the students fill into the classroom. He said his " Good Morning, to each student. Once he thought most of the students were in his class he smiled and clapped his hands for their attention," Morning class, I'm Mr. Harris," he knew his name was on the board, but it didn't hurt to introduce himself to the class. Today, I want you each to give me ONE world event that has happened. he spoke in a clear tongue so each of his students could hear him.It can be in the past or even the present, just give me one. He waited for his students to think about before starting again,Now lets go around the room, starting with the front row.

Amelia DeFoe
@running9
Brody O'Callaghan
Cortney Smit
Danielle Green
Elizabeth Toman
Fionn Paquet
@running5
@jacobturcotte
@neighneigh
Othello Buskirk
@ronan
Rachel Deacon
@avery

[Cortney Smit]

Cortney brushed down her cheer uniform and tightened her ponytail as she walked into the classroom for world history. She was still trying to work out why she had chosen this class over the likes of geography, but she guessed she was stuck with it now.

She smiled and returned the teacher's greeting as she walked to her table in the middle of the room, she sat down and pulled out the binder she needed for the class, along with her pencil case and sat as she waited for the class to start, doodling on the page in front of her. Her eyes narrowed as a slip of a girl sat in the seat in front of her, this game was getting very old.

As the man began the lesson her eyebrows arched at the question. She wasn't exactly at the front of the room, but she wouldn't let the Halfling in front of her speak before she did. "President Obama being elected into Office was a pretty big world event." She said, raising her eyebrows daring the teacher to contradict her. After all, the first non-Caucasian president to be elected had hit world headlines and had also enraged a number of people because many though he was from Iraq and they didn't want him representing the United States.

[Othello Buskirk]

Othello rubbed his temples as he walked down the hall. He was trialling a new series of medication, and while they weren't making him as nauseated as the last lot, but the pounding headache that came with them made him wonder if the last lot were better, as now Tylenol made him throw up, so he had to decide whether he wanted the headache or to throw up and still have a headache.

Finding his seat in the class room, he took out the notebook he needed and his pens and sat silently as he waited for class to start. He knew that he probably looked as ill as he felt, and in some ways it helped him as other people avoided sitting any where near him, which meant less likely chance of him catching any winter bugs off anyone directly, he just had to worry about viruses floating through the air.

When the teacher addressed the class and got things started, he opened his mouth to answer - as he was sitting at the front of the room - but snapped it closed as the head cheerleader spoke first. Once it seemed that she was finished, he took his turn. "The first man on the moon." He shrugged. "Though there's still the notion that it was faked."

[Elizabeth Toman]

Libby walked down the hallway, glaring at the way that people moved seamlessly out of the way of the cheerleaders and would step in her way without a second glance. "Move!" She growled as she shoved a girl out of the way. Her and Jeanne-Claire needed to have another discussion, they needed to shake up the status quo of this damned academy, and they needed to do it now, so that when everyone came back in the new year, they really knew who ruled this school.

Walking into the classroom, she gave the teacher a simple nod as she gave him a dismissive wave and headed to the table right in front of the cheerleader. She beamed when the teacher addressed the class, her seat would mean that she would get to speak before Cortney. However, the cheerleader spoke before anyone else.

Once the boy at the front of the room spoke, she gave a bright smile. "The earthquake that almost flattened Christchurch, in New Zealand back in twenty-eleven made pretty big news." Her and her tutor followed the news closely after the quake. She had been tempted to say the Olympics, as that always made big news with the scandals that happened, but that would have been an answer the others would have expected from her.

[Fionn Paquet]

Finn strode down the hall, his bomber jacket hanging over one shoulder, his school bag on the other, the long-sleeved shirt he was wearing seemed almost moulded to him and the black jeans were the same. He gave a smirk to a girl who was looking him up and down, but he didn't have time for a girlfriend, so he didn't even slow his stride as he walked into the classroom where he was due.

Looking around the room, he returned the teacher's greeting and his smirk returned when he saw Libby sitting in front of Cortney, it was like English lit all over again. With a sigh, he walked over and threw his bag down onto the ground behind Othello.

