Headmistress Kijewski
January 07, 2012 1:24 PM
Returning Feast by Headmistress Kijewski
Midterm had been completely different than what Kiva had anticipated. The two weeks home with her son and family was always nice and she had been able to get to know Walter a bit better. Her mother was acting like a teenager with her new love interest and Kiva was happy for her. Although she would always miss her father, she knew that her mother was still young and deserved a new happiness. Her mother wasn’t the only one in a new relationship. Kiva had begun dating a man whom she had been friends with since she had become a mother, seven years prior. As awkward as the moment had been for them, they were incredibly happy with each other and it seemed so natural and normal for them to be together. She had no idea why it had taken so long, but she knew that it had been mainly her. It took her a long time to let go of things and really take a chance with something new. But everything was good now. Very good. And that reflected in her as she stood to greet the students.“Good Evening everyone! I hope your Holidays went well and everyone is now all refreshed and ready to get back to work.” Kiva waited for any murmurs that were bound to come around for that comment. “Before we begin the returning feast, I wanted to share with you the end of the year Midsummer Event. This year is the Fair and we were lucky enough to be able to secure a location that is new to all of you.” Kiva paused for dramatic affect, but also to make sure that everyone was listening to her.
“This year, the fair will take place in Tumbleweed.” Kiva was actually really excited by this prospect. It had been a long time since she had been in that town. It had always been so fun. “Tumbleweed will be docked here for a weekend and during their stay, they will host the fair. There will be the usual games and rides, but there will also be some additional games and activities that you all can get involved in. The main one that I wanted to talk to you about was the craft booth that will be there. The town is having a competition on their crafts that they would like for you all to be a part of. You have this half of term to create something. Examples would be knitting an article of something, or creating pottery, painting or drawing a picture. Anything crafty. The day of the Fair, we will have you submit these works to the booth and throughout the day the judges will review these works and at the end of the night and give out ribbons.
“There is also a Hipporiff raising competition that you are allowed to partake in. If you are interested in that, you will have to speak with Professor O’Shaunassey as he will be providing you with the creature as well as the housing.” Kiva nodded to the new Care of Magical Creatures before continuing, “And lastly, there is a chili cook off that you are more than welcome to join. If you are interested in any of these, please let your Head of Houses or myself know. We’d like to have a number to provide the heads of the festival for each contest.” She really hoped some of the students involved themselves in it because that would show how appreciative the students were for everything and that they were willing to put in the effort.
“There will also be animal shows, square dancing, and some entertainment for you all to enjoy. If you have any questions or concerns, please see any of the staff members.” Kiva announced to them. She hoped that the fair would be enjoyable for everyone, but she knew there would be those with whom she was never going to be able to please. “That is all the announcements I had. Please enjoy your meal.”
Subthreads: Back for an exciting term! by Waverly Canterbury with Jade Owen, Waverly
Where things are normal . . . sort of by Derry Four with Reggie Parker
One last welcoming feast by Andrew Duell with Jose Hernandez, Jose
Eating the return feast by Thaddeus Pierce II with Alicia Bauer
Returning and feasting. by Rachel Bauer with Nic Sawyer
Intrigued by Evan Brockert with Cepheus Princeton, Cepheus
Returning to the feast by Jane Carey
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Waverly Canterbury
January 07, 2012 1:48 PM
Back for an exciting term! by Waverly Canterbury
Waverly's winter break had been really nice. She had been so happy to see her parents and her sister again, she'd almost cried. She hadn't realized how much she had missed them till she saw them again. She had gone home where Mom had made her favorite foods, and Waverly was in heaven once more. The next couple weeks had been just like before, except she didn't have to wake up super early to go to school. Overall, it had been relaxing, and she'd been sad to go, but excited to go back to school. She didn't usually do well with mixed feelings, so she had thrown herself into the excited state. She couldn't deny her love for Sonora and the people she had met.She entered the hall for the feast, hungry for food. She hadn't eaten much. Her excitement to come back had knotted her stomach earlier, but now she was ready to eat. She greeted a few people she knew before she sat down, and then listened to the headmistress speak. Her green eyes widened considerably when she mentioned a fair. A fair! Waverly loved those kinds of things. Fairs, carnivals, amusement parks! Those were the things on Waverly's list of favorite places, and she was suddenly excited to get involved.
Waverly thought of a craft she could do. She wasn't exactly the most talented with her hands, unless it was making bread and pastries (her mom had actually trusted her with the oven this time!), and she thought about working with the chili cook-off. If only she knew how to make chili...she wasn't even sure if her own mother knew how to make chili. This was going to be a hard decision.
But besides that, the sound of a fair was just added more excitement to the first-year. The first time she had gone to a fair, she had been nine. She still remembered petting the farm animals she probably wouldn't have seen anywhere else. Since her magical creature's class, she wondered what kind of magical creatures they would have at a wizard's fair. Intrigued and thoughtful, Waverly didn't see the food arrive until she smelled it. Mm, fried chicken. She put some onto her plate and turned to her neighbor.
