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 Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:39 am
Twins. It had been a while since he'd taught more then one kid and even longer since they had been related so this should be fun he thought to himself as he ready over the information on them. This class would be one of two, this one meant for the mind while the second one would be for the body. From what he read it seemed as though it would be the best way to go about it due to the differences in the twins.
Orpheus gave a smile as he lifted a hand to adjust his glasses then flipped through the pages once more before he looked over at the large blanket that he had spread out within the grassy terrain room. He wanted to get the 'Mind' based class over first so he had it set up, a lot of paper of various colors, some glue, glitter, markers, crayons, and various other artistic supplies that Maria had helped him to picked out. All of them would be used in the upcoming activity and he was rather certain that it was going to be a bit of a mess but fun at the same time... or so he hoped.
All he had to do now was wait for his students to arrive he thought to himself, walking over to the door to the classroom, pushed it open, and he waited for them to arriving, smiling all the while.
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:31 pm
This was not something either kid wanted to do, it was bad enough having to deal with Kat now they have to deal with one more teacher. Little did they know he is super cool, so is Kat but she works them hard. Orpheus Solon is also the guardian of two of their good friends. Ryan was the first to enter soon after Ro followed. Both of their tails were limp and they looked rather grim. They stood side by side, and they weren’t even fighting with each other.
Now Ryan doesn't like school that is why he was bummed, Ro doesn't like change and that is why she didn't want to do this. When she saw the open space and no kid decorations she was relived. Ryan also liked this and his tail started to swish. Yet they kept their pouty faces, Orpheus hadn't won them over yet. Ro looked down to the ground and didn't say anything. Ryan broke the silence "So what .... we gunna do" he asked kind of cocky but still curious.
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:31 pm
Orpheus couldn't help but to give a little chuckle as he looked toward the two rhino children that came in, looking as though the two of them had been sentenced to a slow, torturous death, "Good afternoon." He greeted the pair, giving them an encouraging smile, "My name is Orpheus Solon, its nice to finally meet the two of you."
His attention turned to looking at Ryan as the boy spoke up for the two of them and he gave a smile, "Well... for the first class we have together I thought that we would have fun making some stuff out of paper then decorating what we make with a mass of glitter." He explained, hoping that one of the pair would be interested in the idea of working on the project. He motioned for the pair to follow him to where their stuff was laid out, "There is a lot of colors of paper to use, markers, crayons, glue, glitter, and various other things." He knew that glitter could be a massive mess that never went away as hard as you tried to get rid of it but he didn't care about messes, his office was a testament to that.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:17 pm
Ryan shrugged his arm and sat on the blanket cross legged, he got some sizors "Sooo .... we just make what ever we want?" he asked and pouted out his lip but not in a sad way as in to think about such an abstract project. He was used to making gifts or snowmen out of styrofoam. So he might actually embrace this project.
Ro-Honda on the other hand wasn't sure what to make of this "So what are we to make , what is our goal?" she stayed standing. How was she supposed to know what to do , if she had no plan. She blinked her eyes and did not look impressed.
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:43 pm
Orpheus looked between the pair of them when both seemed to dislike the idea that they were supposed to do this on their own. He thought on it for a moment before he gave a smile and sat down with them, "Naw, of course we aren't going into this without a plan. How either of you ever made a paper crane before?" He asked of them, it was one of a few origami animals that he could make so he was sure that he could use that as what they were doing, "We are going to make a few of those, though not quite enough to get a wish since that would take us days."
He picked up a piece of the construction paper, a piece of the blue colored one, and then looked at the twins, "Pick out a piece of paper. Once we are done making our cranes we can see about sprucing them up."
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:10 pm
The twins looked up one realived the other one disappointed. Ro-Honda smiled at the teacher and sat down. She listened to what he said "Why would it take a day to make a wish she asked?" not understanding the mythology of the paper crane. She then looked at the arrangement of papers and picked out a deep cherry red sheet with light and dark lavender swirls on it. She held up the paper "this is the paper I picked to make the crane , I am ready for instruction" she stated but also waited for the explanation about the cranes.
