WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START

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WINTER TERM OPENING CEREMONY AND CLASS START
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The snowfall has only intensified as Daybreak moves into the first day of Winter Term classes. A school-wide orientation will be held in the auditorium, followed by an open period where tours will be given to new students by student volunteers. After a noon lunch in the main hall, short introduction classes will be held where the syllabi will be distributed and professors can give a brief overview of what they’ll be covering over the term.

A. ORIENTATION ASSEMBLY

With a new school year comes a fresh address. The orientation assembly is one of the few times that the Headmistress and High Seer, Mila Duchene, speaks to the gathered faculty and students about their purpose and why they’ve been found and gathered here. About how Nightfall looms ever closer, and how together they will be the flames who light the coming darkness.

It is, in the manner of many orientation speeches, fairly long-winded. Those who have been here for more than a year have likely heard this speech before, though it’s slightly more urgent this time. Maybe it’s a good time to get to know the people on either side of you a little better while the Headmistress talks, because you’ll be here for a while. Or maybe you’ve planned ahead, and you have something to entertain you at orientation - much to the shared entertainment or dismay of others in your vicinity, perhaps.

Or you could actually be listening to the speech. It’s up to you.


B. SCHOOL TOUR

For students fresh to the academy, the sprawling nature and architecture of Daybeak Academy can be quite intimidating. Fortunately, helpful student volunteers have been tapped to help escort the new students around and give them a feel for campus. Student volunteers are typically chosen for both their experience on campus and helpful nature. While some scripts are provided, students are encouraged to ad-lib and put their own spin on campus and what they like about it. New students are, of course, encouraged to ask as many questions as they can to make sure they fully understand and familiarize themselves with the campus as quickly as possible.

C. SNACK STATION

During the first three days after the Holiday break, throughout the campus grounds are small stations manned by the kitchen staff and volunteers, the smell of hot chocolate, cider, and frying bread fills the air, stirring the appetite and promising warmth on this cold winter’s day.

Every booth has hot chocolate, some spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, others rich and creamy, but always with an option for marshmallows, peppermint bark or caramel drizzles - with non-alcoholic hot cider for those with an allergy to chocolate. For food options, naturally being France there are crepes of all types and beignets on offer, with jam- or custard-filled berliners, while those looking for a more savory fare will be treated to rissoles - a fried bread stuffed with minced meat or bechamel sauce and cod.

While the drinks are on tap and readily available, it may take a few moments to get the treats out, so might as well make conversation while a fresh batch is made.

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[suddenlybees]

[ It's cold. It's cold cold cold and Kano shoves his hands deep into the pockets of his hoodie- with classes not technically in session right this very moment, he foregoes the uniform and just wears what he wants, although it feels as if he can dress in hundreds of layers and still be cold.

He's not a new student, by any means, but he's out following along the tours today anyways, amongst the group of wide-eyed newcomers giving the building in question panicked glances, as if it'd burst into flames that very moment. ]

Eh~ How much longer 'til it goes up in flames?

[ Now would be nice, honestly. It's cold. ]

[schemerfreak]

"The semester hasn't even started yet," not that such a thing has stopped an experiment or two from going wrong. Or a student prank or five from going right. "Two- three days or so."

She smirks at all the fresh faces who aren't just some slacker following along on a tour he's had before when he could go hide out indoors. It's fun to teach them fear. "Sooner if something interesting happens. But today seems boring."

[suddenlybees]

Two or three days!

[ Kano echoes the response in mock lament, hand pressed to his chest at the utter travesty that is the fact they've got to wait that long for a bonfire. ]

Aah, but the day's still young, you know~ Especially with all these new faces~!

[ He gestures widely with his arms outspread, standing before the new students with a grin on his face. Fresh blood makes things interesting, that's a reasonable statement to make- seems to be the consensus circulating in whispers and unvoiced thoughts amongst the group. ]

All these ovens and grills working overtime to feed all the new students, I wouldn't be surprised if something exploded after being kept in storage for so long!

[schemerfreak]

The kitchen staff usually follows rules, they're always boring that way.

The science department, well... one of them is super dull. But a few of them are a little more interesting. And when they must do an experiment usually the explosions are very entertaining.

*Leave it to Mal and Kano to just go out of their way to terrify a group of new students who didn't deserve this. But this is what they get.*

Of course, the ovens might get a little help. Food cooks faster with a higher heat right?

*Mal's eyes flashed green a moment to accentuate her point.*