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SCHOOL TRIP: Juniors

As the junior class steps out off the Floo network, they're immediately hit by the humidity, in stark contrast with dry Utah. The excitement amongst the students (even if it's not totally unanimous) is palpable. They file onto buses, and soon they're on their way to the most magical place on earth. Everyone breaks out in high pitched teenage elation as the bus passes under the gate the proclaims this is the place where dreams come true. The Disney bus driver quips and jokes with the boisterous highschoolers.

Students are given packets that contain their hotel room key, park passes, allowance, a description of their dining plan and tickets, the itinerary, and a basic list of rules. For the most part, it looks like they'll have a lot of freedom, so long as they don't break any rules. "This is going to be great," Mr. Elmasty proclaims, who seems happy to be a kid more than a teacher this weekend.

HOW THIS WORKS

The junior class is visiting Orlando, Florida! They'll be staying in the Pop Century Resort.

They're in a block of rooms on the third floor of a set of buildings themed for 80's and 80's pop culture. The nearest swimming pool is themed like a 90's laptop.

Staff presence: Ms. Rhee, Mr. Elmasry, Ms. Whittle

Students will have to go through the North American Floo network, so they can't have any contraband in their bags, such as weapons or drugs. After arriving at the MACUSA Floo hub in Orlando, they'll be taken to their hotel on Disney property.

For the two non-travel days, in the morning there will be a set school activity that's mandatory, and in the evenings students can do whatever they want to.
- Friday: Our Body, The Universe Within / Orlando Science Center. Students leave at 9:00 AM, and return to the hotel at 3:00 PM
- Saturday: Disney World. Just... go. The staff knows that's the only reason you're here.
Juniors are given an allowance of $15 per day for food and leisure, as well as a Disney Dining Plan and a 3 day Parkhopper ticket to Disney World. Using the dining plan, students may spend "credits" on meals, allowing even those with minimal funds to go to expensive restaurants in Disney World if they strategize. Nice! Any room charges will come out of your character's allowance. They may spend their own personal money however they please.

Curfew is 12:00 AM. Teachers will come through to make sure everyone is in their rooms. The only exception is for the students who are staying out later for "Extra Magic Hours" on Friday and Saturday night at the Magic Kingdom. Mr. Elmasry will stay out until 1:00 AM with students opting to do this, and he'll return to the hotel with them.

Students are not allowed to take their wands into the Disney parks due to the International Statute of Secrecy. The staff give everyone a lecture reminding them about keeping their magic use under wraps.

The park will be busy because it's Thanksgiving Weekend, and it will be decorated for Christmas already. The weather will be fairly mild for Florida, but still expect heat and humidity.

ALTHOUGH THIS IS BEING POSTED ON 11/22, STUDENTS WILL NOT ACTUALLY BE LEAVING UNTIL THE MORNING OF 11/23!

Room 7359: Hazel / Susana / Cole

Room 7360: Austin / Samantha / Solomon / Regan

Room 7361: Bianca / Joanna / Milo / Isabelle

Room 7362: Gabriela / Evangeline / Charlotte

Room 7363: Madison / Ruby

Room 7364: Heathcliff / Spencer / Noel

Room 7365: Estella / Ira

Room 7366: Jefferson / Tristan / Zachary

Room 7367: Ariadne / Sebastien / Jade / Lucas

Room 7368: Calvin / Micah

Room 7369: Cassius / Todd

» DEPARTURE: Any scenes relating to leaving campus or arriving in Orlando can go here!

» THE HOTEL: Any scenes that take place at the hotel can go here!

» DAY TWO: EDUTAINMENT: Please just tolerate this one day of pretending the trip has educational value.

» DAY THREE: DISNEY WORLD: Your schedules are freed for an entire day in the Most Magical Place on Earth. You know, as far as muggles are concerned.

» GOING HOME: Time to pack up and return to Utah.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

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Okay, so, they like each other. That's been established. Like, kind of. It's been established enough. That was supposed to be the difficult part, the part that made them want to throw up (in a good way!!) and melt into the floor (also in a good way!!) and now there's just that big flashing question of WHAT NEXT? Is this... where dating happens? How does one transition from JUST FRIENDS to MORE THAN JUST FRIENDS when you can't really go on DATES that aren't just DANCES??

Jeffy is, basically, very confused, and he doesn't know why his sister keeps texting him to ask what he and Essie are up to at Disney when he definitely hasn't said anything to her about him and Essie because he doesn't even know what he would say and oh my god, she's just making it worse. Or is he making it worse?

