Can't wait! on Cascade Hall

Waverly Canterbury

April 12, 2012 1:49 PM

Notice: Sign up for the Baking Club! by Waverly Canterbury

Waverly had beyond excited for this new activity. The Baking Club had officially been approved by the headmistress and now it just needed members. She had been dreaming about it for a little while and had told her mom all about it. In response, she had received a little scrapbook of all the recipes that were easy enough for a twelve-year-old to do and recipes that Waverly was familiar with enough to teach to her peers.

She had created a little sign-up sheet and put it up in Cascade Hall. Hungry people usually liked to bake things to eat, right? At least she did. She wasn't much of a cook, but she loved to bake. Cookies, cakes, muffins, brownies...mostly sweet things. Waverly couldn't stop smiling as she put up the sign-up sheet. She really, really hoped that people signed up. It would be really sad if no one wanted to, though she had gotten Jade's sister and cousin to show an interest. Hopefully they'd sign up and come. With hope in her heart, she left the sheet to the masses and went on her merry way.

If you're interested in learning how to bake or want to have a place to bake your own things at school, come to the Baking Club! It will be in the Potions classroom at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays. We'll be baking cookies, cakes, brownies, and a bunch of other things, so come if you're interested! To be an official member, or just to show your interest, please write your name and your year down on the sheet. The official meeting will be in two weeks! If you have any questions, owl Waverly Canterbury, second-year.

Subthreads:

Signing up by Valentina Bentancourt

Can't wait! by Clara Abernathy with Amira Thornton, Amira

Eager for Learning and Brownies! by Thad Pierce

Might as well... by Fae Sinclair

Can you teach the un-teachable? by Kitty McLevy

Not that I need to gain any more weight by Josephine Owen

You never know until you try by Derry Four

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Valentina Bentancourt

April 12, 2012 2:58 PM

Signing up by Valentina Bentancourt

Sonora had been better than she had expected once she had returned for her fifth-year. Valentina was actually happy and her classes weren’t that demanding, or maybe it was because she had been actually studying for the different subjects. It was quite obvious that the Teppenpaw had made major life changes. She was always smiling, but that was probably due to Marcus. It was weird to think she had an actual boyfriend. Not only was her boyfriend cute, but he was actually nice and fun to be around with. However, she had been ignoring her practicing schedule, and even when she was aware of that, she just couldn’t help wanting to spend time with him. On the other hand, for some odd reason males at Sonora had suddenly blossomed into very attractive males, or maybe she hadn’t been paying attention before, because even the younger fourth-years were catching her eye.

Valentina deep down was sure that her attitude towards life now that she had a boyfriend was not right. She was ignoring her duties and responsibilities. Not to mention that she hadn’t told her mother that she was dating. Emiliana Bentancourt was liberal, but she was not going to approve her only daughter dating someone like Marcus. The Spaniard could already picture the lengthy and boring speech about how he was beneath her. He wasn’t and just because she was part of a Pureblood family didn’t mean she was better than him. In fact, her status as illegitimate daughter could be seen as her not being suited for him or something. Valentina hated the prejudices a lot of her family members shared. The worst thing of all was that she hadn’t told her mother because she was surely going to tell her father and then all hell would break loose. In her opinion she had very valid reasons not to share her good news, not even to Alex.

The Teppenpaw had finished with one of the very rare practices she had since the Opening Feast and she was starving. Not caring what people thought, she entered the Cascade Hall in her dancing outfit. Valentina was wearing black tights, a black leotard and a delicate white gauze skirt tied around her hips and her Pointe-slippers around her neck, and her hair was tied in a messy bun.

She looked around and saw that it was practically empty; she grinned to herself and went to look for a prairie-elf. On her search for something to eat she saw a sign-up sheet about a baking club. Valentina didn’t know how to bake, but it sounded like fun. She read the sheet and rummaged on the shoulder bag she had with her. She finally found a lonely self-inking quill and wrote down her name.

Valentina Bentancourt, fifth-year

She grinned to no one in particular and thought about all the things she would bake and give Marcus. He hoped he had a strong stomach, because she had no idea if she was going to be successful in this endeavor.

