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 Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:31 am
Kunjiro looked at his friend first then to the orb on his hand, before placing it into a treasure chest-shaped box. The box has a small locker on it, so the boy thought that it would be the best to hide it from his guardian. "My mom doesn't know that I bought this box when she was buying groceries. That time I was bored, so I went to the toy store beside the grocery shop to browse around and saw the box. I find it attractive so I bought it," said Kunjiro, showing to his friend before putting it back to where he took it. "Don't tell anyone about it, especially my mum. I keep all my treasures inside it and some of them are related to magic. Like I said, my mum doesn't like anything magic in the house."
"And I'll call you if I'm going to your house, it sounds rude if I don't," said Kunjiro. "I can't wait to visit your room though, it's so exciting," he continued, chuckling. Upon hearing that Rex has no teacher to tutor him science, the mushroom kid beamed. "Come and attend then, but I think you better ask your mum first, because I don't think she'll be happy if you didn't tell her about the class. I really hope that she doesn't mind you joining," said the boy.
Kunjiro then waved to his friend. "Goodbye, hope to see you soon," he called. "Take care!"
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:26 am
"Don't worry, your secret's safe with me," Rex assured, patting his friend's shoulder. The boy grinned at Kunjiro's invitation and waved his tail happily behind him. "I'd love to, and I don't think Mother will mind at all."
The boy then returned a wave to Kunjiro, backstepping his way out of the room. "I will, thanks. You take care too, okay? Bye!" Rex said and turned, taking off in the direction of him own room, King waving paddling his tiny forearms at the mushroom boy as the distance between them increased.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:18 am
Science Class with KunjiroT'was a quarter to 10.
Rexier Gaver stood nervously before the door with a card in hand, peering down at it. Th boy shifted restlessly, and fidgetted with one edge of said card. Holding it up, he read it again.The card Heya Rex and King! How are both of you and your family? I'm doing great here and I'm sending you this to inform you that the Science class I mentioned the other day will begin soon. Hope to see you in my room and my mother was happy when I told her that you would me for the class. The class will begin at 10.00 a.m. and ends at 11.30 a.m. but you have to reach my room before 9.55 a.m and you will need to bring some writing materials (Forgot to get you some when I was buying them, sorry!). I have papers so you don't need to bring them. That's all for now, hope to see you soon. -Kunjiro
I don't know, King. Rex sighed, fiddling with his card and backpack. The boy was truly puzzled. It wasn't like him to get all frightened and worried, not even about class. I guess... this is my first class with a stranger teaching- not that Kunjiro's a stranger, but his mother, ... I don't really know her well, and from what he said about her not liking magic...
Rex let out another sigh. That could be it. Oh well. He was there now, and with thoughtful comforting by King, Rex gathered his courage and knocked on the door.
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:12 am
"Please place these on the table for me," called Xiao Ling to Kunjiro as she was busy arranging the tables and chairs for her students in the living room. She had been busy preparing for the last few hours, and if Kunjiro was not there to help her she would have fainted from exhaustion and would have postpone the class(which was not a good thing, especially with Kunjiro's friend as her student). The arrangement of the tables and chairs were soon done, and Xiao Ling reached out to the rectangle-shaped table and grabbed a tissue to wipe her sweat. "Phew!"
"Okay," replied the excited boy, grabbing the apparatus from his guardian. The boy then placed them on the table beside the tissue box and looked at the clock hanging on the wall. "9.40 a.m. Wow, that was really long. We started preparing at 7 a.m. and now it's almost time. Rex will be here anytime soon," said Kunjiro.
The doorbell rang when Kunjiro had just finished talking. Without much thinking the boy rushed to the door and opened it. To his surprise, the visitor was not Rex, but someone else delivery the groceries Xiao Ling had ordered earlier. "Hello," said the visitor. "Is your mother in? She ordered something earlier."
"Yes, my mother's in. I'll call her," replied Kunjiro coldly. "Mom! The groceries are here," the boy called, before storming off and sat on one of the chairs arranged for the class and sulked.
Xiao Ling laughed as she closed the door after the man left. "You thought it was Rex, right?" she asked, laughing a little. It was quite funny and surprising to see Kunjiro sulking for the first time in his life. "And... knock knock!" There were knocks on the door which interrupted Xiao Ling, who was talking to the sulking boy. "I guess your friend has arrived," she said, heading towards the door. She then opened the door and smiled at the visitor. "Hello," greeted Xiao Ling. "Do come in and take your seat over there," she said, pointing to the set of table and chair beside Kunjiro. "And I think Kunjiro's in shock, so best leave him alone until he feels better."
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:20 am
"Good morning," Rex smiled, bowing slightly. The boy went slightly tense at the fact that he did not know her name, but collected himself just in time to utter "miss".
"I hope I'm not late or something."
