As you enter English you get a look from your teacher, Ms.Tamako Ando because of the food on the tray but then she realizes what it is and just nods. And waves you to take a seat, so you sit down and Yuri goes to his seat. It seems the two of you don't sit to close together in English then again, your English class is rarely taught with group activities in mind. You wonder if it is because Ms.Ando, has trouble controlling more then one group. Besides that is not a huge problem, she teaches a bit slower then what some students might want to be part of but at the same time the pace ensures that you and most of the others students will pass. The School does provided more a aggressive teachers, but the students for the most part have few complaints about the class. Your coarse load is to read explain and write about different books, you had already read a number of them so your not to worried as a whole about the work. It seems Ms.Ando, simply wished to help reinforce the students ability to write and read as a whole. Rather then teach and go in a new direction as other teachers might have done for a senior year class.
Being as you have food and have gotten an permission to go a head and eat it as she teaches, you keep digging into the food. She is talking for a while about were in the reading she expects the students to be, she then asks questions on the book to other students avoiding to ask you any questions because your pressing food into your mouth. After a little while she starts to talk about, how to write the paper about the book once read, she wants it done in a different style then normal but not much. It seems for the current book the class is reading she wants them to write a short paragraph as a synopsis, much like what would be on the back but in this regards it is to be of your own making. It can be upwards of a whole page should the synopsis as it is in many books is put on the last page. You shrug and smile to yourself at how easy that will be, but the fact is the book your suppose to be reading and the work for it is not due for a few weeks still. Then Ms.Ando goes over a list of books she would recommend for the readers who are already finished with the current book, and points out if they do the work they should do on the current book on extra books they will get credit for it as well.
Finally about half way through the class she takes a break and goes to her desk and sits down, and looks over the class happy to see a lot of students are taking down the list of extra books. She notices your still eating and calls you to the table, seeing that you have no space to write down the list she hands you a piece of paper and says " Here this is the list, I know like some of the others you have read the book already I figured if you find time or wish to do more you can. As I instructed at the beginning of the year, the required books and the work and taking part in the questions and so on is only a C+ or so in grades, to get more credit other books are required. But I leave it to the students to read them, I also give them a piece of paper to do the questions much like I do during the normal class as you know. So that is how that is but this is the new list of books."
You look down over the list and it does not look half bad, it has some Science Fiction. You realize a few of them also seem to be titles that seem to point towards whats going on in the school and so on. You smirk and say " I guess some of these are to help prepare the students to accept what is coming in the years to come in regards to the stuff the Government is doing soon?"
Ms.Ando had gone back to looking at her papers and stuff and looks up surprised to see you still standing there and says " I only suggested what Dr.Otto said I should have the students read this time, if that is what it is about then that is what it is about? But I don't know I mean I was not told about anything."
You then decide to ask " Have you read these books? or are you going to look into it yourself as soon as possible?"
Ms.Ando blushes and says " I have read a few of them, they suggest things that are just to much to talk about honestly."
You smile at your teacher and say " You may want to talk to the school nurse a bit of the subject of these stories upset you."
Ms.Ando seems to be thinking as she licks her lips as if they had gone dry not because she is thinking perverse things thou you could be wrong and she says " I don't know, I mean would it not be better to talk about these stories with a male? Or with my club students? I mean I know I help them understand the aspects of good music, much like I help in class to help students understand the aspects of good writing?"
You look at her a moment and ask "I guess that would work and it's not like the students run the club, it's just as suggestion they come to your club to take part in what your teaching or supporting in many cases. Thou I would think a club about liking or playing music would be done by a music teacher."
Ms.Ando shakes her head and says " I teach them to play, and understand one on one. And then to appreciate the aspects of it, the music teacher is to stiff. When I meet the music teacher here I knew just what I had to do."
You smile as she her support her feelings so strongly considering how shy she is about other things and say " Well, I guess that is good too. We should all be so lucky to do something we like."
Ms.Ando picks up her head from her paper, and smiles at you and says " That is very true, it's the theme of many a good book or stories. And even quite a few pieces of music." she also notices your tray of food is not finished, and asks " are you done with that food?"
You nod and say " I ate all that I could, would you like it?"
