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SCHOOL TRIP: Juniors

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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Micah claimed Calvin for his first Haunted Mansion ride and Calvin also wanted to take Todd on a ""date"" at some point but OTHERWISE, CALVIN AND SPENCER ARE AVAILABLE. FOR THINGS.

i have NO PLANS for either of my boys here. austin will :| the entire time, as he do, and probably spend a ridiculous amount of time just looking at his phone and watching youtube. pester him and make him do things and take super excited pictures next to this statue face. jeffy will =D =D =D the entire time and WILL LOVE EVERYTHING. INCLUDING THE EDUTAINMENT. HEY GUYS THIS SCIENCE CENTER IS GREAT!!!

IF YOU WANT TO DO ANYTHING GRAB EM, THEY'RE YOURS. I DON'T WANT TO OWN THEM ANYMORE.

Eve sat outside of the hotel on the first night, doing something she'd done the first night she'd spent at Gooseberry. She sat cross legged, in a tank top and jean shorts this time, her hands on her folded knees, her eyes closed and just breathed. Back home, there would be a chill to the air, and the sky would've blackened like expansive bruises by midday, clouds heavy with water. Here, it was somehow muggy in November. The air moving in and out of her lungs felt different than London, and Hogwarts and Utah, and she just wanted to fully appreciate it. She wanted to appreciate it because she wasn't sure she'd ever return to Florida. She'd heard it referred to as the arsecrack of the states before, but it was still a place on earth, a place specifically far away from London, and for that she was grateful.

Among the nice new things her however-many-times-removed great aunt provided Ariadne for this new school year is a MacBook, which Ari has lugged with her to Orlando. She's a newcomer to computers, but a quick study, and unfettered internet access is something that's in short supply at Gooseberry. In fact, besides a few short days before term started, this is the first time she's had it. And whatever a normal teenager would use the internet for sans chaperones... well, she's doing this.

She's laying on her stomach on one of the two beds in the room, cross-ways and taking up the whole thing as if to claim her territory. She knows she'll have to share it, which she's trying not to think too much about. It's all fine and good when they're just sitting around, talking about their plans for the weekend and their opinions on Star Wars, but sharing a room with boys is just not something she's used to doing. And sharing a bed with anyone is something she's never done at all. Everyone else seems fine with it, but she's not quite at her ease, and she's still fully dressed even though they're settling in for the evening.

She'll need to get ready for bed eventually, change into her pajamas and take off her make up and all that. But she can distract herself with scrolling through repetitive headlines about the next Star Wars film for a little bit longer. Or she could, if anyone had anything interesting to say about it.

"There's nothing," she tells the others, shutting her laptop and rolling over onto her back. Besides the recently released title of the film, there's not much new information at all, and a year seems like an unbearably long time to wait, to her. "Maybe I'll just write it myself," she suggests.

ROOM 7366 BEST ROOM OR BEST ROOM?

Noel doesn't really do a lot of meditation and self-reflection. It's hot. It's humid. A downpour will come without warning while the sun still shines bright. Florida is pretty great!!

"'Ello, luv!" he greets with a wide grin, mimicking the girl's accent. With a questionable Gatorland T-shirt and American flag board shorts, Noel is immediately recognizable as a tourist. He sits beside her without invitation, mimicking her pose now as well. "What're we doing?"

Can I interest you folks in a rousing game of EPCOT HIDE AND SEEK

Jade doesn’t mind the rooming situation. She’d rather be in close quarters with these three than most other people in her class. She’s well accustomed to living in hotels, and has laid strangely organized claim to one corner of the room. She’s just finished brushing her hair in the bathroom mirror and pads back, barefoot, to the bed she’s sharing with Ari. If that’s an uncomfortable idea, it’s at least fine now. She sits, curling her legs under her on the bed and peering over Ari’s shoulder at the wide world of the internet.

But she’s right, there really isn’t anything.

“You should write it.” She has no doubt Ari would make up just as good a story, if not better.

Edited (Ugh sorry for the pause ) 2017-11-23 17:01 (UTC)

Ana is down!

Through his sixteen years of life thus far, Bash has never not shared a room with at least one other person. And usually a person of the female persuasion. (Usually a person of the female persuasion not at all unwilling to eviscerate him for touching their stuff.) So he surrenders the bathroom without question and doesn't blink an eye at taking whatever's left of one drawer and maybe a single hanger.

Even sharing a bed with Lucas is - okay, maybe that's a little nerve-wracking because no one's passing out while watching movies or his mom isn't downstairs or something. But Jade and Ari are there and maybe changing into pajamas and purposefully going to sleep next to someone's a bit daunting? But it's fine. It's cool. He's got his phone out and his own Google tab is being largely unproductive.

"Their suspense-building is more like frustration-building," he frowns, backing out of another window and blatantly ignoring a text from his sister. He tilts his head up from the screen, one leg bouncing and lips curving upward. "You know where you'd go with it, Ari?"

Edited 2017-11-23 17:22 (UTC)

Micah has never in his life been to Disney World before, but he'd spent his Muggle Tech hours leading up to this doing research. He read up on the best attractions, tips on navigating the parks, and how to best maximize the magic. They're not allowed to go until everyone's dropped off their things in their hotel rooms, and verified with a teacher that they're not taking their wands into the parks, which ends up taking up way too many hours.

