[ open ] Welcome to Chile, Cadets.

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Location: Valparaíso Shatterdome, Chile.
Date/Time: February 15th-28th.
Summary: The first shipment of recruits into the new Jaeger Academy program arrive. Some are staggered throughout the month, but they all have the same basic greeting. Here you are, there's where you sleep, here's what you wear, get going.
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The Shatterdome didn't look futuristic, swatches of metal and concrete transforming a portion of the harbor into five enormous bays. Nevermind that only two were currently in use. The stark greys stand out against the colorful face of the city, a hulking monolith that's been carved into the face of the city that had once upon a century been termed the Jewel of the Pacific.

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[spareheir]

(Yeah. sorry. I didn't realize until too late too. I caught it in time to delete one thread but not this one so um...yep. Maybe I'll put up a blurb on his journal with his age and background info. I was thinking about doing it anyway, and it would help not to cause folds in the universe like this. What if we say he tumbled out of the bunk across the hall or something and he's just standing in the doorway? That might be technically breaking none of the rules.)

"Hmm, that's probably true." Kou agreed, thoughtfully. Most of the people here seemed to be pretty far from home.

He couldn't exactly ask Luke where he was from, because he knew already. Of course he knew. Even a few years later and with a new haircut, it was easy to pick Luke out in the crowd. His father had been all over the news once, and to a lesser extent, so had Luke. Which meant that asking what brought him there was also out of the question.

Kou paused awkwardly for a moment, shier than he usually was around strangers, as he grappled for something to say. "I don't know very much Spanish, do you?"

[heliokleptic]

"I took a class once..." Luke offers, fully aware of how lame that sounds. Then shrugs a bit self consciously. "Maybe it's for the best we barely get to leave the base. We can't embarrass ourselves too much until we've taken the Spanish class."

Honestly, it was probably Kou's good luck that Luke isn't that aware of subtleties. He hadn't reacted badly so Luke assumed Kou didn't recognize him and was happy to run with that.

"I'm going to miss my cell phone, though. They're really putting the camp in boot camp up here." He did manage to miss the fact that they had a solid roof over their heads probably made this all pretty far removed from 'camping'.

[spareheir]

"Isn't that standard?" Kou responds, surprised by the complaint. He'd been expecting to have his possessions revoked for the initial training, but apparently it had been an unhappy surprise to some. That's too bad. Even if this guy is being a little dramatic about it, maybe he likes to keep close contact with people. It's going to be a big adjustment for most of them, and especially for anyone who's used to being glued to their technology or who doesn't have a lot of physical activity in their typical daily lives.

Maybe it's safer to stick with the subject of Spanish. Even if the elder cadets are still the same rank, it feels like a bad idea to say anything that might be construed as an insult. "Someone told me they let us go explore every weekend, so I think there's enough time to make fools of ourselves before we learn better."