Ryan looked down at the papers and scrunched up his nose. He was officially disappointed, he would of rather cut out shapes and put them together then call it a collage. Now he was stuck doing something that took patience, and skill , he grabbed a paper at random and held it up , not saying a word. He kept thinking about sports , friends and the farm. He much rather be running around or playing game and not making some bird. Ryan didn't even hear Orpheus talk about the wish that came from the cranes , or his sister inquiring about it.
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:29 am
Orpheus gave a smile as they slowly went through the steps, "I heard once that if a person were to make one thousand paper cranes like the ones we are making that they will get a wish." He said as they went along through the steps, until the final one, "Now, if we did everything right you can tell, you pull on the tail lightly and the wings flap." He said, showing the twins how the bird he was holding would flap its wings for him.
"How about your birds? Are they able to flap for you?" He asked, wanting to make sure that they had been able to follow along, that he was going slowly enough for them to understand what each step was, and that their end products were the same as his. He looked from the bird that Ro-Honda held to the one that Ryan was holding, curious to see how the three of them had done when it came to this particular task.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:08 pm
As Orpheus Solon told his story Ro-Honda made her crane with ease "This story ... you told sounds interesting .... I will learn more about it at home or with Miss.Kate, would you please write this info down for me" she sounded like she practices saying this before. She did the last step the bird flapped its wings with strong strides or at least as strong as a paper bird can. Ro-Honda looked at the teacher "can I now make designs on my paper crane" she looked up and blinked.
As for the other twin, he hadn't even really got started; he was still trying to do the crucial folds to make the wings. He looked up at the teacher too, but looked rather disappointed, this was not fun at all. He turned to Mr.Solon "Do you have instructions I can look at ... I don't remember whatcha did....?" he asked.
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:21 pm
Orpheus watched as Ro-Honda took her bird and flapped its wings something that made him smile, "Excellent! Great job with being able to make your bird able to fly, Ro-Honda, I am quite impressed." He told her, looking it over before nodding, "Yes, if you want to put designs on it with the markers, add stickers, glue, anything like that feel free and I will go and check on your brother. If you need me I will come back to help you out."
He scooted over a little to look at the bird that Ryan had in his hands and gave him a smile, "That's not to bad, you just missed a couple steps but I understand. Origami can be a complicated process and if you miss one step then the steps that follow won't make any sense." He said, holding up his own bird and unfolded it to the point that Ryan was at, "Alright, now lets try again shall we?"
With a smile he started to go through the steps once more, a little slower this time so that he would be able to keep up this time around.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:46 pm
The rhino girl nodded at the teacher, but she wasn't going to need any help. She looked around for some paint and paint brushes. Once she found them she set herself up to design. Since the paper was already full of design she decided to keep it simple. She used white paint and made little white dots along the lavender swirls. This took about the same amount of time for Ryan to learn the steps of the crane. When Ryan was done making his crane, she began lightly streaming a line of glue down the cranes back. She then got out the sprinkles in a container much such like a salt shaker, and carefully got gold and copper sprinkles all over the glue. She placed the crane down and waited for it to dry. As far as she could tell the crane was perfect.
After having the steps explained to Ryan he slowly but surly made a paper crane. His paper was a plane yellow, with a bunch of small black lines through it. It looked like writing paper , but wasn't the right shape. He pulled the cranes tail , and the right wing kind of moved and the left wing jiggled. “Ok got its wings to move , can I just draw a face on it…. and maybe if I find cool stickers I will add those too” he looked over at Ro-Honda’s already done and vary detailed crane “I don’t want to do what she did” he stated and looked up at the teacher.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:33 pm
Orpheus gave a smile when Ryan got his bird to flap its wings, nodding his head, "Good job." He told him, then listened to what he was asking and the teacher couldn't help but to chuckle at the question, "Since its your crane you can decorate it any way that you like." He told him, not wanting him to think that he had to make the same thing that his sister had made.