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Clara Abernathy

April 12, 2012 10:18 PM

Can't wait! by Clara Abernathy

Out on one of her walks of the new school, Clara found her way back to Cascade Hall where she had spent her first moments upon arriving to Sonora. She glanced around the great hall smiling to herself as she thought about all her cousins so far who were already here and had been happy to see her. They seemed especially amused when she turned the color of chocolate and was ushered over to the Pecaris table where her cousin Amira waited for her. Looking around at the empty tables Clara thought she might be able to pick out which one they had been sitting at during the Opening Feast. With nobody sitting at any of them, however, she wasn't quite sure which one it had been. She shrugged. It didn't matter really.

As Clara walked through the hall she noticed tacked up on one of the boards a piece of paper. She walked over to get a closer look and was excited to see it was a sign up sheet for Waverly's Baking Club. She did it! she thought excitedly. She actually got the headmistress' approval. This is great! Now I'll actually get to learn how to do this the right way and hopefully I won't accidentally start any fires! the 11 year old thought gleefully as she flashed briefly to her cookie fiasco back home. She grimaced to herself and put the bad thought out of her mind. This was her chance to show her dad that she could really do this. She was afterall an Abernathy and Abernathys didn't know the meaning of the word quit. True, it took them a while to get the hang of things, but once they did they were unstoppable.

Clara smiled at that thought as she rummaged through her bag for a pen. She was about to add her name to the sheet when she noticed there was another name already there. Valentina, it said. And she was a 5th year! Awesome! Clara thought. I'm glad Amira and I won't be the only ones signing up! She smiled contently as she added her name to the sign up sheet; Clara Abernathy, first year. She put the pen back in her bag and left Cascade Hall eager to tell Amira and the others all about Waverly's sign up sheet and Valentina. She couldn't wait to meet someone brand new!

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Thad Pierce

April 15, 2012 4:20 PM

Eager for Learning and Brownies! by Thad Pierce

Under ordinary circumstances, Thaddeus Pierce the Second would likely never learn how to bake. Under ordinary circumstances, Thaddeus Pierce the Second would never realize he didn't know how to bake and this would therefore not ever come to trouble him. Under ordinary circumstances, Thaddeus Pierce would not see a Sign Up for Baking Club! notice in the Cascade Hall and realize this glaring deficiency.

Today, however, there was such a notice, and reading it, Thaddeus became appalled by this terrible shortfall in his education. He did not know how to create the wonderful squares of Heaven known as brownies without asking a House Elf to create some for him. This could not be tolerated! What if he ever encountered a situation where the only House Elves on hand didn't know how to make brownies? He could not be left dependent on servants for all of his brownie needs!

Plus, well, they'd get to sample their wares, to make sure they made them right, and who could say no to eating brownies on a regular basis?

Thad added his name to bottom of the list.

Thaddeus Pierce II, Second Year

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Amira Thornton

April 17, 2012 12:32 AM

For what? by Amira Thornton

Amira was a growing girl. She was almost 14 after all, almost a grownup in her own eyes. Perhaps not in the eyes of anyone else, but to her, she was maturing and she sorta liked the idea of that. Now that Clara was in Pecari House with her she wasn’t nearly as mad or crazy about anything (with the exception of Quidditch) that she’d seen so far that year. This was a good development. Partly, she was sure, from her stupidity of the summer before this one and the injuries that resulted from it. But the firey-red headed girl knew it was mostly due to having Clara there looking up to her. Now she had to be grown up. She didn’t have a choice. Aunt Sophia would have wanted it just that way, and she knew it. The older Pecari had taken Clara as one of her own sisters from the time they were super little and it hadn’t changed now that the younger of the Pecari cousins was at school.

In any case, Mira’s stomach was growling for food so she went down to Cascade Hall to eat and spotted Clara going out of the room. “Oh hey there cousin!” she said happily. “What’s with the excitement? There a fire in there or something?” she asked, winking and laughing as she pulled her little cousin into a hug. Amira had always been the fighter in her family, the one to pull stupid things out of a hat. It seemed to be that now she was growing out of that and had become more loving and motherly out of nowhere.

