An hour after the start of the Jaunt, asking important questions

[naturaltwohands]

... I suspect these questions may be on the minds of others, and it is on mine because it obvious differs much from the one of my childhood:

What is it like to attend a school? What should we know about it? What is expected of us? Are our studies canceled right now?

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[eldritchwheelies]

Based on my experience with American schools, reading some books that I'm suspiciously reminded of, and having been a Lone Star student until I got woken up?

There's a set schedule of classes, set to the school clock and calendar. If you haven't gotten one you'll be given one, and expected to memorize it and be on time. Generally they're 9 in the morning to 3 or 4 in the afternoon, except on weekends.

In addition to specialized art classes of your choice, you'll be expected to attend basic grammar and math classes based on earlier classes you 'should have' passed, and some foreign language and science classes as well. Chemistry, physics, stuff more to teach you how to think like a scientist and repeating famous experiments than learning your own stuff.

You'll be expected to do some work between classes. Sometimes the math class doesn't know what the lit class is doing and they both assign way too much. No, this isn't fair. Don't worry about doing perfectly, you're allowed to make some mistakes, getting less than perfect marks isn't the end of the world and we don't have authority figures to bitch about it.

[naturaltwohands]

This is all very, very helpful, but I suspect that I may, in fact, be entirely doomed.

I have never learned anything about art, math, or science. Foreign languages I can pick up quickly, and I am used to a set schedule for these sorts of things, but the rest... It is all beyond my realm of experience. And I have been told of tests, but I cannot even picture what one looks like!