Turning back to the girl he looked her project over and gave a whistle, "That's looking good Ro-Honda, I am impressed with your creativity." He told her, reminded in a way of his own daughter who loved art though if it were Maria it would be a lot of bright colors that would likely not match especially well.
Either way it seemed that everyone had their own sense of design, something he was learning well from the class. Looking up from the cranes that they were working on he spotted their Father, giving the man a smile before he turned his attention back to the twins, "If you two want to finish up the cranes we can bring them over to show to your Dad, what do you think?" He asked of them.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:49 pm
The twins both looked up and shrugged at the same time, they didn't really care if there dad saw or not. Ro-Honda only really cared about getting a good grade , and Ryan just wanted to get the heck out of here and go do something active he added a few flame stickers to his crane and drew some eyes and a mouth with a black marker "I'm done now" he stated.
Gabriel looking around in shock at how big d-corp is. "This is a class room" he asked him self. This was houndred times different from Miss.Kates room. Gabriel then smiled and waved at his kids. Once he was close enough he greeted Orpheus " Hello my name is Gabriel , I have met Maria and Ligeia , they are both wonderful , nice to meet the man who has raised them" he reached out his hand.
Ryan came running along "Are we going to leave now?" he asked all ansty and tale wagging. Ro-Honda got up "So did I pass the class" still more concerned with her grade.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:15 pm
Orpheus blinked a couple times when neither of them seemed terribly interested in the idea of showing their father what they had made before he gave a light chuckle. Well, he supposed not all children were into impressing their parents, just look at Terpsichore... not that anyone called his second oldest by that name other himself and occasionally Maria when she was trying to test him.
Pushing up to his feet he looked over at the cheerful man that was the twins's father, giving him a smile, "Hello." He said, reaching out to take his hand, giving it a firm shake before releasing his hand, "So you have met Maria and Ligeia have you? I am glad." It was nice to hear that he'd met the nicer of his children, though was half curious if he'd met Ter, "Have you by chance met my other son? Hes hard to miss, a rather loud cobra who travels with a wyvern." 'Loud' being the nice way to put it.
He turned to the twins as they came over, giving them a smile before nodding at Ro-Honda's question, "Yes, the both of you have passed and I thank you for your extra hard work, your crane turned out lovely." He turned to look over at Gabriel, "They made paper cranes today, one each, so now they only need nine-hundred-ninety-eight more and they can make a wish." He said, giving a chuckle.
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:45 pm
Gabriel smiled "Yes I have they are wonderful kids , and noo I haven't met your other son , I'm sure he is wonderful" Gabriel chuckled "Well I would love to see what you guys did?" asked the father.
Ryan looked over at Ro "want me to grab your crane" asked the bother. Ro nodded, the rhino girl was happy she passed but you wouldn't see it in her stone face. Ryan ran and grabbed their cranes as Gabriel looked around "Wow this place is huge..... and this is just one room.... my goodness... I guess the rooms have to be huge to train dragons, I got a letter about the kid seeing there dragon eggs soon, what should I prepare for? If you don't mind me asking” the young adult was having a hard time imagining his kids owning dragons. Meeting Ligeia and his frost dragon was good for Gabriel, but it was still hard to imagine his own kids raising them.
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 1:36 pm
Orpheus gave a smile that was a little strained when Gabriel said that he was sure Ter was wonderful, he'd love to agree but the boy could be a bit of a handful and then some... even worse when his girlfriend and their dragons were involved but no reason to bother the guy with such information he decided, "Yes, that he is."
He looked at Ryan as he went to fetch the paper cranes before looking at the man who seemed quite impressed by the terrains rooms, "Yes, everything here seems to be on quite a large scale to allow the dragons to move about comfortably." He agreed then seemed to think about he question posed to him, "Egg Meetings? Those are always fun, your children will be able to look in on their eggs and, on occasion depending on the breed, they might be able to touch them as well. There isn't much to worry about its mostly just a question and answer session for the children and the parents, to ask what they might eat, what they like, stuff like that." He explained, glad to be of help where he could and since he'd gone to two of those meetings already himself with Geia and Ter he was able to share the information he had.
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