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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Relieved, Lachlan laughs quietly too and gestures to the photographs in front of him, "If you're bein' rude, we're both bein' rude. Dinnae be sorry." He drops both of elbows against his folded knees and and smiles at the other boy. "I'd...like to ask what sort of things 'strike you'? If you don't mind. I'm curious. Since cabins... up north don't do the trick?"

"Oh, it's, um," Yancey raises his arms, looking a bit like a conductor. His hands hang in the air for a moment while he thinks of what he wants to say. And then, once he's figured it out, he attempts, with varied success, to illustrate what he's describing with hand gestures. "The lines of things. The repetition and color contrast - like all the old buildings with tons of wrought iron around windows and balconies? That was pretty cool. There's so many unique shapes in the architecture."

Then he laughs, walking his enthusiasm back a bit. "Gave me a few ideas. Um, did you get many interesting pictures?"

Lachlan isn't an artist. His brother has told him on more than one occasion that he doesn't have an artistic or creative or fanciful bone in his body. He might be right. But that just makes Yancey's enthusiastic answer all the more interesting to him. And, maybe, more endearing too. He gives a small nod and an uncertain smile that makes it clear he doesn't completely understand but that he's trying to. "Paris is diverse when it comes to architecture; it's got everything from Gallo-Roman to Baroque to Contemporary. Seeing it all side by side and blending together...it's pretty cool."

Then he glances down at the photographs and shrugs. "I'm not much of a photographer. But it's good to be able to look back on these things, you know?" He pauses, then offers Yancey a lopsided grin, "Dinnae tell your sister I said so. She thinks I should take pride in my pictures. I dinnae have the heart to tell her I probably just got lucky last time."

Edited (...Shame. :( ) 2017-11-29 01:51 (UTC)

Yancey's grin goes broad and sort of apologetic at the mention of a run-in with one of the twins. Still, he knows his sisters. Even if they are both evil in a Children of the Corn kind of way.

"Now, if it'd been anything else? Then I'd be suspicious of her advice. But Beans knows what she's talking about when it comes to pictures, Lach," he tilts his head to the side, hands back to moving about animatedly as he speaks. There's obvious fondness for his family in his warning. "Not photography, though."

He pauses, one hand hesitating before reaching out, across the gaps between the beds. "Mind if I take a look? Not that I have an eye for that stuff at all."

Lachlan grins, the expression perfectly articulating that he understands clever little sisters and that he has the same sort of affection for Maisie that Yancey has for London and Paris. But he still hesitates when the other boy asks him to hand over the pictures. His lips only thin for a moment, though, before he's gathering the photographs into a neat stack and leaning to offer them up. What was the point in taking pictures if he wasn't going to let other people see them, after all? "...Sure. If you want to. You've got to have more of an eye than I do."

Mostly, he's right about the photos. They've got decent composition and the subjects are always clear but nearly all of them are just mediocre tourist snaps that record the events of the trip and little else. There are some good shots of their friends and classmates, though, and a few taken in the gardens that might actually be better than good. But they're pretty rare.

Prepared to wait while Yancey looks through the photos, Lachlan glances toward the window and anxiously toys with a blonde twist of hair.

SCHOOL TRIP: Seniors

NIGHT THREE: Yancey & Lachlan

NIGHT THREE: Yancey & Lachlan

NIGHT THREE: Yancey & Lachlan

NIGHT THREE: Yancey & Lachlan

NIGHT THREE: Yancey & Lachlan