Let us craft things from pieces of tree.

[golonghorns]

Who: Joel and anyone who wants to learn how to Shop the Wood.
What: Wood shop, wood shop. Let's all learn to Carpentry.
Where: Shop class.
When: Friday afternoon.
Warnings: It's wood shop. So. Uh. Don't step on any nails.

Joel had picked Friday Afternoon very specifically for this class. So far as he was concerned having a practical, hands on class at the end of a busy week full of books and words and numbers and stuff was a blessing for poor, hard done by high schoolers with more energy than sense.

Incidentally, that was before he'd discovered that the curriculum here was as likely to involve running around in simulated environments shooting things as it was long division and book reports.

Despite carpentry not being quite as incredible as anything involving the stadium, he had to have at least some faith that some kids would want to learn how to make things. And he'd picked out a pretty simple first project to see where everyone was at in terms of prior knowledge.

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Attendance.

[golonghorns]

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Well, his life may be in shambles right now, but if there was one thing about it he could work on fixing... it might as well be his goal to be a carpenter someday. It sort of made him feel at peace, being around all this wood and all these tools. A distraction from his depression that would help him develop skills he could use for a hopeful future. If he wanted to build houses later on, he might as well start with one for birds.

[golonghorns]

....was that kid's hair intentionally modeled after corn on the cob?

What was it with all the strange hair at this school. Blue hair, dreadlocks that defied gravity, and now hair modeled on the noble sweetcorn.

Well. It wasn't Joel's job to offer stylistic advice. He was here to teach wood working. So long as Mondo didn't get his hair caught in the belt sander, they'd be fine.

"Name?" he asked.

[wheresmydamntea]

Non-student alert. No use working at a school if you don't learn things. Also, carpentry could totally be used in rocket building. Cid stood in the back, leaning on a short shelf.

[golonghorns]

This guy looked a little old to be a student. But at least his hair was pretty normal.

"Hey." Joel said, walking over. "Come to check out the class?"

[flowerofmtsilver]

Maybe Vinnie wasn't crazy fond of the idea of cutting down trees, but he could acknowledge that it would always be a resource people needed. Done wisely, it didn't have to be a problem. Hopefully, the class would help people put the wood to good use - and admittedly, he did want to get some new planters for the greenhouse. Those couldn't be too hard to make, right?

Anyway, Joel has one student whose head looks halfway towards being a plant, and smells like a lovely bouquet.

[golonghorns]

Green hair this time? Well, he was going to have to stop being surprised by this stuff sooner or later. Better he see all the colors of the rainbow now and get it over with.

...kid had nice taste in cologne, though. He smelled good.

"Hey. Name?" he asked, standing there with his official roll taking clipboard.

[cplusplus]

As he had promised during their conversation over the network, Chihiro had come and attend wood shop. He was mostly comfortable in his skin, it seemed like it hadn't occurred to him that thanks to his preference in text over the network, Joel will most certainly not recognize this rather soft-looking young boy.

[golonghorns]

No, Joel had no idea who the little guy was. But that was OK. He'd find out soon enough.

"Name?" he asked, walking over with his roll call clipboard. Man, this fella might have issues with some of the bigger pieces of equipment. It would be best to keep a close eye on him.

Re: Attendance.

[crystal_ballin]

Hagakure takes afternoon classes because of his sleep schedule.

Hagakure is actually good with tools.

Hagakure has the chance to do not do poorly in this class.

That's amazing.

[golonghorns]

"Hagakure." Joel said with a nod. He still wasn't sure what to make of this kid. But hopefully he was a good student. Joel noted his name down.

"Good to see you in my class."

Re: Attendance.

[operatingbuddy]

A robotman was sitting in Joel's class.

It was ready to assimilate data.

Re: Attendance.

[golonghorns]

"Huh. Don't rightly know what this is..." Joel said, bending over to examine the robot.

"Didn't request any additional equipment." he mumbled to himself, grabbing one of R.O.B.s hands and looking at it. What WAS this thing? Some kind of fancy vice or something? Considering the level of technology in the stadium, he shouldn't be surprised that there were crazy advanced tools on offer as well. He just had no idea how to USE this thing.

Project #1 - Birdhouse.

[golonghorns]

Once everyone had settled in, Joel listed off all the basic safety requirements for working in the class. No horseplay, no messing around with the tools, no pointing nail guns at anyone because they WILL take an eye out if you're not careful I tell you what.

Then came a brief demonstration of their intended project.

"All the pieces have been pre cut so you don't have to worry about usin' too many tools if you're not real comfortable with them. We'll start going over that stuff next lesson."

And he'll be walking around checking on people's progress throughout the class, of course.

[wheresmydamntea]

Cid had done carpentry before, but not in a long while. Engineering had some similarities though. Putting stuff together, that he could do. Slowly and methodically he adds piece to piece. A nail here, some wood glue there. It's not creative, but it's a birdhouse.

[golonghorns]

For this particular project, creativity was hardly a prerequisite.

"Looks solid."

[cplusplus]

Well, he was familiar with power tools himself, but more to ones that were made to modify a circuitry board without much harm. To the board that is, safety on the user mostly depends on how careful they are with delicate tools, after all.

So, his main trouble was mostly hammering down the nails, but otherwise, it seemed like it came out rather decent if ready to fall apart at any moment.

[golonghorns]

Joel had kept a fairly close watch on Chihiro to make sure nothing went awry with hammer and nails. It was a simple project and only required minimal tool use, really. But still. Better to keep a close watch and not need to than the other way around.

He walked over and took a look at the boy's house.

"How do you think you did?" he asked.

[crystal_ballin]

Hagakure looks down at the wood in front of him.

"I sort of want to build a larger birdhouse," he said to himself. "Sensei! Sensei! Can I build a larger birdhouse?"

[golonghorns]

"No." came Joel's simple reply. And he almost left it at that. Buuuut.... well. At least the kid was showing some enthusiasm for the project.

"Today isn't about bein' creative. This is just a simple test run so I can see how you all stack up, experience wise. We're gonna be doin' individual projects later."

Re: Project #1 - Birdhouse.

[operatingbuddy]

R.O.B. had built simple wooden constructs before. Knuckles had shown him how before. So he knew his way around a hammer and nails, far better with them now than he had during that somewhat disastrous carpentry session.

He began to assemble his birdhouse with machine-like precision. Because, you know, he's a machine.

Questions or Lurkers.

[golonghorns]

Got queries related to the curriculum? Go right ahead.

Are you a non-student, checking up on the new guy and making sure he's not using his powers of carpentry for evil?

Or do you just want to chat?

This is where all that stuff goes.

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Hello Joel, a man in the back had been watching you work and teach them. It was actually entertaining in a good way.

[planking]

Did somebody say large planks of wood

Well, okay, nobody said that, but Flint is here regardless.

"Uh, I think I misplaced my hammer, mind if I borrow one out of the shop real quick?"

[butterbelieveamanspromise]

Just as Joel asked of him, Mondo hung around after class and waited until he was ready to have a chat. When everything quieted down, he made his approach.

"So... what'd you wanna have a word with me about?" he started.