Thread Roulette: Kids Love Pride

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Even the local elementary school is in on Pride! The kindergartners are doing rainbow themed art projects, and Cici Rivers and Caleb Xue have been excused from classes for the afternoon to help supervise.

[Caleb Xue]

Caleb was over the moon for the volunteer project he was currently assigned to. He got to spend the day with little elementary kids. It was easy enough to show up on time and stay for the time. He was a part time student at the community college. Luckily today he did have a class.

Caleb reported to the principal's office. The principal went over which classroom and what the students would be doing. The principal show Caleb and a young girl to the classroom.

Upon entering the classroom some students were unfazed by the present of Caleb and the teen. Other students looked unsure about the two strangers standing in their classroom. Caleb happily greeted the students with a big smile, "Hello everyone. I'm Caleb. And I'm going to be helping out the class today." He wasn't even going to try having the students call him Mr. Xue. Adults had enough trouble pronouncing his name.

[Cianna "Cici" Rivers]

Cici was happy. Very happy. Not only did she get to miss out on class, but she got to spend the day with kids, which she loved. Yay! To make things even sweeter, was the fact that they were going to be doing rainbow art, which sounded like a lot of fun! She knew she was meant to be supervising, but Cici vaguely wondered if she would be allowed to join in. 

Arriving at the principal's office to get shown her class, Cici smiled briefly at the older looking boy who she was supposedly going to be supervising with, before following the principal and listening with an interested smile on her face. 

When the other boy introduced himself as Caleb, Cici distantly noted that he wasn't shy, and seemed quite happy to be helping. Awesome, it would have sucked if she had been stuck with an unenthusiastic and moody person. Smiling at the class sweetly, she tacked onto the end of Caleb's introduction, "'nd I'm Cici! I'm also h'lping out, hope we c'n all get along well and have fun!" Her New Zealand accent was prominent. Offering the class a small wave, the short girl grinned happily, then realized she hadn't even properly talked to the person she was supervising with. Quickly turning to him, she smiled and offered her hand. "Nice ta meetcha, Caleb! Hopef'lly we won' look like rainbows ourselves when we leave, neh?" Laughing slightly, she idly thought she probably would leave a lot more colourful than how she looked now. 

[Caleb Xue]

Caleb noted Cici's name and her accent. It seemed like the two were going to a boatload of fun with the kiddies. Caleb shook Cici's hand. "Same here. I already got a start on that." He pointed to his red dyed hair. He just needed the other six colors and he would be set. "Shall we get started?" He motioned to the class of little people.

He went over to a short table. Instead of sitting in a little chair, Caleb kneeled on the floor. He talked to the kids. He asked them for their names and what they were doing. The table the college student was at was painting rainbows. Caleb wondered how much the kids knew about Pride. And what the Pride was for. Caleb looked over at Cici. A big bright smile was plastered on his face.

[Cianna "Cici" Rivers]

Cici laughed as the boy pointed to his red hair, and nodded in amusement. "Suits ya though!" She said, liking the color. She herself had been considering dyeing her hair for some time, and had thought it would be cool to put streaks of soft purple in it, or perhaps dip dye her hair, but as of yet she wasn't completely sure.

Nodding as Caleb went over to one of the tables, Cici herself went to another one and knelt down, folding her legs underneath herself. The kids were spreading glitter over their rainbows, to match the paint underneath. "Heya ev'ryone! This looks like fun, anyone need any help?" She asked brightly, and turned as a small girl hesitantly asked her if she would be doing work too. Unsure, Cici shrugged as the kids pushed a piece of paper at her, giggling, and she smiled, thinking of what to do for a second. The other kids had already painted, and she would have had to go to the another table to paint, so she decided to take the glue and swirled various patterns with a traditional Maori influence.

The kids around her peered at her curiously, watching her work and asking questions. She interacted with them all patiently and happily, glad that she got to miss class to do something like this. Finally, she asked the children to each take a handful and sprinkle some glitter on it, then the girl held the paper over a pot on the table and let the excess glitter fall into it. The glitter the children around her had sprinkled on caught the glue and sparkled, revealing the patterns she had artfully drawn on. Smiling, stood up and moved to hang it up to dry, glancing at Caleb and waving at him as she did so. Then, she returned to her table to help the Kidd with their work some more.

[Caleb Xue]

Caleb happily encouraged and praised the students for their work, even if one of them had the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. As long as the kid was happy then that was fine. It was art. Everything and anything was correct in art. Caleb also painted a rainbow. He had the kids direct him on how and he should paint the rainbow. It was most certainly not a traditional rainbow.

A kid tucked on Caleb's shirt with the need to go to the bathroom. Luckily, it was male student telling the young man. He told the teacher he was going to on a bathroom break with those who needed to go. He went to the front of the classroom. "Everyone could be listen for a moment." He waited a moment for everyone's attention, or at least most everyone. "If you need to go to the bathroom, please line up." At least half of the class lined up. Caleb took the line of students to bathroom down the hall.