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[thenormalsquint]

I know we're all preoccupied with Creeper McCreeperson breathing heavily on the network, but we all still have to live here on a daily basis and there's one thing I think we tend to overlook: the kids. What are you little guys doing all day? We grownups have our jobs, but really, I'm hoping none of you are getting into trouble.

Which leads me to ask, why isn't there some type of school or daycare or organized activities for the kids? Heck, not only them, but for the adults who don't work or who'd rather not work in any of the departments and need something to do. Blake has his basketball thing and I can easily teach art and computers, maybe a little science, and I'm sure a handful of others have a bunch of skills that can be useful. Maybe some reading classes? Math? General how to use today's technology if you're from the Middle Ages?

So who's interested? Don't have me talking to the void about idle hands being the Devil's toys.



[ooc: This is me gauging interest on starting some educational type stuff for both kids and adults? Nothing is required or formal. Think of it as a drop-in center when they are bored and looking for things to get into. If there is some people wanting in on this, I'll post something in the OOC comm in a day or so.]

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[thenormalsquint]

Okay, big guy. You don't have to learn how to read if you already know how. I can't teach you fighting, though. I don't know how to fight.

[rickon]

get a fighter and i will think maybe i will go
i wont if there is no fighting

[thenormalsquint]

Why the big deal about fighting? Isn't there anything else you would like to do? Drawing maybe? Music?

[rickon]

no i am not a minstrel
i dont need help to draw

things i like to do

fight

eat

explore

[thenormalsquint]

But do you know how to cook the things you like to eat?

[rickon]

im not to make fires bran said

[thenormalsquint]

You don't have to make the fire. An adult can help with that part and supervise.

[rickon]

i want to do it by my self

[thenormalsquint]

But somebody has to teach you how first.

[rickon]

i know what supervise means
it does not mean i get to do it all by my self

[thenormalsquint]

Not until you take some lessons first. That's how these things work.

[rickon]

its not a lesson if i can not touch the fires and cook the food

its not a lesson to watch a grown up make food

i want to do it

[thenormalsquint]

You want to touch fire? You do know what happens when you touch fires, right?

Also, what I meant was that a grown up would make the fire for you and watch you cook. They wouldn't do anything else unless you asked for help or got into trouble, so technically, you're still doing it by yourself. Do you know how to chop? Stir? Boil? Fry? Anything like that, though?

[rickon]

i can stab and cut
i do not have a chopping knife
i can stir with a spoon or handle or i can mash things with my hands

[thenormalsquint]

Well, that's a start. Do you want to make cookies?

[rickon]

i want to make cakes

lemon cakes


[Yep, he's sold on this idea now. School: a place for eating cake.]

[thenormalsquint]

Lemon cakes? Why lemon cakes?

[rickon]

they are my sisters favorite

[Said sister being Sansa, whose departure Rickon doesn't yet know about at the time of this conversation ...]

[thenormalsquint]

Oh, well, then lemon cakes it is. Do you have a recipe?

[rickon]

recipe for lemon cakes


butter
flowr
honey
lemons
hen egg

dont put in the shell of the egg

[thenormalsquint]

Flour.

And not unless you want crunchy lemon cakes.

[rickon]

all right it is flour

the recipe is good any way

[thenormalsquint]

I believe you. I'll meet you in the 10th floor kitchen.