Luckily, with it being Thanksgiving weekend, Magic Kingdom is open until midnight every night, leaving them with several hours before curfew and tomorrow's forced "edutainment." Micah walks with a cluster of his classmates through the gates, and snaps pictures of any of them who'll stand still long enough.

And there it is. "Cinderella's Castle!!!!" Micah spends exactly two seconds oohing and aahing before he lifts his camera again and asks for his friends to model in front of it.

Edited (feel free to make your own scenes under this heading if you want! or jump in on big group scene stuff. whatever!) 2017-11-23 17:33 (UTC)

Calvin rolls his trunk into the tiny room, careful to drag it in far enough so that his roommate can get his own luggage through the door. It's cramped, but clean, and covered in bright colours that would appeal more to someone about five to ten years younger than either of them. Despite this, Calvin is excited. He's been trying to maintain some scepticism, but it's difficult when so many of his classmates are over the moon. He hardly knows any of the characters they're cooing over, and he absolutely will not be wearing mouse ears, but...

"This is fun," he concludes, and sits down on the foot of the far bed. His old steamer trunk (a hand-me-down from an uncle) is desperately out of place here. "Everythin's very... colourful. So many giant cartoon statues, lots of large letters with outdated slang plastered all over the buildin', hideous employee uniforms... Fun." His mouth says fun, his tone says amusingly tacky, I kind of hate it. "Do the, ah, actual parks look like this?"

Eve peeks open an eye to look at Noel. His entire appearance makes her smile because he looks bloody ridiculous. Then she closes her eye again. "Enjoying not-London," she says very reasonably. "It's humid as fuck." Her hair is a testament to just how humid it is. Her natural curly hair is frizzy and defying gravity, creating a messy halo around her head. She's doing a really good job of ignoring it. She cracks open her eye again to look at him through the mess of hair obscuring her eyes. "What're you doing? You pick up meditation, love?" She asks cheekily, elbowing him.

Honestly, Micah was pretty psyched to visit the Muggle Science Center and run through the Preserved Corpses Expo, but all of his plans had been Disney-World-related, so he's pretty eager to get back to it. "It" being Epcot, Micah's only chance to travel outside the country this year.

After forcing Calvin to stop several minutes so Micah can take photos of the giant golf ball, they're back on track. "Okay, so, that's Canada—" Micah consults the brochure in his hand, as though all the red-and-white flags weren't enough of a clue. "—which means, geographically, we'll be entering the United Kingdom next."

"This is probably how the extended universe - rest in peace - got started." Lucas unwinds himself from a curled up knot against the backboard. He stretches out his legs as he mumbles, matter-of-fact, and rolls forward across the bed so that his arms and legs dangle off either side.

He looks positively relaxed as he sets his phone on the bedstand. Why on Earth would he be worried about sleeping arrangements? He doesn't have to even think about that until it's his turn in the bathroom. It's not his turn, is it? Of course not.

"Fanfiction's a time-honored tradition, anyway," he says.

Edited (aughhh that took so long sorry) 2017-11-23 18:45 (UTC)

"Nooooo, they look way better," Micah assures him as he drops his suitcase right in the middle of the carpeted walkway between Calvin and the door. He leans down to retrieve his laptop so he can show Calvin some pictures he saved, then changes his mind. They'll be seeing it soon enough.

Instead, Micah just grabs his leather camera bag. "Come on, come on, come on. We should see if anyone else is ready to go."

"I'm not ready t'go," Calvin objects, exasperated. They've barely sat down and Micah's already antsy to run out again. How is he not drained from all the Flooing?

Not allowing himself to be rushed, Calvin goes to pick the perfect corner for his trunk. He scoots it into place, and only then opens the lid. "I need t'shower first. Or at least change into somethin' more suitable for the weather. And brush my hair. So sit down."

"Calviiiiiiiin," Micah whines, purposefully annoying. "Don't do this to meeeeeeeee." Regardless, he flops down on his bed, trying to look pathetic even though he knows full well that Calvin is immune to emotional displays. He pushes his bangs out of his face with one hand. (Maybe he should comb his hair too? Nah.)

Micah rests his chin on his folded arms, just watching Calvin. "You look fine," he offers, one last ditch effort. "Very handsome. Even Todd will be distracted from churros and princesses to check you out."

"I have plenty of ideas," Ari says, sitting up properly to make room for Jade on the bed. Having ideas has never been her problem. Any good story is begging for a sequel, and she reads a lot of good stories. "Are there people who make a living writing those books?" she wonders. Forget journalism. That's a career.

But she's not so distracted that she can't focus on the issue at hand, which is figuring out what's going on with this sequel movie. "Even if they're starting over with new characters, they've got to be about the children," she says. That only seems natural.

Edited (got distracted by animal crossing) 2017-11-23 20:59 (UTC)

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SCHOOL TRIP: Juniors

DEPARTURE/ARRIVAL

THE HOTEL

DAY TWO: EDUTAINMENT

DAY THREE: DISNEY WORLD

GOING HOME

OOC 🐭 Questions, comments, concerns!

Re: OOC 🐭 Questions, comments, concerns!

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First night; open to multiple

Night One; Room 7367

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Christmas Eve

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Night One; Room 7367

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Night One; Room 7367

DAY 1: MAGIC KINGDOM (open to all)

Night One: Room 7368

Re: Christmas Eve

Micah & Calvin visit Fake England

Night One; Room 7367

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Night One: Room 7368

Night One: Room 7368

Night One; Room 7367