Still smiling, Rex nodded to Xiao Ling and made his way towards the tables and chairs, pausing hesitantly as he sized up the chairs. They weren't small for him but they did seem rather... fragile. For him, that is. Rex wondered if the wooden chairs could support his and King's weight, before finally pulling on slightly aside and placing his bag on it. The boy opened and reached into the backpack, and retrieved from it a bamboo dimsum container, still rather warm.
"Here's a little something from me and my mum," Rex said, offering it to Kunjiro's guardian. "Mother just made it, so it's still warm."
Meanwhile, King peered at Kunjiro curiously. Puzzled at the mushroom boy's behaviour just then, the tyrannosaur let out a low rumble, then barked softly out to him.
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Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:32 pm
Xiao Ling smiled at the boy. "No, you're not late," she replied as she closed the door behind her. "Then we can start the class soon, after you're ready. Please take out a piece of paper and a pencil," instructed the guardian.
"And thank you, Rex," thanked the guardian as she took the container from him. "Please say thank you to your mother for me. This is for you and your family," she continued, handing Rex a wrapped box.
Kunjiro was still sulking when his friend entered the house, but he felt better when the tyrannosaur barked softly to him. "Hello," greeted the mushroom kid. Kunjiro then took out what his guardian instructed from the drawer and place them on the table. "The papers I promised are in your drawer, Rex."
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Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:51 pm
"I will," Rex nodded, then received the box from Xiao Ling with a smile. "Thank you," the boy said, and placed it carefully in his bag.
Rex then went over to his table and took his seat, placing his bag gently on the floor in order not to shake the gift up too much. Reaching down into the black backpack, the boy drew out his writing material.
"Thank you," the boy whispered as Kunjiro settled down beside him. Grinning, he reached for the papers provided by his friend.
King panted at Kunjiro's greeting, jaws slackened and looking his he was laughing, which in fact he was. The tyrannosaur churred and wagged his tail, preparing himself for a nap. It was the most sensible thing to do during another of these lessons, as King learned, and he would do just that now, unless someone has plans for him.
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:56 pm
"We'll start the class now, since everyone's ready. We'll end it early if we start the class early."
"Seeing that this is our first class, we'll start with the basics first so today's topic is 'Introduction to Science'," said Xiao Ling to her students. "I'm sorry if you have already learned that Rex, maybe you can take it as a revision? This is Kunjiro's first class, so I have to teach him the basics," the guardian explained.
"Science is the knowledge of everyday life, I repeat, Science is the knowlege of everyday life. Please write that on the blank paper. Science also helps us to understand ourselves and many other things better. For example, how does our digestive system work? Why do coconuts fall downwards and not upwards?"
Kunjiro took his pencil and wrote the important notes as he listened to his guardian. There were some spelling errors for words that are complex to him, and the paper he used was very untidy and dirty with scribbles.
"Kunjiro, you only have to write 'Science is the knowledge of everyday life'. The others are just explanation to make you understand the statement better," said Xiao Ling, pointing her finger to the first line of her book.
The boy nodded and erased everything on the paper before copying the sentence on the book Xiao Ling was showing. "Gah!" he thought.
Xiao Ling waited for Kunjiro to finished copying before turning to her other student. "Did you managed to write that too? Remember, it's only 'Science is the knowledge of everyday life', just like what I told Kunjiro earlier," she said.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:27 pm
Rex nodded at Xiao Ling's explanation, and scribbled down the phrase on his paper.
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:22 am
After writing the notes slowly and neatly again, Kunjiro closed the book and called to Xiao Ling as he raised his hand with the book on the northwest direction of his table.
Xiao Ling saw the boy's reaction and went to his table to get her book back. "Thank you, Kunjiro. We will continue the lesson now," she asked, heading towards the larger(and messy) table. The guardian then opened the book and continued with the teaching. "Without Science, the world would not be as developed as what we see and own now. Now, can any one of you here tell me what are the things that Science has contributed?"
Kunjiro raised his hand excitedly as he was eager to answer the question. "I know, Science has taught people how to make aeroplanes and cars!" he answered.
"That's right, but that will be under 'transports'. Other things like medicines, telephones, electrical appliances as well as the food we eat are all contributed by Science. Now I'll give both of you a book each and you can take your time to read the information about the things you learned today. Also, please bring this book every week so that you don't have to write notes again," said Xiao Ling as she placed the books on the tables in front of her. "Now, any questions before we move on?"
The boy grabbed the book and turned it back and front to investigate the cover. He then flipped the pages but stopped when the kid found some interesting photos. Without removing his eyes from them the kid said 'no' to Xiao Ling's question.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 4:43 am
Rex, as always in class, had been listening attentively and jotting down whatever facts he deemed important, even if they were in fact not. Accepting the book handed to him with a grateful 'thanks', the boy flipped through it, skimming the pages for... stuff.