Unless it involved Quidditch that is. THAT was still one of her main focuses. She’d made some money at the beginning of the summer doing chores for people about the neighborhood to make money for the Quidditch Camp Mel spoke of. She got to go and it was the best thing she could have done. But now that she was back at Sonora after training like that and spending time with the family and at doctors offices she felt grown and ready to win at anything she tried without the stupidity.

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Fae Sinclair

April 18, 2012 9:58 PM

Might as well... by Fae Sinclair

Fae had seen the sign up sheet multiple times in the last week. Each time she had paused briefly in front of it and chewed her lower lip in thought. And every time she walked away without putting her name on it. It was hard for her to leave the comforts of her own box and experience new and different things, but with her siblings upcoming nuptials, Fae had been forced outside of her box quite often and had to think about her future. Shelby liked to remind her that having hobbies will come in handy. Like their mother, Shelby had a knack for gardening. They could make anything grow even when the soil was dried up and the grass around it dead. Fae was not so gifted. She had killed a cactus plant and had been informed that those were nearly impossible to kill.

With gardening being out for a possible hobby to keep her preoccupied during the days after Sonora, Fae had to decide on something else. Crochet was something she already did and she did enjoy a good book from time to time (much to everyone’s surprise, she was sure) and she knew how to play the piano, but these were not things that she wanted to spend all of her days for the rest of her life doing.

Fae took a breath. The club would be starting soon and Fae really needed to make a decision. The truth was, baking was probably just going to be another disappointment. Besides, would her future husband even like the idea of her being in the kitchen? After all, they would have at least one house elf. Still, baking was something that had enough flexibility to keep her interested.

Lifting her self-inking quill, Fae signed herself up for the baking club.

Fae Sinclair, Fourth Year

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Kitty McLevy

April 21, 2012 12:56 AM

Can you teach the un-teachable? by Kitty McLevy

Kitty made it a habit to always check the different announcement boards both in the Hall, and in the Commons room because she never knew when something interesting might appear. Today the Gods of Interesting Things graced her with a signup sheet for a Baking Club. There were those who had Kitty’s…skill in the Kitchen who might cringe away from something like a Baking Club, but the ever optimistic girl was sure that this time things would work out well.

Unfortunately for the bubbly Aladren, or perhaps for the other students who’d signed up for the Club, Kitty was terrible at cooking. This significant lack of skill had carried over to her Potions career in the school, which was one of the few classes the short girl truly struggled in. “Maybe this’ll help!” Kitty said happily as she scrawled her name and year on the list.

Kitty McLevy, 3rd year, Aladren

It was possible that by learning how to cook, it would improve her focus in potions. But, more than that Kitty loved fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, and if she joined the club there was a very high likelihood of her getting her favorite treat. Hopefully, she’d get someone else’s batch and not have to eat her own. The last time she attempted to make cookies she got the table spoons and tea spoons mixed up and the cookies turned out inedible due to way too much salt.

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Josephine Owen

April 24, 2012 12:09 PM

Not that I need to gain any more weight by Josephine Owen

Waverly was the pleasant girl in Jade's year who Josephine had helped out for the Fair, teaching the younger girl some basic charms to complement her craft project. Jade had even commented before on Waverly's ready supply of muffins, brownies and other baked goods, and while Josephine had been under the impression that these treats came from home, if Waverly was willing to set up a baking club in school, then perhaps she would at least be using the recipes her mother used to create the delicious treats about which Jade had raved. In short, Josephine would be happy to learn from the underclassman.

She'd never been all that good at cooking herself, although she liked to think she made some slow progress in the holidays spent at home. She liked to help her mother prepare vegetables, but she'd never yet gotten the hang of more complex processes involved in cooking. Learning to bake would be a great development in her skill area, not to mention she might branch out and make some friends if she took part in more extra-curricular activities.

After checking the list of other students who had signed up so far and finding it to be within her liking, Josephine added her own details to th list in neat handwriting: Jospehine Owen, fourth year.

