"Introductions out of the way the headmaster told us you are to be the student council this year" Mr. Semenov stated, "Isn't student council supposed to be an elected position?" Darren asked, "People with talent should always be in power" Mr. Kozlov stated. "Well wouldn't that be a student dictatorship then?" Darren asked, the instructors ignored him and continued, Anya was appointed president while Darren was vice president, Ito and Jeanne were secretary and treasurer. Jon was appointed the council and Aleksi was appointed as the historian, "What qualifications does the eskimo have" Jon asked derisively "I'd make a better vice president then that bumpkin." "Positions are final" Mr. Semenov said "re-elections will happen next year if you think you are better then prove it over the course of the year."
The instructors led the group to the student council office, turns out the work room Anya and Darren wrote the address in was actually the room they'd be working in for over the next year, "I guess calling it a work room wasn't wrong then" Darren mused, Anya rolled her eyes. "Become familiar with this room you'll all be using it over the next year" Mr. Semenov said, "We'll be back to retrieve you after your lunch break.
The group took off their packs and sat around the table, Jeanne sat next to Darren, "I enjoyed your silly joke at the entrance ceremony, it was about puns being not funny no?" she asked. Anya started to laugh and Darren shushed her "Something like that" he lied, Jon made an annoyed sound "You thought it was hilarious you no humor hack," "What's your problem, you lost get over it you child" Darren snapped at him. Jon starts to stand up but Aleksi puts a hand on his shoulder, "Lets try to get along shall we?" he asked "We have to spend the next year together we should try to be friends." Darren decided there was no point in losing his temper over some arrogant yankee so he let it go, "So have you ever played any sports Aleksi?" Darren asked "I heard some of the regular students talking before, seems this school has a few pretty good teams." "Yeah was wanting to join the Rugby team, didn't know I was going to be dropped into the student council like this though, there might not be time," "Most of the sports clubs are after school so you should be fine" Anya stated. "Ms. Itami, you are fairly quiet no? would you like to join our chat?" Jeanne asked, Ito looked a little nervous as she asked "Are either of you interested in the gymnastics club?" "Not me!" Anya stated definitively "I did gymnastics in France, it was quite enjoyable, you need great flexibility" Jeanne replied, Darren noticed Anya stifle a comment. "I'd like to try it" Ito said in a very small voice. "Then lets join together yes?" Jeanne said happily. As they finished up their lunches the instructors returned, Jon still seemed to be fuming from earlier since he hadn't spoken up since.
The remainder of the school tour went by fairly fast, the instructors took them to the training facilities which were fairly elaborate, one of them was built to model an office building, after the tour Dmitri and Andrei turned them back over to the main group.
They were headed towards a separate building around the back of the school, "This building is the student dorms" Anya said walking up next to Darren "The right side is for boys the left for girls." Darren noticed Anya stifle a comment again which he found curious. "I was wondering if you would meet up with me in the library before class tomorrow?" Anya asked, "I can explain what a vice president does." Darren considered the offer for a moment "Yeah I'd appreciate it I've never really been interested in this kind of thing before so I don't really know what I need to do." Anya appeared elated "Okay! I'll see you tomorrow," Anya ran off back towards the front of the group. The girls and boys were separated into two groups in the lobby of the dorms and led into the different parts of the building.
The rooms were fairly large, just a bit smaller then Darren's hotel room, his belongings had already been hauled by Genetech staff to his dorm, He began to sort the boxes between what he needed now and what he would set up later. He pondered the events of the day as he set about the task, Jon was going to be a problem that arrogant prick, he would only be able to put up with the blatant insults for so long. Ito seemed fairly shy she would need to come out of her shell a bit if she wanted to succeed here, Aleksi was surprisingly super friendly, from his past experience the large athletic types are usually as bad as what Jon is. Jeanne is a charming young lady her accent makes it somewhat hard to understand her though, and Anya is probably the most friendly and positive girl he had ever met. Darren pulled one of his air rifles out of a box as he looked over it he remembered the marksmanship range, it was fairly well put together, it was also right next to the office building replica so if he got permission he might be allowed to practice from one of the buildings windows. Darren finished arranging the last few things he'd need immediately when his communicator went off, "vnimaniye" an unknown voice said.
Darren crawled out of bed feeling unusually exhausted, "I got to bed early last night, why do I feel like I just ran a marathon" he thought to himself, he walked over to his small kitchen and put on a pot of coffee. The time to meet Anya was in another hour, the library wasn't far so he guessed he had time to have a cup of coffee and have a look at the news, he filled a cup and turned on the tv. The news was continuing on the story involving the Kurotaka Industries and Earthwave Energies joint project which was attacked on Alpha Kojo, the terrorists involved seem to have been expertly trained. They abducted several of the scientists and engineers working on the project, its test pilot had also been taken, a relative of both CEO's, Darren flicked the tv off having finished his coffee, he got dressed and set out despite it being a bit early yet.
Despite being called a library physical copies of books were rare, it was more like a computer lab, there were a few of what you could call bookshelves but they were lined with empty tablets which you could load a book onto rather than actual books. He spotted Anya sprawled out on a couch a book in her hands, she was slightly flushed with a big smile on her face, Darren wondered if she might be getting sick he took a look at the time and he was still twenty minutes early. Anya rolled onto her side and spotted Darren, "You're early" she said "Well you know, early bird, worm, that kind of thing, I guess in this case it would be bookworm though" he said jokingly. Anya threw a couch cushion at him a slight pout on her face, "What were you reading that had you so entranced" he asked. "None of your business" Anya retorted "Jeez I thought I would have more time to read" she whined playfully, "Well we should get to it, we don't want to have to be russian to class after all" Darren said. Anya stared at Darren a blank expression on her face, Darren smiled back at her, she continued the stare "Really" she said, "Yup" Darren responded, "You have an illness for which there is no cure" she said shaking her head.
Once they got down to it the duties of the student council weren't actually that complicated, most of the work would be planning out the various school events and talking to the faculty on behalf of the teachers. They would have to deal with proposals class's brought to them as well and decide if they'd be able to make them work and take a vote on what's doable and what isn't, yearbook planning also fell under their yearly tasks. "Well that doesn't seem to hard" Darren stated, Anya clearly wanted to say something there, Darren could tell but she didn't, he gave her a quizzical look "That about covers what we needed to go over." "You'll be able to help me now at lunch period when we talk to the others about their duties as part of the council" Darren took note of her changing the subject but let it go. It was getting pretty close to time for class so the two packed up their things and made their way to the classroom, the whole class was already there by the time they arrived.