When the class started, he listened to the teacher and then the students who spoke before him, he wasn't at all surprised that Cort jumped the gun in answering, after all, the Queen ruled her court with and iron fist and woe to anyone who tried to cross her. "War." He spoke up. He knew his answer was vague, but it was an event that had plagued the entirety of the world since the dawn of time. One man had always declared war over another, and at times for nothing more than the privilege for the use of a piece of water.

[Amelia DeFoe]

Amy left her earlier class, ready to head to the World History class, which finally had a proper teacher, as she'd heard... Well, they would see how it went. She found the classroom without issue, finding a seat, however... She glanced at the people already in the classroom, but she didn't really want to sit with Cortney, who was in her natural place in the middle of the room, and she didn't know how she stood with Finn.

So, to the back it was. Making her way along the wall, she slipped into the seat in the back, hoping that the teacher wouldn't take too much notice of her. However, there was no chance of that with the question that he posed them, and she thought as the others talked, finally settling on one that none of the others had mentioned yet. As it finally came her turn, she spoke, her voice quiet, although she wasn't quite whispering, "The Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappearing." That had captivated the entire world, it could be considered a world event, right? At least, to her it seemed like it would fit, because she knew it had been in the news all over the world.

[Rachel Deacon]

Rachel taken a seat at the back of the class as as her preference, Ghost occupying his usual space underneath her seat. Her laptop was out and sitting on the otherwise empty desk, ready to record any notes she wanted to make. The sound of someone else arriving and sitting at the back of the classroom stirred a little interest in the girl, but not particularly positive interest. In fact, she just hunched her shoulders a little bit and ducked her head.

It was a relief to hear that the class teacher had a loud, clear voice. It always made her classes so much easier when she wasn't straining to hear what was happening. She had had teachers who mumbled to their classes despite knowing that she was recording the lecture. The recordings she ended up with from those classes were almost useless. The fact that this didn't seem to be the case for the world history class was definitely a bonus.

As he went around the class, asking them to give him one event that had happened in the world, either past or present, she kept her mouth firmly shut, afraid to say anything. With a bit of luck, he would just pass straight over her and she wouldn't have to say a word.

[Danielle Green]

History, not so enticing but it would have to do for now. Moving along with the rest of the flow of students, soon the doorway to the class appeared. Making sure she didn't cut anyone off trying to move across the hallway Danny got there. She took a seat and waited for class to begin. There were quite a few people that were already in the class and she hoped it wouldn't get much bigger, though she could only hope. There were many people who attended the academy and World History seemed like a pretty easy subject, so she would assume people would try to take that compared to other history options.

Once class started and the majority of everyone was there, Danny listened to Mr. Harris, she quickly racked her brain for a few things that happened that were known world wide. Once a few people had spoken about there world wide event, since no one had picked her first idea, Danielle thought no better time like the present and she spoke up about her's."Nine Eleven." She looked around to see who would go next. A boy who was in a few of her other classes, Jackson, went next.

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With a noticeable frown on his face Jackson made his way to World History. Though he really had no interest in history, he knew that history most of the time repeated itself and so he "needed to be prepared" when it did. He walked into the classroom to see a far amount of students already there. He took a seat as he dropped like a box of rocks onto the chair. He set his backpack down and took a out a pencil and notebook. He always liked to be prepared even though they may not have been taking notes in class there might be some things he would have wanted to write down.

Taking a deep breath as more people filed in and the class started, the teacher started it out with a speaking out loud activity. Thinking about what he had to tell the class he listened to the other students say theirs but his mind was blank it was coming down to his turn and he quickly thought of something. "The Olympics." Though it wasn't something that was morbid it was still known about world wide as many countries participated in it. Sitting back in his seat his job was done for now.

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Just like he thought classes flew by, the next one came and went and now he was on his way to history. Though it wasn't his favorite he could deal with it. Chase found the room and entered there weren't a lot of people and he was glad about that. He took a seat and put out a pen and a notebook and laid them in the corner of his desk. He didn't know the teacher and so he assumed the man was new to the teaching staff.

