Disclaimer: I don't own Alanna or Jon duh Tamora Pierce gets all the credit for that. I don't own the school obviously or my friends but they are mine for the story oh and of course I own Jess, I am Jess, I own myself.

Oregon Experience

Ch.6 SIM

"We've got five minutes till class starts and this so happens to be my favorite class, it's actually fun." Jess went to the back of the room and sat down in front of Fonzie's cage.

"This is Fonzie, he's Mr. Mole's pet iguana. Over there are his three piranhas, don't put your finger in the water, they're flesh eating fish, in the tank to the left of the fish there are walking sticks, and on the other side of the room is something you'll love Lanna."

Jess led Jon and Lanna over to a small two-gallon fish tank, inside it had a small water dish and a bunch of rocks and sticks propped up for climbing. There was sticky shiny thread all over and in the center was a large brown spider. As soon as Lanna saw what was in the tank she yelped and returned to the other side of the room and her desk.

Trying to hide her laughter Jess explained to Jon that Mr. Mole had gotten one spider and then started to collect a few more. There were about four spiders in all and they were brought various students.

Walking back over to Lanna, Jess sat down and motioned for Jon to do the same, Lanna was already sitting.

"Ok we're in the middle of taking a test so I guess you get to just sit and wait for class to be over."

"What kind of test?" Lanna and Jon looked at each other and laughed, they both had said the same thing.

"We have to perform an experiment based on Osmosis. My partner and I are using chicken eggs. You could also use potatoes or celery."

"What's osmosis?" Lanna had no clue what Jess was talking about.

"I don't think you would understand, an besides its kind of hard to explain."

"Oh alright."

The bell tolled and the rest of the class came in. The first Erik, a kid in class did was go over to the piranhas tank and looked to Mr. Mole, "Mr. Mole can I feed the piranhas?"

With a nod from Mr. Mole Erik got a goldfish from another small tank and dropped it into the piranha's tank. Once the class heard what he was doing they all went to watch.

"Ok people the bell rang so you should be in your seats. Ms. Clover who are your friends and why aren't they in class?"

"This is Alanna Trebond, and Jonathan Conte, they're on an exchange from England and are both in this class."

"Ok then have a seat and we'll get started. Today we're taking a break from testing and we're going to watch a movie about evolution in the Galapagos Islands."

"Yes we don't have to work on our stupid projects!" Lanna and Jon looked at me and smiled, they both knew that getting "free" time was always a cause of excitement.

"And here are your questions. I want them back by the end of class." Mr. Mole passed out the questions on green paper and then turned the movie on.

Lanna and Jon watched the movie with interest and wonder. There were so many animals they had never seen before, turtles, iguanas, except for Fonzie, and penguins. After a wile they began to answer the questions on the green sheet.

When the movie was over there was only five minutes left in class. Mr. Mole took up the green sheets and told the class they could do what ever they wanted but couldn't leave till the bell rang.

"So what did you think of the movie?" Jess saw the looks of awe and confusion and decided that was answer enough.

"Ok then, we've got lunch next an we're going to Safeway, it's a market, and then we'll meet up with Kelso, and Chay. Lunch is about forty minutes long then we get to be tortured by Ms. Dunn in Equine Science, witch by the way Jon you will be the only guy in the class except for the teachers assistant."

"Why am I the only guy?"

"Because guys don't usually like to take Equine Science it's to "girlie" and they would rather take engineering."

"Oh."

"Oh is right. Anyways what do you guys want for…" Jess didn't get to finish as she was pushed towards the door by the flow of kids leaving the classroom for lunch.

Once Jon and Lanna caught up with Jess they headed to Safeway. "Oh shit I forgot to tell you I'm in Track so we'll be staying after school."

"Fine with us but what's Track?" Lanna nor Jon had ever heard of such a thing.

"Tracks a sport. You can do throwing events, running events, and jumping events. I throw Javelin, and run short and long distance. Chay also throws Javelin and she also throws disk and shot. I'm thinking I have an extra pair of shorts and a shirt for Lanna, and Jon you can borrow a pair of shorts and use the shirt you have on.'

"So its like training but for fun?" Lanna was thinking it sounded familiar.

"Yeah kind of but there are no weapons… so it's more like conditioning then knights training."

Ok so I know it's been over a year since I last updated I'm soooooo sorry but School and work have had me on my toes an I'm also sry for the cliffie but thats all I have writen seriously...please R&R