At Xiao Ling's question, Rex looked up and raised a hand. Keeping in mind not to mention magic in any way possible, the boy queried, "I heard somewhere that science can't explain everything, even though covers a lot of things. Is this true?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:34 pm
The guardian saw the hand and smiled after Rex's inquiry."Good question. Yes, there are things that science cannot explain but some are awaiting to be discovered. For example, animals that are not discovered by the scientists. You can't say that these animals can't be explained by science, it's just that little is known about them. No one knows the name of the animal as well as their habitat and so on.
Kunjiro listened in interest as Xiao Ling explained to his friend about the question he asked earlier. Curious to learn more, the mushroom kid raised his hand and asked. "Then what are the things that science cannot explain?"
"Time is one of things that science cannot explain. I'm sure both of you have already watched cartoons and read books about people using time machine to turn back the time. These things are not real because science cannot explain how the thing works and the positive as well as the negative effects f the time machine. Another thing that science cannot explain is magic. But I'm not a magician or something related to magic, so I'm not going to explain anything about magic.
Now we'll move on to the next topic for the day. For physical quantities, it'll be faster if you read those yourself. Feel free to ask me if you are not clear with them. Please open your book and turn to page 9.
The next topic is 'Density'. Density is the relative heaviness of objects, measured in units of mass or weight per units of volume. Objects with higher density that water or 1g/cubic cm will sink while objects lighter than water will float. Before the time is up, let's do two small experiments on density. I'd like both of you to join your tables together so that there will more space for you to do them. Also keep whatever is on your table into the drawer please.
Both of you will receive two beakers each, a cork, a stone, an ice, a small packet of salt, an egg and some oil. Place your egg and the packet of salt into one of the beakers and leave it aside. Do not open the packet of salt. After that, fill the other beaker with water. You can use the kitchen's sink to do so. I'll give you 2 minutes to fill it and we'll have a short break before we continue the experiment. Feel free to take some food from the plastic here but please don't make a mess."
Kunjiro did what Xiao Ling instructed and place the filled beaker aside before taking the other empty beaker to the kitchen sink to fill it. The boy did not take a long time to fill the beaker and upon hearing the word 'break', Kunjiro placed the beaker on the table and rushed to the plastic to grab a packet of peanut biscuit and a small bottle of water.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:19 pm
Rex nodded at Xiao Ling's answer, apparently satisfied for now. Noting to himself that magic and science were two totally unrelated fields, the boy decided to just push aside all magical knowledge he had into a corner of his mind, and focused on this curious science thing. Obviously not many cared to fill his mind up with this topic in Criffelance and the Wolf household.
Turning to page 9 as instructed, Rex scanned through the page, before dog-earing the page for later. The boy focused his attention on Xiao Ling and the topic on hand. He then scribbled down the main points of said topic, before clearing the table hastily and joining it with Kunjiro's.
This temporary commotion woke King up, who snorted sleepily and peered around the room groggily. Are we done? The tyrannosaur queried and yawned, tears coming to his eyes.
No, not yet.
Rex blinked at the assorted items for the upcoming experiment, then promptly placed his egg and packet of salt into a beaker. The boy then grabbed the other beaker and nodded to Xiao Ling. "Okay, thank you."
Rex followed after his friend to the sink and filled the beaker as instructed, before moving carefully back to his table. Once there he placed the beaker (almost too hard) on said table before taking a sandwich and a bottle of water from the plastic bag. Settling himself back down on his chair, Rex grinned as King realised the presence of food around and unwrapped the cling film from his sandwich.
"Here you go," the boy said, tearing a small chunk off for himself and handed the larger portion for his twin. Rex then proceeded to nibble on his share of the sandwich, glancing from the teacher to Kunjiro.
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Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:45 pm
Xiao Ling sat on the teacher's table and watched her students going in and out of the kitchen with their beakers. She then reached her hand out for the plastic and took out a small hamburger and started chewing it after the wrapper was removed.
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Ten minutes passed quickly as the class were having their short break. When the class is ready, Xiao Ling stood up from her chair and went to the joined tables and called to her students to stop eating. "Break's over, so we'll continue the experiment. I see that both beaker's were filled with water, well done, both of you," she praised.
"The next step you need to do is simple. Place the cork, then the stone, followed by the ice and last is the oil into the filled beaker and tell me what will happen after that."
Kunjiro stopped when the break is over. The boy then threw the biscuit wrappers into the trash can beside the teacher's table and went back to his seat, ready to continue the experiment. After listening to his guardian, the boy did what was instructed and found out that some of the things float, while the others sink to the base of the beaker.
"I saw some of the items float and some sink," said Kunjiro, staring at the beaker. "Is this related to density?"
"That's right. What you see now is related to density. Stone sinks because it is more dense than water. To make stone float, you'll have to increse the density of water. To do that, you can add salt into the water. We'll do that after this. Any questions before we move on to the next one?"
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