Ms.Ando looks at the tray a second longer and nods and adds " I did not get a chance to eat yet, my lunch is after this class." So you return to your table and pick up the tray and bring it to your teacher and give it to her, she pulls out a clean pair of chop sticks and starts to eat what is left. You just smile knowing at least it did not go to waste as you return to your desk. A short while after she took the rest of your meal, Dzaya comes in with a pass for you.
Ms.Ando calls you to the desk again, reads the message hands you the pass smiles and says " looks like you must leave, I will see you in a few days then. Just remember to read something good." You nod as you follow Dzaya out of the room.
Dzaya takes your hand and kisses you on the cheek once you exit the room, and says " Well now, it's time we get back to the Gym. The assistance, that Cora and I gave to Charlie. Pretty much went alright, thou a few of the students wondered why students from other classes were aiding there teacher instead of students from there class."
You think a second and say " I can see how that might give them some concern but I am sure Kaylee helped some to right? I mean she is able to teach after all."
Dzaya nods and says " Well, she just explained that Mr.Jackson was doing her job and that she is doing his job. But in order to do what she has to do, she needs assistance. And one thing lead to another and they all ended up helping to keep setting up the things that need to moved in the gym. That is not to say it is finished quite yet but it does happen to be moving on pretty well."
You stop and look at her up and down and realize she is all sweaty, and you notice she is not unhappy so at least this is going for you and ask " So your not upset, that Kaylee keeps sending me back to my class? and having the two of you help her?"
Dzaya shakes her head and says " She is just helping us to understand better what kind of rules females will have to have in the time to come, and she is trying to get us to relax. She figured since the females will mostly be the ones having more issues then the males, even with people like yourself having issues. She feels in fact that your resistance towards the more animal or instinctively driven behavior, will be easier for males then females in regards to what is going on. She understands you suppress your instinctive drive, or should I say sex drive. But at the same time she knows you also respond, in your own way. She just thought I and Cora, since I am a bit more female in behavior and Cora is a bit more Tom Boyish. That are own personalities could help her form her lessons better to suit all people, so it just so happen that what Faith had done when dragging us up to her class room. Was a great help to solve a problem of Kaylees before Kaylee knew she had one."
You shrug and say " It's much better to have friends who expect and express and aspire to help without knowing it then it's to have friends who pick and poke fun at every little thing I do."
Dzaya smirks and says " Not all your friends poke fun at you, most of them are just as worried about what is going on as you are. And as I watched the exchange earlier it seems Yuri knows at least as much as you do, thou he got it from his own abilities and skills and bits of the facts are missing for him. Where as we simply got to ask for them, Viktor seems mostly to just absorb the information and go with it. I have considered telling Kaylee about Anton's likely hood of not having the maturity to deal with this all."
You of course had also considered this but had decided on another course of action and state " If he is willing to make an honest attempt at behaving, then I don't see why we don't give him a chance to collect himself I mean we have days to watch what he does. And by the end of the day he should have a good idea what is going on, and if he freaks out chances are we know to advise her to do something about it."
Dzaya shrugs, and pulls a bit of money from her pocket as you walk past soda machines and ask " Do you want one? I was going to get one at lunch but well you know. Cora and I decided that it best that one of us stay with you on the roof top, I hope you don't mind? I have enough for another if you like, or we can share it."
You nod and say " It's fine of course, I had a lot to eat as you know and something bubbly. Might through off my stomach at this point."
She quickly nods and puts the money and the machine, hits a button your not sure what and she pulls it out. It seems she picked a root beer, you had noticed sometime ago when it came to soda many countries that sold products based on the Americanized style. Tend to use the English name, but the fact remained that many of the Asian root drinks you could find are sold hot or cold and are often treated more like a tea. She smiles and opens it and takes a drink and says " Nothing like a cold drink after pushing heavy things around."
You nod remembering the summer before last were you had to help rearrange the apartment where your family lives, your sisters had needed more closet space so your parents gave them the room they sleep in, taking the room your brother and you share since it was second biggest and the two of you ended up with the smallest room in the place. Your parents had considered taking the office but it was not attached a bathroom. So your brother and you share the community bathroom, as you clear your thoughts. The two of you finally get to the gym and enter. |