Magic School Bus Field Trip (Lesson One Continues here)
 

The first lesson of the term is resuming aboard a school bus. Not just any school bus though, but Mrs Frizzle's MAGIC School Bus. Take your seats and get ready for a fun and exciting adventure ride!


ooc: activity has begun HERE. And will go until 9pm EST February 5th. GOOD LUCK!

activity is over! class dismissed ...

Anyone who had ever been on a school trip in a coach always knew that the best seat is at the BACK of the bus, and that is where Toby headed. He took a seat at the long row at the back, by one of the windows, and waited. Luckily the bus seemed small enough that he'd still be able to hear Professor Hadley when she spoke.

Tobias was curious. Hadley had seemed quite excited about this so maybe it would be particularly awesome?

Caleb had hopped on the bus first, but had stopped and let other people pass when his knees started aching like they were on FIREEEEE. He'd almost yelled out in pain but had instead bit his lip until it passed. Now, ready to walk again, he hobbled over to the back of the bus where he saw Tobias, one of the Huffie's he'd met last turn, sitting there alone. Alright, he'd do for a bus partner, he supposed!

"Heya Tobias...ready for this field trip?" he asked with a small chuckle as he eased himself slowly into the seat. He needed some serious aspirin or something later. He'd make a mental note to see Tillstorm about this.

Oooooh a Field Trip! Alex hadn't been on a school bus since her pre-Hogwarts days, let alone a magical bus. This was going to be fun. She headed for the door and climbed the steps to the bus. OK she didn't remember climbing the steps to be this painful. Trying to ignore her aching joints, Alex made it onto the bus and found a good seat by the window. Since she was one of the first students on board, she sat and waited for her classmates to arrive.

Still not knowing what was going on, Hannah wasn't too keen on just jumping on the bus. She sort of lingered before making her way on to the bus. It totally wasn't her fault that she couldn't hear, and the professor would explain it to her because she had asked and everything right?

So this was the inside of the bus. Could Nigel take a nap? That was the important question. The seats did not look terrible. Nigel had never been in a muggle school bus before so he had nothing to compare them too.

What did this have to do with muggle studies? Since this was a Magic School Bus. Not some ordinary muggle one. Nigel took a seat hoping for an answer to that question.

"Why is it a school bus, professor? Does it transport lazy Muggles around their learning centers? How come we don't have like.. a corridor bus? I don't want to walk to classes, it's effort. Which hand do they stick out to summon it?" Alice took a seat next to Nigel and examined the interior of the bus in awe.

Muggles were so weird. There weren't even beds in here, like that Huxley girl pointed out. And where WAS the hot chocolate? She could really go for some food right now.

"And how much is a toothbrush on here?"

Sarah found her seat, by the window. She wanted to get a good view. She was not going to be put to sleep by the motion on this bus.
The excitement was making her hyper and happy, and when she is like that, she begins to sing.
"The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go round round all day long" It was a silly song she learnt from muggle school.
She looked at the students around her, some of them still taking it in.
"The brains of the students go whir, whir, whir - whir, whir whir - whir whir whir.."

Sander settled into the magical bus and wondered where the Professor was going to take them. He had taken a couple of bus rides before, just to see how it felt like and there were times that it had been frightfully scary. Some of those bus drivers were crazy..

He suspected that a school bus wasn't any different.

Ah goooooooooooddd........ they were all boarding the bus! Which they probably confused as to why it was called a MAGIC School bus, when they were taking Muggle Studies. Funny, right, how Muggles named their possessions?

"No. No beds. Muggles, sadly think that buses should be meant for sitting down on, rather than sleeping or thinking of it like a public bedroom."

Hot chocolate? "Hmm... I suppose we could have some hot chocolate, but I don't want anyone to get burned. I mean the bus ... once it starts to go, moves quite ... quickly." Hence why they were stalled whilst everyone got situated. It was kind of like the knight bus, but for muggles.


"A school bus for muggles takes the kids to school. Because unlike you lot, many muggle students don't live on the premises, unless they go to a boarding school such as Hogwarts. But school buses take muggles from their personal homes to school." Did that make sense? Hopefully. "They don't need to summon it. They have designated bus stops around town where it picks them."

"No toothbrushes either." This wasn't the Hogwarts Express. Or the Knight Bus.


"Right so then. Fasten your seatbelts!" With a tap of the steering wheel with her wand because she could use hers, the magic bus began to leap into motion as they left the Muggle Studies Classroom behind .... temporarily.


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Quickly as the bus started to life, it zipped through space just as the Knight Bus might feel like. And as doing so, various equipment fell from the ceiling: jackets, driving gloves, driving goggles, etc. All available in four colors (red, green, blue and yellow).

"Alright, whilst we're driving to our destination, everyone please grab a jacket, gloves, and goggles and carefully put them on over your wizarding clothes!" Well the jacket at least.

She donned her own set of purple driving gear, as she spoke, to demonstrate.

Yes see, Captain Lioness there noticed the essentials are missing. The Ravenclaw's dark eyes can only gaze back incredulously as the Professor basically said no no and no. "So whats the magic in this bus then?" she retorted before the bus just sped off with a jolt.

Well at least it was speeding along like a Knight Bus.

