OMG. @__@
I saw Iron Man!
Friday was an especially cool day filled with Thai Food and wandering through Xintiandi, HAAGAN DAAZ ICE CREAM (I can never go back to Vanilla now that I've experienced one scoop of Butter Pecan and one scoop of Strawberry cheesecake ice cream) and a free puppy** and IRON MAN!
Backing up now. 'Kay, Jo and I usually go out to dinner every couple of weeks to hash out the new tests and textbooks (we're worked out Book 10 last night). Jo gets paid to work on the books and I don't, which is why she pays for dinner and is very damn generous of her considering the sheer time she puts into the darn things while I only spend about 2 hours every two weeks, but whatever.
I walked to to the office after my last class on Friday and we took a taxi from there to Xintiandi which is a gorgeous part of Shanghai - very wealthy, very exclusive, tons of little shops and filled with history and old buildings. We window-shopped for a while, bought our tickets to see Iron Man at the Ume theater (a lovely theater that's never crowded and has beautifully clean bathrooms and floors - seriously, the floors are SPOTLESS in the THEATER) and had dinner at Simply Thai were we enjoyed beef curry, pad thai, satay (OMG SO GOOD) veggies, and washed down with White Sangria's and Chingdao.
We then made a pilgrimage to the Haagan Daaz restaurant. Thank god they are so far from my home. That ice cream should be illegal. I must have more.
....and they're building a Coldstone Creamery across from it. ;__; Not fair! How can I choose????
*ahem* So then we went on to see IRON MAN! OMG, OMG, Robert Downey jr was a littler more spastic as Tony Stark then I thought Tony should be (definitely not that hyper in the comics) but the PLOT! So much reference to the CANON UNIVERSE! Unlike the triple X-men travesties and the Incredible Hulk movie that was so bad it was hilarious, this one ranked up there with SPIDER-MAN. Maybe even SURPASSED IT. OMG.
Want the DVD. *whines* Want, want, want, want, WANT.
I write when the world is a shiny place. Have some more Kirikam goodness mixed with Aishiteruze Baby. :D
Title: Acting
Author: Stormy1x2 (traveling_storm)
Rating: G
Word Count: 1173
Notes: Crossover with Aishiteruze Baby, LGO-verse. Story number two in the arc now known as 'Class Two'. Takes place directly after 'Grade Two, Class Two and is set two years after LGO (Life Goes On). Michiko (8) is in grade 2, Sachiko (10) is in grade 4, and Kamio (16) in his second year at Rikkai High (grade 10).
Warning: Though this fic series is part of the LGO-verse which features an established KiriKam (Kirihara/Kamio) pairing, this fic only mentions Akira with no actual appearances. Akaya and Kirihara WILL appear in this series but this is all scene setting for now. :D
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“Now remember,” Koizumi-sensei said, looking around the classroom. “Each group will pick a habit from the list and act it out, showing both the good and bad sides. For example, how can we act out 'littering'?” Michiko raised her hand timidly, and Koizumi-sensei smiled at her. “Yes, Michiko-chan?”
“Someone can throw garbage on the floor. That's the bad habit,” she said quietly.
Koizumi-sensei nodded. “And the good habit?”
Yuzuyu-chan waved her hand. “Another person can pick up the garbage,” she said. “They can put it in the bin, and tell the bad person they shouldn't put it on the ground.”
“Very good!” Koizumi-sensei clapped her hands. “Okay groups, when you've decided what habit you want to do, come and tell me. Then you have the rest of the class to practice what your group is going to do. Tomorrow, we'll act them out.”
“I like the 'littering' one,” Ken said. “That's easy for us to do.”
“I am not picking up garbage,” Marika snorted, folding her arms. “If we do that, I get to be the person telling the other one not to do it. There's four of us - someone else can pick up garbage.”
“I'll do it,” Michiko volunteered. “I don't mind.”
“That means me and Ken-kun will be the ones littering,” Yuzuyu said with a small frown. “I don't like littering.”
“It's not like we're really littering,” Ken-kun told her reassuringly. “They're gonna be teaching us the good thing to do, remember?”
Yuzuyu nodded. “Okay. As long as we don't really litter.”
Marika rolled her eyes. “Duh, Yuzuyu-chan. We're acting. It's not real.” Her eyes went wide as she stared off into the distance. “I wonder what I should wear for tomorrow when we act in front of the class?”
Ken, Yuzuyu and Michiko looked at each other and giggled.
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“Mmm... this chocolate bar is delicious!” Yuzuyu said, pretending to take a bite out of her 'chocolate bar' - which was a ruler covered with paper that had been colored brown. A second piece of blue paper had been wrapped around it, and she held it in her hand as she looked around. “I don't see a bin.”
