#imagining their poor choreographer (s?) trying to teach them...

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Soonyoung crushing on you !! // scenario

A bullet-point scenario highlighting our bright star, Soonyoung/Hoshi !!

Send requests for scenarios and reactions on my page if you wish :)

- special shout out to our hosh rn bc this poor boy is sick and he could use all the healing time he can get (stay healthy and rest, love <333)

- this sweetie is honestly one of the most hard working people e v e r

- he pushes himself so much

- and we know that he’s tough on the members when practicing but I’m sure that’s only because:

- 1. he knows the potential of his friends

- 2. he cares about the future of svt

- Soonyoung is just so caring to the point that it hurts him sometimes???

- I’m glad he’s resting because we all know he needs it, as do the rest of the members (especially with this crazy tour schedule they’re in the middle of)

- so really, I honor Soonyoung for everything he does, and he deserves only the best out of his career ;u;

- and with this I’m sure he’d only want to be the best version of himself for the girl he likes as well

- his determination in furthering his career would be the same when it comes to pursuing his crush

- with that said, let’s get right into the scenario !!!

- as an intern at pledis entertainment, you find yourself becoming close friends to 3 specific members of a particular svt unit:

- Channie, Savhao, and Junnie ! 

- you get to know these three performance unit boys individually, but you never get to hang out with them altogether

- so one day, your little friends tell you that it’s about time all four of you meet up once and for all

- but because of your crazy schedules, there’s really no other time to do this besides the performance team practice time

- at first you think, “hey it’d be kind of cool to see them choreographing n practicing n whatnot!”

- thing is

- there’s one member you haven’t exactly bonded with/talked to like you did with the rest of the performance team:

- Kwon Soonyoung

- thinking it would be awkward for the team leader to see you hanging out with his team, you often pushed off the idea of visiting their practices

- no matter how many times the three boys begged you to come

- you just couldn’t say yes

- you’d feel bad but you’d try to convince them that it’s for the best

- and besides, the practice is meant for them to practice, not to chat around with some intern (not like they would mind tho lol)

- imagine pouty chanhaojun @ you bc iSN’T IT JUST THE MOST ADORABLE THING???

- ANYWAYS, after much thinking, the three guys figure that there’s really no way they’d be able to hang out with you as a group unless they invite you over to practice

- so they get s n e a k y

- kind of

- okay not really

- during one of your shifts, Chan texts you:

- “y/n!! are you free right now?”

- “yeah, what’s up?”

- “can you come down to the practice room rn?”

- “you guys aren’t having practice right now, right?”

- “*suspicious eyes emojis*”

- “Chan, how many times do I have to tell you that I don’t want to intrUDE??” “I’m sorry, but I won’t go if you guys are busy.”

- “WAIT LISTEN LISTEN” “we actually need someone to give their opinion on this part of the choreography we’re coming up with... and we were wondering if you could take a look?”

- “uhhhhh... don’t yall have a creatives director... and an assistant choreographer LMAO”

- “yes yes but we want to know what girls like you would think of it you know :(”

- “sigh”

- “come on, just do us a favor” “and doing us this favor means you’re technically not intruding :3″

- “... fine.”

- “NDNFBLSJADFHBJ YAY OMG” “HURRY HURRY”

- so you head to the practice room, and as soon as you walk in:

- “Y/N-IE~” the boys greet you in excitement

- well except Soonyoung but

- he gives you a smile and a curt bow at least

- you give him a bow and a formal greeting as well, but that’s just about as much interaction you’ll have with him

- at first :3

- your three friends honestly just wanted you to be with them, and they finally found an excuse to bring you over to practice

- but you proved to be more helpful during their practice than they had all expected

- you gave pretty good constructive criticism on some of the dance moves and even gave a few suggestions for formations

- and your little trio LOVED IT

- but you know who appreciated your help the most?