Maybe he should do something with Essie. Like go on a date?? But not something super fancy, because that seems like too much, and they already did a fancy thing not that long ago, and also because Jeffy does not have enough money or enough strategic skill points to figure out how to spend his credits that wisely anyways, and once again, that is TOO MUCH. He and Essie aren't even, like, officially dating or anything (right???? he would KNOW if they were???), so that would be WEIRD but he wants to do SOMETHING and oh my god he's getting hungry, he needs to just say something so they can get some food.

"HEY," Jeffy says to Essie at what seems like an opportune moment, and hopes he wasn't just weirdly quiet for a super long time while he fretted over every aspect of this, "Are you hungry? We should get something to eat! If you want. I mean." He looks around for a convenient spot to eat, like this was something that just sprang into his mind right here and now, because he just happened to smell something super delicious. His eyes fall on a food stand serving the most quintessential carnival foods of them all: hot dogs, corn dogs, cotton candy, curly fries, and a general assortment of things both fried and sugary. Yep. There's the perfect date night meal right there. "That place looks super good."

Haha okay, wow, so this is definitely not a date because you have to be like DATING for there to be dates??? And Essie and Jeffy are totally just two friends hanging out who maybe kissed a couple times in a closet, but there was also (infintesimal amounts of) alcohol involved and hidden passages and vampires, so it was kind of a crazy night???

So, Jeffy, if you're kind of confused, no one is really going to blame you.

Essie had been weirdly mum on the whole thing. Not that there hadn't been dozens of discarded letters with the lines "OH MY GOSH, PIPPA!!! You won't BELIEVE what HAPPENED?!?" in them, but then every time she'd tried to actually write what happened it just kind of seemed like the whole thing had been made up and she wanted to barf again. Which was definitely a feeling she had every time she saw Jeffy and it was a miracle that she made it through that last Quidditch match in one piece. And so what if maybe every time she had greeted Jeffy over the past two weeks, it'd been an octave higher than usual. But Essie wasn't being weird, YOU'RE being weird.

But all the weirdness aside, there was basically only one person in the world that Essie would want to hang out with at Disney more than Jeffy, and she was stuck an ocean away so all urges to bolt were being suppressed for the good of the Mouse. (Look, Essie's voice is ALWAYS this high!!!)

On the meal front, well, Essie has more than enough money to take them somewhere fancy. Or, well, she did, but then she kind of kept buying mouse ears and she's almost got a full week rotation now!!! And really, isn't that so much more important than actually putting food in her mouth? But now that Jeffy mentions it, Essie kind of IS feeling hungry??? And if she wants to stay up all night going on rides, then it's PROBABLY a good idea to eat some food. Which... eating food together, just the two fo them... does that maybe qualify as a DATE??? Wait, oh gosh, when did this become a date??? Essie just wants to eat a hot dog so she can ride Splash Mountain like a hundred more times???

"Um, YEAH. Totally!!!" Essie agrees to... something that Jeffy just said. Wow, okay, just breathe, Essie!!! "How sproingy do you think the curly fries are, because if they don't like BOUNCE all the way to the next table..." A pause. A shift to twang. Ut oh. "Then I reckon there needs to be some words exchanged with these fry manglin' city slickers." Yeah!!! Allright!!! Way to not be weird!!!

"Maybe we oughta have a curly fry SHOWDOWN," Jeffy says, and it's not clear if he's adopting his candy rustler voice here or not. It's something in between dirty rotten scoundrel and no good city slicker. "Rustle up all the curly fries in the park and pit 'em against each other to see who's got the sproingiest." This is a worthy pursuit, something they should definitely spend their valuable time and money and dining credits on instead of riding splash mountain thirty more times before they have to go home.

"But... then we'll have to eat ALL those fries. You really think we're UP to that task?" Jeffy's voice takes on a teasing tone, probably because he doesn't actually know how much this here little lady can eat. He wasn't there at Canadian Thanksgiving. There are a lot of things he needs to learn.

Edited (SORRY I DIED YESTERDAY) 2017-11-29 16:24 (UTC)

SCHOOL TRIP: Juniors

DAY THREE: Jeffy & Essie vs. Fried Food

DAY THREE: Jeffy & Essie vs. Fried Food

DAY THREE: Jeffy & Essie vs. Fried Food