[Tuesday, Jan 11th, Lunch, Cafeteria]

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[Luke is in the cafeteria, with the translating collar thinger stuck to his neck: it seems to do a pretty good job of telling others what he is saying, but isn't much help as far as Luke barely understanding any English so far.

Still, he is good spirits, and happy to be free of classes for a little while. He'd only arrived last night, and was late getting to all of his classes today, so he hadn't had a chance to meet anyone, really.

With a tray of food in hand, he looks for a place to sit, or people to talk to. Or maybe just people to listen to. To listen at? Ugh, stupid English.]


((OOC: Mingle intro post for Luke! Also if anyone else wants to be hanging out in the cafeteria for their own purposes, go for it! All are welcome.))

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[rebellingheart]

[Rinoa's already found a table, but as far as she's concerned there's always room for other people. Especially people who look new if the way he's looking around is any indication.

Getting up she walks over and waves at him cheerfully.] Looking for a place to sit? You can sit with me if you want.[Of course in true Rinoa fashion, she doesn't exactly wait for an answer before pulling him towards her table. Welcome to the whirlwind, Luke, enjoy the ride and hope her charade guessing skills are better than her listening skills are.] You're new right? My name's Rinoa.

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Uh- w-whoa! Hey!

[Luke does not exactly mind being dragged around, and doesn't resist much, but he's more than a little surprised to find someone so eager to get acquainted. Since he had arrived on this planet people had mostly kept their distance.

And then she is talking to him, and Luke blinks at her for a few seconds before sorting out 'new' and 'name' which were words he recognized.]

Hi... [The translator as his neck repeated his words in English, Luke still hadn't gotten used to that] I'm Luke. N-Nice to meet you...

[rebellingheart]

[She's not good at this whole 'distant native' thing. It doesn't bother her very much though, she'd much rather have lots of friends. The new guy being cute is just an added bonus.]

Oh. Guess I hadn't considered that you probably speak a different language. [This fact doesn't bother her though, who cares? Since when was talking super important? Because if it was the be all, end all of things Squall would have way more problems than he already did.]

Luke, huh? Nice to meet you. Have you been here very long? [She waves cheerfully to cement the whole 'nice to meet you' concept before sliding back into her seat. Really Rinoa should be thanking him. She'd almost been tempted to pull out a math book and do some homework over lunch and who wants that?]

I'm sure you'll learn the language soon enough, everyone seems to do a pretty good job of picking it up. Apparently we've got some really good teachers here.

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[Luke's face became steadily more uncertain as she kept talking, and he inwardly cursed this translator for not working in reverse. He had never been all that smart, and picking up a completely new language out of no where wasn't that easy.

As it was, he had no idea what she'd asked, though he could tell from the tone of her voice that there had been a question.]

Sorry... [Might as well start there] I can't understand much yet, I only got to this planet a few weeks ago, and well... learning a totally new language is hard. Um, you said your name was... Rinoa?

[rebellingheart]

[For someone who couldn't understand her, he did a great job of answering her questions. That's convenient.]

I've never tried to teach someone before, but I'll help you if you want? How hard can it be? I've been speaking this language all my life.

[Fortunately for she's not really expecting him to understand most of what she's saying. So long as the I'll help you part gets through she'll be more than happy.]

[Sorry for lateness, got eaten by life]

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Uh...

[Luke blinked slowly at hard, he caught a few words that sounded familiar, but not many of which he actually knew the meaning to, and all together he couldn't figure out any idea of what she'd just said. He gave up and hung his head with a sigh]

Sorry.

Hey, life happens. S'cool. We've all been there.

[rebellingheart]

[Realizing that he hadn't gotten any of that, she makes a face and then tries for a new tactic. Picking up the Apple from her tray, she hands it to him with a smile.]

Apple.

[A very basic, to the point "This is what we call this here" that hopefully might get the point across better than a long speech. If not she'd have to start naming other things at random and hope he caught on sooner or later.] Really, she's probably not the best candidate for a teacher position of any sort.]

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[This game, Luke at least knew, he repeats the word, with a bit of an accent]

Apple.

Thanks.

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I just wanted to help, being alone and not understanding a lot of things must be pretty scary.

[She smiles at that, really brightening up with cheer. Why hadn't she just done it that way to begin with? So this of course shall continue until she's named everything at their table and then probably some of their surroundings toobut mun is way too lazy to actually do so..]