- OFC IT’S HOSHI

- it was very nice to have another person give their opinion on the team’s choreography

- and it’s not just another professional choreographer or director doing it either

- it’s a normal person (I mean this in a good way :)

- and he thinks you’ve got a good eye for things that even the pros couldn’t catch themselves

- Soonyoung also realized how much nicer/less stressed he was when you were there helping out

- so all in all, he was really glad you came

- in fact:

- “hey, Jun, Minghao, Chan,” Soonyoung calls the rest of the team as they convene for practice the day after your visit

- the three boys turn to him

- “do you guys think... we could have y/n down here again? You know, just to help out again?” the leader looks down and paces shyly back and forth, but his face is blank

- “WAIT ARE YOU SERIOUS?” Jun says as his eyes widen in disbelief

- “yeah, of course,” Soonyoung is trying to keep his cool composure

- “YES YES WE’LL CALL HER RIGHT NOW !!”

- so they call you up to invite you once again, and since your three friends had expressed their gratitude for your help after practice yesterday, you agree to go

- you arrive at the practice room and are greeted warmly not only by your little trio

- but also by Soonyoung, who flashes a wider smile than the day before

- and it goes like this for almost every performance team practice you can attend from then on

- over time, Soonyoung would start to notice that you’re not the average, serious intern who’s just doing her job (and a little extra for their team)

- there’s a reason why his fellow team members have become so close to you

- they’re all so fond of your positive nature, understanding, honesty, and ofc your fun personality

- and these things are what draw Soonyoung to you

- if he’s being honest, he’d say he’s been attracted to you since he first saw you walking around the company building

- but your whole personality confirmed how much he was beginning to really like you

- YALL KNOW IT’S TIME TO DISCUSS SOONYOUNG’S CRUSHING HABITS:

- he’s honestly not like the rest of the members when it comes to crushing

- he’s kind of a mix of flirty and shy but you won’t be able to tell when he’s gonna be which???

- it can be confusing tbh

- like if you give him a compliment on some solo dance he made for himself, he could either go:

- 1. “oh reAlly??” *smirk* “was it... attractive? ;)”

- 2. “oh... really?” *blushes* “thank you~” *smiles at floor*

- but I’d say he’d be pretty shy 70% of the time at the start, and then he’d slowly get more flirty as you guys become closer friends

- speaking of being close friends, Soonyoung would also put so much effort into becoming your best friend

- because he wants to confess to you knowing that you’re close to him

- so even if you reject him, he knows there’s a chance that you guys can still be friends at least

- the last thing he wants to do is lose you altogether :(

- ALSO, ONE SUPER DUPER BIG THING that Soonyoung would do with his crush is force her to dance with him

- yeaH that’s right, get your dancing shoes on bc this boy will beg and beg until you agree to dance something with him

- even if you can’t dance, he’ll still really want you to do it

- it’s just a way for him to get skinship moments with you tbh slick shit hosh, real slick

- he’ll teach you the basics first and then progress into harder and more partner-based choreos ;);)

- so you’ll be slowly building up a whole dance routine collection with your bestie !! how cute :’)

- when he’s on flirt mode, Soonyoung is a huge tease we all know this

- the cute things he’ll do to get you flustered during your dance routines would either make you laugh or make you super weak omg

- he wouldn’t hesitate to take any opportunity to suddenly pull you close while dancing, and he’ll probably charm you with a smile while he’s at it

- and as he gets used to meeting up with you to dance,

- Soonyoung would want to spend time with you A LOT MORE OFTEN

- but only with you

- so oftentimes, after performance team practice, the other three dancers would hang out for a little bit in the practice room

- but Soonyoung would be itching to hang out with you and work on your dance routine alone in the room

- so he’d be awkwardly standing to the side as the trio plays around before he musters enough courage to say:

- “uh, hey guys,” he’d clear his throat. “I kinda- I mean, y/n and I- we want to... you know...”

- “oH, do whAt?” Jun wiggles his eyebrows. Chan and Minghao laugh along

-  “HEY WE’RE JUST GONNA HANG OUT OURSELVES OKAY?”

