scorpiodragon
Five Thousand Club
Setting: During the height of the first wizarding war in 1970s.
Date: August 7, 1974
Important Information;
Date: August 7, 1974
Important Information;
- Hogwarts Students out for summer break
- First day of school year Castleboruxo students-August 7th
- Very warm August for England but pleasant 77 F for the high on August 7th
- Hot and muggy in Peru
- Height of the wizarding war
Rufino Agoshtinho
Rufino was enjoying the last week of summer vacation, school starting on August 7th like every year, he and his family currently holiday in him Peru and were visiting Machu Picchu, once a city of the Incas. He had already visited Teresina where students got their supplies for Castleboruxo as well as Nheegatu, a school serving the west coast and south cone of South America which was a smaller school, the students there speaking Spanish. Students in the northeast went to the school in Southern Florida. Though he wasn’t familiar with the name of this school, only knowing they took students from several regions. More importantly, Rufino was glad to not be taking the required flying class anymore but this meant having to choose electives. In the end he had chosen to take Ancient Runes, Ancient Mages of the Americas and Healing. Plus he was already taking Portuguese as it was required for the first three years, even if one were a native Portuguese speaker. This gave him three courses on top of the required nine courses. French he knew from his mother and English had been picked up from television and his pride.
Too soon did summer vacation end and Rufino found himself taking a bus from Yurimaguas, a port town in Peru, to La Huhuaylas, a wizarding village home to squibs and Muggleborn that either left the wizarding world behind or were kicked out. Once there, students would have to take canoes and head down the Amazon river for several miles before beaching their canoes and carrying them and their luggage five and a half miles through the rainforest to reach their school. The canoes would be stored at school until the end of the year. Rufino was quiet on the bus ride, his trunk secured in the cargo hold. Even though summer had ended, he was looking forward to seeing his friends again and helping with the mandatory agriculture at school. Hours passed on the Amazon as the students found cables and shrank their trunks, older students getting in with younger students. Once they were all safely loaded in, canoes would set off for several hours of paddling.
It was methodical work paddling along the winding river but Rufino thought it beautiful and not just because of what he was. In these moments coming to and from school, there were no tribes. Just children having to navigate the dangerous wilderness. After several hours and miles, the students began the trek through the rainforest to their school which was a five and a half mile hike. Upon arriving, their belongings were stored in the small building to the left which would be transported to their respective tribes, the students of Castleboruxo and the staff living in tree houses. They made their way up to the second floor of the small pyramid to the left and to the Banquet Hall, the bottom floor being the Entrance Hall, Kitchens, Grand Hall which was where the sorting took place, a lounge, and classrooms for first to second years. The main building housed the staff lounge, professor offices, a dueling room, classrooms for sixth to ninth years, infirmary, ballroom, a pool, storage and some empty classrooms as well as the library which was three stories and exam/study hall. The third building to the right housed classrooms for third to fifth years, a theater/auditorium for school meetings, extra curricular classrooms, apprentice rooms and visitor quarters. The mail room, Alchemy and Potions labs were also in the building to the right.
Rufino learned when he sat down in the the auditorium that evening that third and fourth years would be getting penpals for the year, a task which could be extended for the remainder of their education, so long as their pen pal was still in school. Having never had a pen pal, he listened as the deputy headmaster described the process. If things went well then fifth years might go in an exchange program for half the year while their own pen pal would come here for the other half the year. It was surprising and Rufino signed up, filling out the form and saying he had no preference on the school or gender of the student, though he did put no higher than 6th year. He had to fill out his own form as well,, this being sent along with the letter he would write.
Name: Rufino Agoshtinho
Age/Gender: 12/Male
Year: 3rd
School: Castleboruxo
Favorite Class: Naturalism
Least Favorite Class: Flying or Defensive Magic
Favorite Color: Green and Blue
Favorite Food:
There wasn’t alot he put in the form as he couldn’t think of what to put. Hopefully it would be enough and he decided to work on the letter after dinner so headed with the other students and staff to the Banquet Hall.
Dear Penpal,
It’s a muggy day outside and after our canoeing and hike to get to school, evening has come which doesn’t bring much relief in the summer heat. I’m a third year at Castleboruxo…that’s in Brazil. I love horses and archery…these taking for activities. Require sport and activity. Help character guess. I guess tell name from form. Rufino. Have pen pal before? New to me, third…fourth…require year…no idea. Escola bola? Ummm…school good for you? What year…Escola in?
Rufino
Rufino finished the letter, more of a note really and folded it with the form before slipping them into a provided envelop, dropping in three Brazilian Cruzeiro of ten denominations each before sealing the envelope but it would not be easy since iy had been a long night and he wanted to sleep. Luckily the new moon wasn’t until the seventeenth.
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OOC:
Escola bola - ‘school good?’
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