“That's okay,” Ken said. He was pretending to drink from an empty juice box he'd rescued from the recycling bin. “Just throw it on the ground. No one will care.” He threw his box on the floor as an example, and Yuzuyu followed suit.
“Stop!” commanded Marika. She winked cheekily, and crossed her arms, extending her pinky and index fingers. “In the name of the recycling, I'll punish you!”
“Marika-chan,” Ken groaned. “Stick to what we planned.”
“Mine is so much more interesting,” she said pouting, but she rolled her eyes and obediently recited the lines they'd decided on earlier. “You shouldn't throw your garbage on the ground.”
“Yeah,” Michiko said, scurrying forward to pick up the juice box and the chocolate 'wrapper'. “If there's no bin close by, you should carry your garbage with you until you find one.”
“I still say that's unsanitary,” Marika huffed quietly.
“Marika-chan!”
“Fine, fine... “
“But it's just one box and one paper,” Yuzuyu stated with a puzzled look on her face.
“Yes, but think what would happen if everyone did that,” Marika lectured. She waggled her finger at the two litterbugs. “If everyone who had just 'one paper' and just 'one box' put it on the ground...”
“..The world would quickly be a very dirty place,” Michiko finished. She handed the litter back to Yuzuyu and Ken, who accepted them with guilty looks. “Throw it in the bin.”
“Okay, we will,” Yuzuyu said quietly.
“We're sorry,” Ken added contritely. “We won't litter again.”
All four of them bowed automatically as they finished their rehearsal. Michiko straightened, smiling at the group. “I think that looked pretty good,” she said.
“I agree,” came a voice from behind them. The four of them looked to see Koizumi-sensei smiling at them. “I was watching you practice. I think you'll do a very good job tomorrow. And maybe you can show this off at the next Open Class so your parents and family members can see it too.”
Marika preened. “My mother says I'm a natural actress,” she declared. “Of course, my group is going to be the best tomorrow.”
Ken poked her in the arm. “Your group?”
“Yes!”
Michiko frowned. Next week would be her first Open Class. An Open Class was when family members were invited to watch the class, and sometimes even participate. 'Kira-nii had class during the day. “I don't know if my brother can make it,” she said sadly.
Marika looked confused. “So? Ask someone else in your family to come.”
Michiko shrank into her seat. Yuzuyu and Ken exchanged a quick glance, and then Yuzuyu sent a reproving look at Marika. “Marika-chan, that's not nice,” she said. “Not everyone has the same kind of family you do.” She looked at Michiko. “I know how you feel, Michiko-chan. My brother has class too. My aunt, or my grandparents, or even Reiko-nii-sama might be able to come, but it won't be the same if Kippei-nii doesn't.”
“Kippei-san...” Marika said dreamily. “Yuzuyu-chan, you have to make Kippei-san come to Open Class. You have to!”
“'Kira-nii is really busy,” Michiko said slowly. “It takes him an hour to get to school on the bus, and he's on the high school tennis team, so he has lots of practices. If he misses one, his Buchou might get angry.”
“That's okay,” Ken said. “Not everyone is going to have someone there. Some people in the class don't have grandparents, and their parents can't come to all of them because they have to work.”
“But it's my first Open Class,” Michiko protested. There had been no Open Classes for class five, or the special classes she'd always been placed in before. “I've never been in one before.”
“Never?” Marika looked astonished. Her brows furrowed. “Then you tell your brother he has to come!”
“But--” Michiko was torn.
Yuzuyu came to the rescue. “It's okay, Michiko-chan,” she said. “You can share Kippei-nii for the day. I don't mind.”
Michiko smiled at her. “Really?”
“Yup!” Yuzuyu smiled back. “I know he'll come. Last time, Reiko-nii-sama told him to skip class to come. I think she'll do it again. And if your brother does come after all, then that's good too, right?”
“Yeah!”
“I think we should practice again,” Ken said, butting in. “We want to look good tomorrow, and in the Open Class. Marika-chan--” he turned to face the other girl. “No more Sailor Moon this time!”
“So boring,” Marika complained.
Michiko grinned as Yuzuyu and Ken rolled their eyes good-naturedly at Marika's complaint, and obediently moved back into her position to practice again. She would do her best, and if Kira-nii wound up coming to the Open Class after all, he'd see her group shine brighter than any of the others. She waited as Yuzuyu held up her 'chocolate bar' and practice began again.
“Mmm... this chocolate is delicious....”
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End
End Notes: This is actually a real assignment I gave my grade 3's to act out in English class, and the skit performed by Michi and company was done by group 3. :D
(**by the way, the whole free puppy thing? When we bought our tickets, the lady gave us each a free puppy plushy - they're giving away 12 different ones, one for each month for the year, and this month is PUPPIES!! Next month is an alligator, we must go back)
Friday was an especially cool day filled with Thai Food and wandering through Xintiandi, HAAGAN DAAZ ICE CREAM (I can never go back to Vanilla now that I've experienced one scoop of Butter Pecan and one scoop of Strawberry cheesecake ice cream) and a free puppy** and IRON MAN!