- “Soonyoung’s making me do a dance with him again,” you’d explain

- “WAIT YOU GUYS DANCE TOGETHER???”

- “Wtf Soonyoung, you didn’t tell them?” you say

- “hey hey, you didn’t tell them either,” Soonyoung would laugh nervously

- and when the three boys finally get kicked out by Hoshi, the trio would probably tell the rest of the members about this out of saltiness lma0

- a few members would start to interrogate him about his crush, and he’d probably deny it every damn time it’s so obvious you ain’t fooling anyone buddy

- but when Soonyoung starts getting the feeling that you might like him as well, he’ll probably openly admit it to the group one day

- he’d show up pretty late to an svt meeting that Seungcheol is holding in the practice room

- “Soonyoung, why are you always so late nowadays?” Seungcheol would say in an upset tone

- “he was probably just hanging out with y/n again,” Chan would say bitterly

- “yeah, what a best friend stealer,” Jun would pout

- “hey man, y/n is my best friend,” Minghao would hit Jun in the arm

- “okay but who became her firST friend?? Das right, it was mE,” Chan would join in the fight

- “alright alright, that discussion can be held somewhere else at some other time,” Seungcheol would stop them. “Soonyoung, seriously, what’s going on? Is this about y/n?”

- “yeah dude,” Seokmin would say. “If you really like her, just admit it already.”

- “no one’s buying it when you say you don’t,” Wonwoo adds and the rest if the boys nod in agreement

- “UGH FINE, YES I DO LIKE Y/N, OKAY?”

- “and I’m sorry for always being late to these kinds of meetings and practices lately. I just really like her okay?”

- “I’m putting all this effort into hanging out with her because I really don’t want to lose her. 

- “You guys know how I am when I’m serious about pursuing something.”

- the whole group goes silent. Seungcheol thinks it over

- “Normally,” Seungcheol starts. “I wouldn’t let this kind of thing slide with me, but I can tell you really like y/n, so I’ll forgive you.”

- “But let me tell you, if she’s willing to spend that much time with you, she probably likes you too.”

- with this, Soonyoung finally decides that it’s time to confess

- one night, your hangout with Soonyoung extended a little later at night than usual, meaning you’d have to walk home to your apartment alone in the dark

- but ofc Soonyoung, being the caring person he is, would want to accompany you home, just to make sure you get there safely

- and while you guys are walking home, Soonyoung’s heart can’t help but flutter while seeing you smile at your conversation under the street lights at night

- he’d be falling so hard at this point, he’ll have to do something about it

- and as a dancer, he’s not one to tell you how he feels with words

- so when you get to your apartment, you unlock your door

- but before you can twist the door open

- he impulsively takes one of your wrists, pulls you close, and locks his lips with yours in a passionate kiss

- and you, unable to fight back the feelings you have for Soonyoung as well, kiss him back

- breathless, he pulls away from you afterwards and looks deeply into your eyes, your faces just a few inches apart

- having noticed you kissed him back, he asks

- “Is it safe to say that the feeling is mutual?”

- “why else do you think I agreed to dance with you?” you laugh 

- he breaks out into a huge smile before pulling you in for another kiss

[victoriareiscv]

