gooseberryhigh | SCHOOL TRIP: Seniors

SCHOOL TRIP: Seniors

Ah, Paris. The city of love. This weekend it will be host to Gooseberry's senior class as part of their school trip. The weather's a little rainy, but not cold. The clouds and afternoon drizzles add a bit to the ambience.

Students are given packets that contain their hotel room key, museum pass, allowance, a map of the city and its Floo network, 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. "We want you to explore the city as independent young adults," says Mr. Calderon-Boot. "We're trusting you, so don't let us down."

HOW THIS WORKS

The senior class is going to Paris, France! They'll be staying at the Hotel Les Theatres. Rooms can either have two twin beds, two queen sized beds, or one queen sized bed.

Staff presence: Mr. Calderon-Boot, Mr. Merrill, Ms. Lilywhite

Students will have to go through international magical customs, so they can't have any contraband in their bags, such as weapons or drugs. They will be travelling via the Floo network to the Parisian Magical Transportation & Travel Station, after which they'll be taken to their hotel.

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: Palace of Versailles, the Catacombs. Students leave at 9:00 AM, and return to the hotel at 3:00 PM
- Saturday: Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Notre Dame. Students leave to see the city at 9:00 AM, and return to the hotel at 3:00 PM
Students are given an allowance of €40 (~$50) per day for food and leisure. They have student passes to get into museums, gardens, etc. with no charge, and the hotel has a free continental breakfast. Any room charges will come out of your character's allowance. They may spend their own personal money however they please.

The staff are aware that many of the seniors are of legal drinking age in France. They simply ask students not to overdo it, and to contact a staff member if they ever get stranded or drink too much. They won't get in trouble.

Curfew is 12:00 AM. Teachers will come through to make sure everyone is in their rooms. Reid Wainwright has a curfew of 10:00 PM as a consequence of skipping Cotillion.

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

Room 508: Adeline / Riley / Antonia / Ursula

Room 509: Cameron / Casper

Room 510: Wilde / Ulysses / Iliya

Room 511: Casey / Phineas

Room 512: Sybilla / Veronica / Phoebe

Room 513: Mackenzie / Sofia

Room 514: Ennis / Yancey

Room 515: Jaime / Lachlan / Oscar

Room 516: Kurt / Reece / Reid

Room 517: Lilika / Webster / Roxanne

Room 518: Olivia / Avery / Dominic

Room 519: Chloe / Saira

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

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

» DAY TWO: Palace of Versailles, the Catacombs: Art! Culture! Dead bodies!

» DAY THREE: Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, Notre Dame: Oh my god so much art and culture!!!!

» GOING HOME: Time to pack up and return to the states.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

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Nia is wearing sunglasses for two reasons:

It looks hip.
The dark circles under her eyes have an event horizon.

She nurses a large cup of white coffee, fingers wrapped tight around the mug for warmth, and occasionally glances at the croissant in front of her. Oh, croissant. You will be eaten. Eventually. Your fate is inevitable. As soon as Nia works up the strength to eat you.

Instead she stares out at the street and watches people wander by. It's very French - she's like 80% sure it's very French. Sitting in a Parisian Cafe with a coffee and a croissant, people watching. It'd be perfect if she didn't also feel like shit.

"Three days and I haven't scored a single French girlfriend or boyfriend," she jokingly laments to the people at her table.

[Feel free to start your own cafe scenes under this heading if you wanna??]

Edited (too much white space) 2017-11-25 17:49 (UTC)

Phin glances up from his sketchbook, in which he's been drawing particularly interesting looking old people and what he imagines their patronus forms would look like (as it turns out: mostly dogs, hideous monkeys, or the odd parrot). This is an exercise in ignoring a hangover, or something that would definitely be one if he were slightly more unlucky. Perhaps it'll hit him worse later, when they're somewhere important.

"You've still got tonight for breaking hearts."

"A hail mary play in the fourth quarter," Nia, who knows less about football than she does about quidditch, says with a thoughtful nod, like she's just been given a great idea. "Sounds like a plan."

She leans over, popping her sunglasses up with her index finger to peek at Phin's sketchbook. "People and dogs?" She asks, gaze flicking up to his face.

Phineas has no idea what Nia's just said.

He pushes his sketchbook toward her when he realizes she's looking, reaching for his mug of coffee instead. "Guessing at patronus forms. That bulldog one's my favorite. Some people have just got a certain... face."

He squints at her, playful. "D'you know yours? Could do a portrait. Free, for a bite of that croissant."

Letting go of her coffee, she pulls the sketchbook closer, careful, like she's afraid she'll smudge it. And though her eyes are hidden behind her shades, which, honestly, look ridiculous, her lips do tug into a grin. "These are great, new kid. Love the parrot. Very accurate."

Eyes still fixed on the sketches, she slides her croissant toward him. "Pretty sure it's a peacock. Only got a partial...manifestation? Formation?"

"I'm good at birds." There's been loads of practice: Lucy and her frank, expressive little self, Lachlan's parakeet, denizens of the owlery. Actually, he'd half expected his own patronus to be a bird, until it came out a coyote instead.

Phineas takes a bite of the croissant with little ceremony, then trades it for his sketchbook once it seems Nia's had enough of a look. He wipes a few crumbs from the tabletop with a sleeve and turns to a clean page. "Yeah? Think it's funny how some get the gist of it before they see it. Mine didn't look like anything at all till I had the spell right."

He looks at her carefully, then begins his sketch. Sunglasses. Those have got an emphasis. They make her look a bit like an alien, actually, in the crude lines of his style.

"It's a weird old spell," she agrees, picking at the flaky pastry and popping a bit of it in her mouth before turning in her seat to better watch Phin draw. "I'm sure there's some meaning behind that, too." Her voice drops low and dramatic at that meaning. Like, oh, yes, absolutely the sort of thing you write a treatise on.

There's something soothing about watching a person draw. And eventually, she's putting an elbow on the table so she can rest her cheek in her hand. As those caricature sun glasses come together, her smile ticks up. Nia pops her own dark specs up and away from her eyes with a flick of a finger.

"Nice," she says, grinning, volume dropping to a whisper. Not that it's necessary, but Nia thinks library volume somehow feels appropriate when you're talking to someone who's drawing. "That is speaking to me."

Phineas laughs, a low, contented sound. "Maybe we're just rubbish, is the meaning."

He sort of angles so that Nia can see better: a little bit of shading here, there. Her hair requires a few close glances.

"Think I've got the proportions right there?" Phin taps his pencil on the coffee cup in her tiny sketchy hands. It's practically half the size of her body, or the suggestion of her body -- there's just the shoulders, and then some swirling mist, as though she's a patronus herself.

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