Backing up now. 'Kay, Jo and I usually go out to dinner every couple of weeks to hash out the new tests and textbooks (we're worked out Book 10 last night). Jo gets paid to work on the books and I don't, which is why she pays for dinner and is very damn generous of her considering the sheer time she puts into the darn things while I only spend about 2 hours every two weeks, but whatever.
I walked to to the office after my last class on Friday and we took a taxi from there to Xintiandi which is a gorgeous part of Shanghai - very wealthy, very exclusive, tons of little shops and filled with history and old buildings. We window-shopped for a while, bought our tickets to see Iron Man at the Ume theater (a lovely theater that's never crowded and has beautifully clean bathrooms and floors - seriously, the floors are SPOTLESS in the THEATER) and had dinner at Simply Thai were we enjoyed beef curry, pad thai, satay (OMG SO GOOD) veggies, and washed down with White Sangria's and Chingdao.
We then made a pilgrimage to the Haagan Daaz restaurant. Thank god they are so far from my home. That ice cream should be illegal. I must have more.
....and they're building a Coldstone Creamery across from it. ;__; Not fair! How can I choose????
*ahem* So then we went on to see IRON MAN! OMG, OMG, Robert Downey jr was a littler more spastic as Tony Stark then I thought Tony should be (definitely not that hyper in the comics) but the PLOT! So much reference to the CANON UNIVERSE! Unlike the triple X-men travesties and the Incredible Hulk movie that was so bad it was hilarious, this one ranked up there with SPIDER-MAN. Maybe even SURPASSED IT. OMG.
Want the DVD. *whines* Want, want, want, want, WANT.
I write when the world is a shiny place. Have some more Kirikam goodness mixed with Aishiteruze Baby. :D
Title: Acting
Author: Stormy1x2 (traveling_storm)
Rating: G
Word Count: 1173
Notes: Crossover with Aishiteruze Baby, LGO-verse. Story number two in the arc now known as 'Class Two'. Takes place directly after 'Grade Two, Class Two and is set two years after LGO (Life Goes On). Michiko (8) is in grade 2, Sachiko (10) is in grade 4, and Kamio (16) in his second year at Rikkai High (grade 10).
Warning: Though this fic series is part of the LGO-verse which features an established KiriKam (Kirihara/Kamio) pairing, this fic only mentions Akira with no actual appearances. Akaya and Kirihara WILL appear in this series but this is all scene setting for now. :D
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“Now remember,” Koizumi-sensei said, looking around the classroom. “Each group will pick a habit from the list and act it out, showing both the good and bad sides. For example, how can we act out 'littering'?” Michiko raised her hand timidly, and Koizumi-sensei smiled at her. “Yes, Michiko-chan?”
“Someone can throw garbage on the floor. That's the bad habit,” she said quietly.
Koizumi-sensei nodded. “And the good habit?”
Yuzuyu-chan waved her hand. “Another person can pick up the garbage,” she said. “They can put it in the bin, and tell the bad person they shouldn't put it on the ground.”
“Very good!” Koizumi-sensei clapped her hands. “Okay groups, when you've decided what habit you want to do, come and tell me. Then you have the rest of the class to practice what your group is going to do. Tomorrow, we'll act them out.”
“I like the 'littering' one,” Ken said. “That's easy for us to do.”
“I am not picking up garbage,” Marika snorted, folding her arms. “If we do that, I get to be the person telling the other one not to do it. There's four of us - someone else can pick up garbage.”
“I'll do it,” Michiko volunteered. “I don't mind.”
“That means me and Ken-kun will be the ones littering,” Yuzuyu said with a small frown. “I don't like littering.”
“It's not like we're really littering,” Ken-kun told her reassuringly. “They're gonna be teaching us the good thing to do, remember?”
Yuzuyu nodded. “Okay. As long as we don't really litter.”
Marika rolled her eyes. “Duh, Yuzuyu-chan. We're acting. It's not real.” Her eyes went wide as she stared off into the distance. “I wonder what I should wear for tomorrow when we act in front of the class?”
Ken, Yuzuyu and Michiko looked at each other and giggled.
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“Mmm... this chocolate bar is delicious!” Yuzuyu said, pretending to take a bite out of her 'chocolate bar' - which was a ruler covered with paper that had been colored brown. A second piece of blue paper had been wrapped around it, and she held it in her hand as she looked around. “I don't see a bin.”
