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Lorek found himself rather happy to have spent the time out on the beach. He had never been to the beach before and had never imagined it would be so much fun! He smiled just thinking about everything and quickly jotted down a paragraph for his assignment.

My favorite part of the beach was the waves! I had a fun time learning how to swim and I eventually got to try jumping them! It was really fun to be submerged in it and to see the ripples. I got to watch the sun make colors on the surface of the water. I would love to go again someday! It was really fun! I might even have to go swimming in a lake or something.

Pyxi beamed as it came time to write their thoughts on the beach. They had so much fun that they couldn't wait to ask their mother to go again.

My favorite thing about the beach were the animals! I saw some cute little crabs scuttling around the beach and I saw a starfish in a little pond thing filled with rocks and barnacles. But I really liked how it seemed to go on forever. I wish I could have gone swimming, but I'm worried about what too much salt water would do to my leaves.

The little naga shifted uncomfortably in her seat. She didn't have the best time at the beach, so she wasn't quite sure what to write about at first. But she had to get it done. She set her pencil to the paper and began.

I liked the beach. The sand reminded me of my old home, but it wasn't my favorite part. My favorite part of the day was when Mys. Grey finally got that crab off of me. I was really scared, so it was a relief to get it off. I just don't have much good luck. But thank you for taking us!

After such a fun outing at the beach, the neko was almost a little sad to return to normal classes. There was definitely nothing that would beat that field trip! As she slid into her seat and listened to their assignment, she was thrilled. Writing about how much fun the beach was? Amazing! How was she going to pick just one thing as he favorite though? Maybe this was going to be harder than she thought. Nefertiti nervously nibbled on her eraser, trying to think about what she could write.

'My favorite thing about the trip? It's really hard to pick just one thing, but if I had to pick just one. It would probably be all of the sand! It's just so much fun to play in and it feels so nice on your feet! Except when it's too hot! That's not very fun at all! It wasn't though, so that's what I liked the best! Playing in the sand!'

School was so unfair. One minute you're at a beautiful beach and there's absolutely no school work and the next...you were sitting in a stuffy room, in a dingy chair, asking to write things. Rasia leaned into her arm, smooshing her cheek and sighing loudly. This was stupid. Why couldn't just just go back to the beach instead of sitting here in the classroom?

'Obviously my favorite part of going on that trip was all the bathing suits I brought with me! I looked so good in all of them. It was so hard for me to choose which ones I'd bring with me, but in the end I think I made the right choices! I also really liked sun bathing, even though it dried my skin out quicker, I just felt like such a movie star when I was laying there with my sunglasses on!'

Samhain had to hide a smile; going out star gazing had to be the best transfer from temporary to full time teacher assignment ever. Samhain had always loved going out star gazing and when he was constantly out working when he was younger he would often spend nights calming down by going out to watch the stars. So of course he was totally on board with the assignment. Luckily he came with his own fur so it was an easy thing to transfer over to something a bit more substantial for the lack of temperature. He also brought a pair of binoculars. There were only so many telescopes after all and while he was waiting his turn he could use the binoculars. They weren’t the best but they did some times work.

Laying a blanket out on the grass he quickly flopped down on it and started naming off all the constellations that he could find. There were even a couple shooting stars although he always caught the very end of them so it wasn’t long enough to try making a wish. Personally it was one of the best fieldtrips he had gone on.

UGH, a field trip? To the beach? The beach was hardly something that Aurabelle was looking forward to--they had been to the beach plenty of times in Above. Here in Below, it was likely to be less sunny--which was one of the better things about the beach--and there would be no boardwalk amusement park, which was the best thing about beaches in general. And they had homework. The teacher had practically ordered them to enjoy themselves! How dare she?! She couldn't boss Aura around, nosirree!

So Aura spent most of the day perched on a rock, poking inquisitive crabs and watching the teacher scold some dumb Bakeneko kid who kept trying to swim. It was obvious that the kid didn't know how, which just made it all the sillier. Aura took a lock of their own hair and chewed on it thoughtfully. They would have to contact that kid when they got home...they were pretty sure it was the kid from the festival.

When they got back to school, Aura did indeed keep an eye on the other kid--they were gazing off into space. Huh. Go figure. Aura turned back to their own paper and agonized over what to write. Finally, they went with, I liked the crabs. There were a lot of them with a lot of different shapes. Some of them tried to eat my toes. Crabs, I think, are very silly.