[The Gardening Club at Promised Morning Academy was in danger of being shut down for lack of members... until Shinsha, the club president, successfully negotiated its survival by agreeing to provide fresh flowers to the equally tiny Ikebana Club. Although their personal preference is for flowers with roots, they dutifully supply the club with flowers from the school's greenhouse, or that they've collected from fields around town. This week, they've brought a bouquet of pink hime-sayuri lilies, which grow wild throughout Tohoku in the early summer.
Shinsha stops suddenly in the doorway of the club room, then takes a step back to check the room number. It's the correct room, but... there's someone new here. A foreign boy. It's rare for anyone to join the Ikebana Club two months into the school year, and it's even rarer for the international students to show an interest in an art form that's mostly practiced by elderly retirees. He must be a new transfer student who got stuck with one of the less popular clubs... which means that he's probably a Dreamer. Shinsha's expression immediately becomes guarded.]
...You must be new here. Do you speak English?
[There are enough international students at the Academy for classes to be taught in both Japanese and English, so Shinsha is fluent in both... although they avoid speaking at school unless they absolutely have to. This is one of those moments, though: the transfer student is about to make a grave mistake.]
You can't use a tall vase at this time of year. June is the rainy season, so you should use a flat, shallow dish to evoke the image of flooded rice fields.
promised morning
Shinsha stops suddenly in the doorway of the club room, then takes a step back to check the room number. It's the correct room, but... there's someone new here. A foreign boy. It's rare for anyone to join the Ikebana Club two months into the school year, and it's even rarer for the international students to show an interest in an art form that's mostly practiced by elderly retirees. He must be a new transfer student who got stuck with one of the less popular clubs... which means that he's probably a Dreamer. Shinsha's expression immediately becomes guarded.]
...You must be new here. Do you speak English?
[There are enough international students at the Academy for classes to be taught in both Japanese and English, so Shinsha is fluent in both... although they avoid speaking at school unless they absolutely have to. This is one of those moments, though: the transfer student is about to make a grave mistake.]
You can't use a tall vase at this time of year. June is the rainy season, so you should use a flat, shallow dish to evoke the image of flooded rice fields.