Chase waited for class to start and he so just sat back in his seat and waited for his other classmates to arrive. Sitting forward once Mr. Harris called class to begin he groaned inwardly about what they had to say. Chase listened to what others had to say and he began thinking. He didn't go first and that right there was a big mistake. The longer he waited for people to go, the less options he would have to say. So right after Jackson went so did he. "Sputnik being launched." He made it short and sweet much like the other students did. Chase sat back in his chair once again and listened to what the rest of the class said.

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School was school no matter where you was you still always had homework or teachers that were bigger snobs than you are. Avery went to each class wanting to skip almost every single one of them just because he could, but that would mean a call to his parents and that is all he wanted was his parents to call him. He pulled the book bag onto his shoulder as it tried to slip down. He walked into the classroom and noticed a couple of students and smiled. There were a couple of girls that caught his attention and noticed a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and sat down beside her,Hello, Avery Harrison" he spoke to the girl in the first row. He raised an eyebrow when he felt the tension between the two girls and sat forward. He wasn't sure if he wanted to be caught in that.

Avery looked at the class and well for the first time he has never sat in the front row, but he wanted to be able to talk to the girl. Now he was stuck in the front for today, but tomorrow he will move back unless the girl beside him that spoke of an earthquake that he didn't even know what happen. He listened to everyone's answers and bit his lower lip.The out-break of Ebola, it was still a current event but he thought since it was a big thing here in the states it would be easy. He sat back in his chair hoping that he wouldn't be asked to answer anymore questions.

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Cole made his way to his world history class, knowing as he looked at his watch that he was cutting it close. While he enjoyed academic pursuits, history was not one of his more enjoyable subjects, and while he wasn't dreading going to this class, he wasn't necessarily looking forward to it, either.

He walked into the classroom wearing well fitting jeans and a striped v-neck t-shirt under a pea coat that only enhanced his lean and well-proportioned body, a silver watch on his wrist and nice leather winter boots on his feet. Seeing that the front row was pretty full as this was a larger class, he took a seat off to the side of the middle of the room, greeting those whom he made eye contact with on his way to his chosen desk regardless of if they returned the gesture or not. He got out his notebook, pen, and bottle of water and waited for the class to begin.

Cole listened to the other students giving their examples of a world event. He noted the tension between the two girls near the front, and chuckled at the example of "war." He wasn't mocking his classmate - it's just that war was so prevalent throughout world history that to simply give the answer "war" was, for some reason, unexpected. "Well, the start of civilization," Cole offered when his turn came about. He took a world history survey class in middle school and remembered how much emphasis was made on how civilization began in the Fertile Crescent. It was one of the few specific things he remembered from that class and nobody else had offered it as a response, so he figured it would be a safe bet for this class.

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Julius nodded in greeting to the teacher, as he headed into the room.  He looked at the other students and headed toward the center of the room, as his favorite place to sit was in the center of the room.  Some the the same girls who he had sat near in English class the other day were sitting there.  He sat down next to the girl in the cheerleader uniform, not thinking much of it. 

Mr. Harris asked everyone to name a world event.  Julius listened the the other students give their answers.  Some people had good answers and others had really bleak ones.  They were all things that he knew somethings about, or had at least vaguely heard of.

When it got to him, he answer "the Ballet d'action movement."  It occurred to him, after he said it, that some people might not know what that was, but it was still an important world event.  At least, it was important to him.  He had often been surprised by how little other people knew about things that he knew a lot about and considered important, but he liked knowing things that other people did not.  If someone did not know something, then let them wonder.

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Grabbing her blue Dakine backpack from besides her desk she stood up and slung it over her shoulder. Walking out the class she said a goodbye to the teacher before going to find her next class which was World History. 

Walking into the History classroom she said hello to the teacher before locating an empty seat at the front of the classroom. Setting her backpack down she opened it and pulled out a pencil case and selected a pen before grabbing the purple notebook that was labeled History. 

Opening the notebook to a clean page she put her pen on the page where it would be easy to grab if she wished to write anything down that she saw important. The teacher introduced himself as Mr. Harris before saying that they were to give him one world event either in the past or present. "The Cold War." She answered when it was her turn to say something. One person said the Olympics was a world event while another said war. While she could see the Olympics being a world event she couldn't see war as one. After all, there were wars being fought everywhere that weren't in the news or any news. Sure, some wars were world events like World War One, WW2, and ,now, probably ISIS.