Admittedly, Josephine did have some concerns about joining a club that was exclusively geared towards helping her created suagry foods. The fourth year was not of a slim build, and whiloe she thought she knew how to dress to make the most of her plentiful curves, she didn't actually want to get any fatter. She was just slim enough to avoid the comment so far, but she knew full well that if she started baking and eating on a regular basis that she was going to struggle with her waistbands, and her self-esteem could really do without that final blow. She would just have to be careful, that's all.

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Derry Four

April 24, 2012 2:24 PM

You never know until you try by Derry Four

Derry Pierce enjoyed cookies, and he and Reggie had eventually created a pretty decent chili last year. Neither of these factors, however were enough to entice him into joining a baking club. Baking was something that had once fallen into the realm of Things House Elves Do. Now, after a summer living without their help, it had joined a new category: Things Best Left To Bakeries Instead Of Mom.

This experience had taught him a very important lesson: not all cookies are created delicious. It had been a difficult lesson to learn, and he wasn't entirely over the trauma of it yet, so the prospect of making and eating cookies alone was not as tempting as it may have been several months ago.

There was, however, one other draw to this particular club that had very little to do with its stated purpose. From the beginning, Derry had suspected it would collect mostly girls. So far, the only exception to that suspicion was his cousin Thad. Thad was weird though, so Derry wasn't going to dismiss his theory.

He hadn't signed up too early, waiting first to see which girls were joining. The first few were little disappointing. They were either much too young, or they were already dating someone.

Now, though, the situation had changed somewhat. Kitty was only one year younger than him. Josephine was his age. Both girls, in his experience, were very nice and interesting people. It was enough and there was still a chance more available girls in the intermediate level classes might join.

His chances of impressing at least one of them had to be pretty good.

So he put his name to the list as well.

Derry The Fourth in Fourth

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Clara Abernathy, Pecari

April 28, 2012 7:00 PM

So exciting! by Clara Abernathy, Pecari

Clara had been ready to leave Cascade Hall and look for Amira to tell her all about the baking club sign ups when she almost literally ran into her as Mir was coming into the hall. She hugged her cousin back when Mir hugged her and rolled her eyes exasperatedly when Mir asked, "What's your hurry? Is there a fire somewhere or something?" She knew her older cousin wasn't trying to be mean, she just couldn't help bringing up Clara's mishap with the oven whenever her cousin got the chance. "No...there's no fire," she assured her cousin peevishly. She let out a patient sigh and regaled her cousin with what she had seen tacked up on the wall.

"Waverly got permission from the headmistress to run her baking club!" she told her excitedly. "The first meeting starts in two weeks and she already has somebody signed up for it. Her name is Valentina and she's apparently a 5th year," she told Amira happily. "We need to find Addison, Aubrielle and Arisa and see if they want to sign up too before its too late!" She started to tug Amira with her out of the hall and stopped when she heard her own stomach growl. She turned back to Mir sheepishly. "On second thought...maybe their signing up can wait until after we get something to eat." She instead half dragged her cousin towards the area in the hall where you could get food. "Afterall, I'd hate trying to talk to them about food if I'm already thinking about food..." she told her cousin simply.

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Amira

April 30, 2012 12:38 PM

It's time to eat! by Amira

Amira was surprised to meet Clara pretty much in the doorway of Cascade Hall. She half expected her little cousin to either be in classes or still playin around in her room. But this was a nice surprise to the older Pecari to see her. She hadn’t meant to make her words sound like they were making fun of Clara, but from the look on her cousin’s face, Clara thought she was. Oh well, I’ll have to explain it to her later on, I guess. I’d only meant to pretty much make the point of why she was running so fast out of the room! she thought as Clara said there was no fire.

Clara went on excitedly about Waverly having gotten permission to start her baking club and that there was already a student signed up. Her happy cousin went on and she didn’t have the heart to interrupt her even with her stomach grumbling to eat. Clara started to tug her away from the Hall to try to find the other Thornton’s, to which she sighed and resigned herself to not eating just yet.

Clara stopped short and turned back to Amira, who looked at her curiously. "On second thought... maybe their signing up can wait until after we get something to eat." Clara said.

Mir nodded to her little cousin and smiling at her allowed Clara to half drag her back towards the food. “Yes, I think that may be a good idea. That makes sense to me little cousin.”

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