Fair meeting - Chile on Transfiguration

DH Skies

December 24, 2016 1:57 PM

Fair meeting - Chile by DH Skies

Selina was genuinely excited for the fair. It had been hard to choose the number of booths so that everyone who wanted to could participate but without stretching the resources of the student body too thin. They had done her proud though. They had eight exciting, diverse countries and a healthy number of students signed up to each. Sonora’s students, and their endless capacity to be involved, always made her proud of where she worked. Her own group was one of the smaller ones, comprised of only four students. As the group hadn’t been full, she hadn’t thought to check for tampering, as she couldn’t see anyone’s motivation to do so, and so was unaware that Chaslyn’s name had been wiped off the list. Subsequently, she had sent owls only to Aislinn, Tobi, Makenzie and Isaac, inviting them to come to the transfiguration room on a Saturday early in the term.

“Welcome to Chile,” she greeted, once her four students had assembled. “And thank you for signing up. This will be your booth to run how you wish, within reason. I’m here to check that your ideas aren’t racist or unrealistic. Beyond that, you have a free rein. The only thing I’d ask for is that we get a finished product that incorporates everyone’s ideas, as far as possible.” She was a little worried about Isaac being overshadowed, given the substantial age difference between him and the other students. Hopefully, as a Pecari, he was outgoing enough to hold his own.

“There are plenty of books available, to help you get started, along with some inspirational snacks,” in her mind, places were best captured through food. Her entire decision to take on Chile had been based on drawing a complete blank after the European tables were spoken for, and consulting a bottle of wine. She had looked up what she could about Chilean food, but largely found it to be very unfamiliar territory. As its major crops included olives and avocados, she had provided both of these, the latter in the form of guacamole, accompanied by some perhaps not very Chilean chips for dipping purposes.

“I’m here if you have any questions about logistics, but other than that, I’ll leave you to yourselves.”

OOC - welcome to Chile! This meeting will have Quidditch style posting, whereby people can post as and when they wish, rather than in turn-taking order.

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Tobi Reinhardt

January 08, 2017 5:56 PM

Suggesting by Tobi Reinhardt

When Tobi arrived at the Transfiguration classroom for the first fair booth meeting, he was half afraid that Chaslyn was going to show up, having somehow found out about the time and place of the meeting. Happily though, as the other names on the list showed up and Chaslyn was decidedly not present, it seemed that his unusually devious plan had worked and Chaslyn was going to have some rest time. How none of the professors hadn’t figured out about how she was managing to do it all (it seemed impossible to balance) he wasn’t sure, but there had to be something else going on, something helping her. His attempts to tail her didn’t work—they were in separate houses and (for obvious reasons) couldn’t use the same bathrooms nor could he wait outside Crotalus or the girls bathrooms without feeling and seeming like a complete creep and so he had just given up because it was an impossible task to always be everywhere that Chaslyn was when she was there.

And that was how Tobi knew that if Chaslyn somehow made it to the Chile fair meeting he was going to have to take it to a professor because something was not right. It was physically impossible to do everything Chaslyn did—there were not enough hours in a day.

But, that was neither here nor there because he was sitting in the Transfiguration classroom with Professor Skies, Isaac Song, Makenzie Newell, Aislinn Nicolls, and Not Chaslyn Brockert. Which was perfectly fine with him because he liked Makenzie and both Isaac and Aislinn seemed like perfectly nice people. And not only that but Professor Skies was adamant to keep the group on track and away from racism which was always something Tobi could get behind.

“Since there are four of us, maybe we could divide the country into four different aspects and each be in charge of that particular aspect but help each other out with the little things,” he said. “There’s obviously a lot of things in Chile which are interesting, and I think it’s best to really capture it as best we can. Food is always something that brings people together, but that is something that is better to be eaten than seen on a poster, so maybe that could be a bonus fifth category which all of us contribute to?”

Tobi wasn’t used to taking lead on things, but he was excited about this project and actually had some ideas he wanted to throw around. “I was thinking it could be really interesting to do something about the animal life in Chile—they have penguins which is really cool! But I also think it’s equally important to recognise the indigenous people of Chile. Those are the two areas that interest me the most, so I’m happy to lead research on either if someone else really wants to do the other..”

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