"Are you excited for the fair?" she asked, smiling. "I sure am." Waverly couldn't think of anything she wanted to do more than participate in a baking contest, but she'd have to settle for crafts. "I'm going to think of a craft to make. I wish they had a baking contest! That would be fun to participate in. Do you think you're going to participate in the contests in any way?"
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Jade Owen
January 09, 2012 6:02 AM
Extra exciting! by Jade Owen
Jade wasn't sure what she'd been expecting when she returned home over the midterm break, but what she found was that everything was the same. Her parents were the same, her house was the same, and even the animals were the same. Her own kitten, Bella, now looked bigger than she had done before, compared to the other animals, but because Jade had seen the little cat every day she hadn't noticed the change herself. Just as always, the Owen family argued, laughed, played together and ate too much on Christmas day. Just as usual, they didn't have many presents, and those they could manage were small or second-hand - possibly both. Jade had managed to recover a new-looking book for her older brother from a second-hand book store, and a striped hairband for her sister, bulking up both gifts with some cheap candy. In turn she'd received a set of colored pencils from James and a stuffed toy cat from Josephine, which looked just like her old cat, Pablo. Jade decided to name him as such, and Pablo and Bella were now both curled up on her lap as the Headmistress welcomed all the students back to school.Having two older siblings at the school, Jade already knew about the Midsummer activities, and that this year there would be a fair. however, as each event was only held once every four years, even james hadn't been at the school long enough yet for there to be a fair, so it would be as new to either of them as it was to her. It sounded like it could go either way in terms of enjoyment - the bit about hippogriff racing sounded awesome, but crafts competitions and square dancing were the epitome of lame. Waverly, on the other hand, seemed all excited. Jade decided to indulge her - she liked her Muggleborn roomate, despite (and sometimes because of) her naivety about magic - and shrugged as she replied, "Hippogriff racing sounds cool." Since the actual Pecari Seeker had some sort of medical problem or something, Jade had been asked to play Seeker in the first Pecari Quidditch game; she thought racing a hippogriff might be easy after that.
Surveying the banquet before her, Jade took up some chicken and pasta and cheese, dumping the lot of it on her plate before she sprinkled her meal with vinegar. "My sister will be making a craft," Jade assumed, because that's what Josephine tended to do in her spare time. She couldn't remember if she'd ever pointed out her sister to Waverly or not, but since they were in the same House there was a fair chance the other first year would know who she was talking about. "What sort of thing do you do?" She began to eat as she waited for Waverly to answer.
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Waverly
January 11, 2012 7:53 PM
And there's so much to do now by Waverly
Waverly smiled at Jade. Though she hadn't warmed up to her roommate at first, Waverly forgave her for playing tricks on her only a week or so after her first day of school. Now that Waverly had been surrounded by magic for a term at school, she was getting used to it and the people. So far, she loved her peers, and she loved having a roommate. It wasn't different from rooming with her sister at home. Ah, poor Wendy must miss her.Waverly hadn't exactly paid attention to the Hippogriff races. She hardly knew what a hippogriff was. She remembered skimming over a section on hippogriffs during her magical creatures hunt in the library previously, but it hadn't been interesting enough. Then, she had been much more interested in searching for unicorns and dragons and other creatures that she had only read about before in fairy tales.
"Hippogriff racing sounds dangerous," she said, pretending she knew what a hippogriff was. It could be the friendliest creature ever for all she knew. Anyway, horseback racing was dangerous, she knew that much, and if a hippogriff was anything like a horse, Jade could get thrown off! But maybe hippogriff racing was common enough for magical people to be used to it? Waverly made a note to look up hippogriffs later.
"I bake," she told Jade, "usually with my mom, but there isn't a baking contest or anything, so I'll probably make a craft too. I'm still thinking of what kind of craft to make." Waverly thought for a moment. She had made lots of crafts before with her mom during her mom's free time, and there had been a lot of cutting and pasting involved. She couldn't knit or sew or anything like that. Waverly's green eyes suddenly lit up. "I know! I could make a house." She smiled, now excited as the idea continued to form in her brain. "I guess I'd need cardboard, and I don't know where I could get that, and lots of tape and stuff, and paper..." Waverly wasn't sure where exactly she could get supplies, but maybe there was an art room or something.
"You could help me too, if you want, if you're not busy preparing to race with hippogriffs." Waverly almost beamed, her idea was exciting her so. "I want to get started on it right now," she laughed. "New ideas always excite me." She was pretty sure Jade was aware of that by now.
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Jade
January 24, 2012 10:59 AM
And so many posts to write! by Jade
When waverly declared that she baked, Jade decided there were a lot more useless hobbies her roomate could have declared. As far as crafting pasttimes went, baking had to be near the top spot in terms of having some sort of function: its outcome was usually edible. In fact, Jade believed that was the general point of baking. So she nodded appreciatively of Waverly's craft - if her roomate was going to be making cake and pastries on a regular basis then Jade wouldn't mind being a part of that. The tasting part, naturally.Of course, the logic didn't stick around long, which was a trend Jade had noticed with Waverly (admittedly some of it had less to do with logic than it did with familiarity of the magical world, but Jade had already decided that Waverly wasn't the sharpest quill in the box. Now she was talking about making a house out of cardboard and glue. Jade stopped eating just long enough to look at Waverly as though her brain had been replaced by a flobberworm (which, considering what was coming out of the other girls' mouth, might have been a real possibility).