“That's okay,” Ken said. He was pretending to drink from an empty juice box he'd rescued from the recycling bin. “Just throw it on the ground. No one will care.” He threw his box on the floor as an example, and Yuzuyu followed suit.
“Stop!” commanded Marika. She winked cheekily, and crossed her arms, extending her pinky and index fingers. “In the name of the recycling, I'll punish you!”
“Marika-chan,” Ken groaned. “Stick to what we planned.”
“Mine is so much more interesting,” she said pouting, but she rolled her eyes and obediently recited the lines they'd decided on earlier. “You shouldn't throw your garbage on the ground.”
“Yeah,” Michiko said, scurrying forward to pick up the juice box and the chocolate 'wrapper'. “If there's no bin close by, you should carry your garbage with you until you find one.”
“I still say that's unsanitary,” Marika huffed quietly.
“Marika-chan!”
“Fine, fine... “
“But it's just one box and one paper,” Yuzuyu stated with a puzzled look on her face.
“Yes, but think what would happen if everyone did that,” Marika lectured. She waggled her finger at the two litterbugs. “If everyone who had just 'one paper' and just 'one box' put it on the ground...”
“..The world would quickly be a very dirty place,” Michiko finished. She handed the litter back to Yuzuyu and Ken, who accepted them with guilty looks. “Throw it in the bin.”
“Okay, we will,” Yuzuyu said quietly.
“We're sorry,” Ken added contritely. “We won't litter again.”
All four of them bowed automatically as they finished their rehearsal. Michiko straightened, smiling at the group. “I think that looked pretty good,” she said.
“I agree,” came a voice from behind them. The four of them looked to see Koizumi-sensei smiling at them. “I was watching you practice. I think you'll do a very good job tomorrow. And maybe you can show this off at the next Open Class so your parents and family members can see it too.”
Marika preened. “My mother says I'm a natural actress,” she declared. “Of course, my group is going to be the best tomorrow.”
Ken poked her in the arm. “Your group?”
“Yes!”
Michiko frowned. Next week would be her first Open Class. An Open Class was when family members were invited to watch the class, and sometimes even participate. 'Kira-nii had class during the day. “I don't know if my brother can make it,” she said sadly.
Marika looked confused. “So? Ask someone else in your family to come.”
Michiko shrank into her seat. Yuzuyu and Ken exchanged a quick glance, and then Yuzuyu sent a reproving look at Marika. “Marika-chan, that's not nice,” she said. “Not everyone has the same kind of family you do.” She looked at Michiko. “I know how you feel, Michiko-chan. My brother has class too. My aunt, or my grandparents, or even Reiko-nii-sama might be able to come, but it won't be the same if Kippei-nii doesn't.”
“Kippei-san...” Marika said dreamily. “Yuzuyu-chan, you have to make Kippei-san come to Open Class. You have to!”
“'Kira-nii is really busy,” Michiko said slowly. “It takes him an hour to get to school on the bus, and he's on the high school tennis team, so he has lots of practices. If he misses one, his Buchou might get angry.”
“That's okay,” Ken said. “Not everyone is going to have someone there. Some people in the class don't have grandparents, and their parents can't come to all of them because they have to work.”
“But it's my first Open Class,” Michiko protested. There had been no Open Classes for class five, or the special classes she'd always been placed in before. “I've never been in one before.”
“Never?” Marika looked astonished. Her brows furrowed. “Then you tell your brother he has to come!”
“But--” Michiko was torn.
Yuzuyu came to the rescue. “It's okay, Michiko-chan,” she said. “You can share Kippei-nii for the day. I don't mind.”
Michiko smiled at her. “Really?”
“Yup!” Yuzuyu smiled back. “I know he'll come. Last time, Reiko-nii-sama told him to skip class to come. I think she'll do it again. And if your brother does come after all, then that's good too, right?”
“Yeah!”
“I think we should practice again,” Ken said, butting in. “We want to look good tomorrow, and in the Open Class. Marika-chan--” he turned to face the other girl. “No more Sailor Moon this time!”
“So boring,” Marika complained.
Michiko grinned as Yuzuyu and Ken rolled their eyes good-naturedly at Marika's complaint, and obediently moved back into her position to practice again. She would do her best, and if Kira-nii wound up coming to the Open Class after all, he'd see her group shine brighter than any of the others. She waited as Yuzuyu held up her 'chocolate bar' and practice began again.
“Mmm... this chocolate is delicious....”
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End
End Notes: This is actually a real assignment I gave my grade 3's to act out in English class, and the skit performed by Michi and company was done by group 3. :D
(**by the way, the whole free puppy thing? When we bought our tickets, the lady gave us each a free puppy plushy - they're giving away 12 different ones, one for each month for the year, and this month is PUPPIES!! Next month is an alligator, we must go back)