For one who had travelled that way before the brunette thought seatbelts were so unnecessary, but she buckled in anyway, because in her most righteous opinion any bus that claimed to be magical that didnt have beds or hot chocolate or toothbrushes had to be one of lesser magic. And she certainly wasnt taking any risks with her welfare on such standards.

And then there were these things falling from the ceiling. What.... she thought she was on a bus? Whats with this airplane safety procedure demo thing?

Grabbing the blue gear and putting them on anyway. Ugh substandard magic bus. What was she thinking?

Oichi felt giddy with excitement. Her mum introduced her to the Magic School buss when she was just a a wee little one and over the years it became one of her favorite series for their whimsical out if this world adventures. She never dreamed anything like in the books could happen to her and then at 11 she was told she was a witch. Now at 17 she was gonna enter a real magic school bus. It felt like her dreams were coming full circle. Even having the body of her gran could not mellow her mood. She happily took a seat on the bus. Begore she knew it they were off and she was told to put on magget, loves, and muggles, huh? She then saw the cold weather wea she looked toward the profesdor, and realized her hearing must be off, eeek. She knew well it must be some sort of progression of her disease. Still she decided to stay calm and just put on the warm clothes an fastened her seat belt. She wanted to have fun this trip, not deell on an ailment that she had no control over. She looked toward the professor, "So are we taking a trip to North Pole or perhaps tbe Arctic Tundra?".

Sander nudged his shoulder against Tessa glad to see that she was sitting next to him. He quickly clicked his seatbelt together making sure that it was secure before turning to talk with Tessa. But before he could say anything a set of yellow equipment fell on his head.

Scowling at where it had fallen from, Sander quickly took out the jacket, gloves and goggles. He slipped the yellow jacket over his robes, put on the yellow gloves and placed the yellow pair of goggles over his head.

Now he was set to go on a Magical Bus Ride with his girlfriend. "I can show you the world, shiny shimmery splendid...whole new world, a new fantastic point of view..." Sander began softly singing the song that only Tessa could hear.

Bay grabbed his Red gear and looked at them, seriously… this class couldn't get any cooler.. Bay felt bad for his earlier thought on how muggle studies would go.

Pulling on his jacket.. he then put his goggles around his next and put his gloves over his lap, ready to be put on a moments notice.

Adi, seated next to the Dragon (Benny), kept on glancing around. What a cool bus! Maybe he should have paid more attention to the books. It didn't seem that too bad but back then for some reason, it hadn't held his attention for long. He buckled his seat belt.

"Sure is exciting, isn't it, Benny?'' he asked as he followed Hadley's instructions and pulled on jacket, gloves and goggles.

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Ella had just slowly made her way into a seat and was fastening her seatbelt when they were taking off. Zooming off into oblivion, more like. The blonde jerked slightly and hit the window, causing her to groan because OUCH. Why did everything have to move so fast? Recently she'd been thinking that she much rather preferred slow. Maybe she was channeling her turtle, Donatello, or something. Maybe.

As things fell from above them, Ella blinked and covered her head. They were meant to put this stuff on? Okaaaaaay. And P.S., this was like no school bus she'd ever been on.

The eighteen year old very slowly pulled on one of the yellow jackets with lots of difficulty. Moving was a bit of a hassle lately and her arms were sore. Next came a yellow pair of driving gloves. Then the goggles. She was sure she looked silly but really, she was too tired from getting onto the bus to care. Now she could just enjoy the trip, yeah? Yeah.

*catching up* :3
 

Why was she remembering the first field trip in her first year. Merlin Bless Scabior wherever he was. And she probably did remember it because she was very close to that excitment level. She now was trying to maintain her composure. Sixth-year, prefect and all.

Her eyes danced around inspecting the interior of the bus as she listened to the professor answering other's questions.

And they were flying! Not like she never experienced the feeling but being in a muggle bus was cool.

As the items fell, she grabbed herself a green set of equipment and put them on, though her goggled sat on the top of her head for now. "Professor, we can't be seen right?" She was curious about this whole thing.

Once he was finally on the bus he was still super confused. Scratching his nearly bald head he just looked around. "I still don't get it. This is muggle studies, but yet we are on a magic school bus. So does that mean muggles have magic or is this not really muggle studies stuff?" Honestly it was weird to think about. Learning about muggle things but having magic buses. How was that possible.

He found a seat and just looked out the window until the professor said something, "HUH? I CAN'T HEAR YOU?" Was the bus that loud or did his hear just vanish for a moment. Or was playing tricks on them and only moving her lips. Seeing others pull on some odd jacket and gloves he looked around. Was he suppose to use those?

Super confused boy right here...

It is definitely windy inside the bus xD
 

Sander was sitting contentedly with Tessa, Lux and Bay when he suddenly felt the urge. He tried to hold it in as long as he could. He even tried sitting in different positions and holding his tummy. He clenched his muscles, tiny droplets of sweat formed on his brow.

'No this can't be happening. Don't do it Sander. Don't do it," but even as he tried telling himself that, Sander could feel it slipping out. He had lost control.

He farted...only it was a silent one and no one would know he had done it.

Sander immediately put on an innocent face and just continued to look straight ahead.