At the offer that Jade could help if she wanted, the first year looked pointedly at her roomate, and asked, "Why would you need tape and stuff? Why don't you just use a sticking charm?" Honestly, she knew Waverly grew up with Muggles, but she had spent the past few months living with other young witches and wizards. She really ought to start picking up on these things by now. Then again, perhaps the winter vacation had sent her back to square one. Interested, Jade asked, "Did you just forget about being a witch when you were at home with your family?" If she sounded scathing, it was unintentional - she didn't really know a whole lot about this bizarre race called Muggles, and Waverly could maybe tell her a bit to help her understand.
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Waverly
January 28, 2012 2:32 PM
I'll try to imagine that by Waverly
Waverly hadn't thought of using a sticking charm. Actually, she hadn't really thought of using magic. She had been so wrapped up in the idea of the crafts her family had done during rainy days, that she had completely forgotten about it. "No," she said adamantly to Jade's accusation. "I just...didn't think about it. My family and I made crafts during rainy days when my mom's bakery wasn't open. They can't do magic, obviously, and it was before I knew I was a witch." Calling herself a witch still made her smile a little, and she tried not to let her childish delight show. She was almost twelve for goodness sake. She had to be more mature. Or pretend to be, anyway."I like doing things the Muggle way a lot of the time just because I'm used to it. It's still kind of weird for me because I grew up most of my life without magic. Doing some things without magic just reminds me of home." She paused. "Though I guess building a cardboard house would be easier with magic." She smiled at her roommate. She could understand why some people wouldn't understand, but she was sure that if they were thrown into a place where they couldn't use magic, they would be helpless. Waverly still felt like she had the best of both worlds, and she ate some more of her food.
"I wanted to tell you, my mom's going to send me some banana nut bread later this week if you want to have some! It's really good, and it's one of my favorites." She looked at Jade. "You're not allergic to nuts or anything, are you?" She hoped not. Waverly really had to get back to baking if she wanted to start a baking club someday, though she still had to think more on it.
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Jade
February 10, 2012 9:48 AM
It'll happen to you one day... by Jade
Jade had to admit that just being used to the Muggle way of doing things was probably a good excuse for a first year to neglect to contemplate the magical option. It took her a while sometimes to remember she'd gotten shoes with fewer holes in, and she'd get wet feet because she was just used to her old pair, so she figured she could understand where Waverly was coming from.Either way, Jade was easily distracted by the mention of food. Homemade banana bread, now that could be awesome. Her own mom was a pretty good cook, and she knew how to make a meal last all week by changing this and that about it. Food never got thrown out in the Owen household. On the off-chance that one of the children hadn't eaten it before it started to look past its best, Mrs Owen always knew someway to salvage the spoling food and make it taste phenomenal. Banana bread was one of her favorites, too.
"I'm not allergic to anything," Jade eagerly replied. Well, she'd come out in a funny red rash that one time she'd reluctantly allowed Josephine to put make-up on her, but the less said about that nightmarish episode, the better. "I'll gladly eat anything your mom has to send," she added with a genuine grin. She knew she had one of those constitutions that enabled her to eat whatever she liked and simply grow upwards rather than out... a trait her sister envied, as Josephine tended to do the opposite.
Finishing up the savoury portion of her meal, Jade reached for some cupcakes and ice cream, forgoing the fresh fruit for more sugary alternatives. "Does you mom send stuff often? she resumed the conversation with Waverly. They shared a room, true enough, but that didn't mean Jade ever actually paid attention to what was going on.
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It'll happen to you one day...
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Waverly
February 12, 2012 4:02 PM
Alright, I can feel it happening already by Waverly
Waverly was glad that her roommate was interested now in the prospect of homemade food. As much as Waverly liked to hoard her food now that it wasn't as available as before, she liked sharing too. Especially sharing food that was just so good. Partially why she wanted a bakery and a baking club.It was funny that Jade hadn't really paid attention to Waverly's packages that usually came at least once every three weeks. It was never a huge package, but Waverly made such a big deal out of it she didn't know who didn't know. Well, usually it was at the owlery where she let loose her excitement. Waverly never was good at keeping her excitement at bay.
"She sends stuff every three weeks," she said happily. "Sometimes the owls might get in and peck at the bread or whatever she sends, but it's usually in good condition. My mom's learned to wrap up the packages tighter." Ideas popped into Waverly's head for her craft project, but she brushed them aside for later contemplation. "Do you ever get packages from home?" she asked, wondering if she was the only one. It was funny how little they really knew of each others' lives, being roommates and all. Waverly definitely wanted to change that.
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