Educational Revolution

 by Victoria Reis 

Educational Systems nowadays are failing in the objective of educate kids to the future; it’s not only in United State of America but in almost all the others countries. School’s major idea is to prepare students to college. In its name, schools focus in the "important" subject and so creativity had been killed, and be different is the synonymous of have difficulties. Everything change with time, systems improve to adapt to a new society, news ideas, news studs; but the educational system is the same since the 20’s. It is time for innovations, it’s time for changes, and it’s time to a reinvention of the education. Schools today don’t accepted mistakes, and this make kids freighted to be wrong, they don’t take risks or try innovated because in their head the worst thing that you can do is being wrong. How schools do that? Students are almost “punished” to being wrong. With their score the school say who the good students are and who aren’t; but the problem with that is that this score is based in tests that are the same for people with different abilities, different capacity. So how could be fear all this students “compete” together in the same way? And the biggest problem with this method of education is that kids will grow up in a system that make them try to be the same, try to have the same abilities, in others words, this system kill the idea of diversity and so creativity. “Every education system has the same hierarchy of subject. Children grow up; we start to educate them progressively from waist up. And then we focus on their heads. "... And slightly to one side” (Ken Robinson. “How schools kill creativity”). This hierarchy of subjects is the same in all the schools around the world, and it’s rooted in two ideas, first the “useful” subjects for work are in the top and then the idea of the academic ability, what colleges want to see in students’ grades. With this hierarchy brilliant, creative people think they are not, they don’t fit in this “categories” or “expectations”, their abilities are underestimated. And these systems result in the lack of interest in students, they are boring in school, some of them droop, they don’t understand the chances that they have and they don’t take advantage as they should of this opportunity, the opportunity of public education. And with the many standardized tests “…we are creating a generation that hates reading and feels nothing but hostile for literature” (Luzer, Daniel). We are creating a generations that thinks education is a duty, not a right. In history we have some examples of notable people who didn’t fit in the educational system in that time; Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Elton John, Harry Houdini, even Albert Einstein, and so many others. These people were different from the others, they thought different and they didn’t fit in the system where everybody needs to think and do the same things. Today doctors would put many of them in medications and say that they have ADHD, dyslexia or other brain disorder, but they did what they did, they are notable people that are essential for the world history because of this “disorders”, because they are different. How many others brilliant people could do something like that if they have the opportunity to be different? To think outside the box, without anyone says what they supposed to do, think or how they supposed to learn? Without anyone say that they need some medication to be cable of be like everyone else. One example is Gillian Lynne, a famous choreographer, who did “Phantom of the Opera” and others classics. When she was eight years old, in the 30’s, her school told her parents that maybe Gillian had a learning disorder, because she couldn’t concentrate, was fidgeting, and disturbing people, and her homework was always late. Her mother took her to see a specialist. “She was led and sat on this chair at the end; she sat on her hands for 20 minutes. In the end, the doctor said to Gillian that…” (Robinson, Ken “How schools kill creativity”) he needs to speak with her mother in private and told her to wait there. He turned on the radio and he and her mother went out of the room, and watch Gillian. Gillian was on her feet, moving to the music, the doctor after a few minutes turned to her mother and said, “Gillian isn’t sick; she is a dancer. Take her to a dance school”. And then she is who she is, she made what she made. Probable the majority of the doctors today would say that she had ADHD, and maybe taking medication and trying to fit in the normal schools she would never found out her true passion. Picasso once said: “All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up” and some educations kill children’s talent. Other important facts that schools do that are not working how supposed to do are the standardized test. This type of test makes pressure in the students, it's more than one subject in the same time, generally information from different grades together and they test the memorization of the students, not the real knowledge. Its common “good students” been badly in this test because they are also about lucky, they are important tests; if in that day you are not “well” and do bad, this grade would have a big influence in your studies. Studies proved some important facts about how the brain work, first “Every brain is wired differently. What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like. Regions of the brain develop at different rates in different people. The brain of school children is just as unevenly developed as their bodies.” (Parrish, Shane). The second one it is that we really don’t pay attention to boring things, and multi-tasking make your error rate goes up 50% and you takes twice long to do things. And the other one is that stressed brains don’t learned the same way; there is two things that cause stress, a great deal is expected of you and you have no control over whether you will perform well. And the standardized test go against these threes facts; test everyone in the same way, cause stress in students and by been a long test with a lot of information make boring and in cert point the student stop paying attention. Nowadays we have two successful, but opposed educational models that are considered the best education systems in the world: South Korea and Finland. The Korean’s model is based in hard work; the classes are 12 hours per day, six days in the week. “Talent is not a consideration. There’s no excuse for failure” (Choi, Amy), Korea's culture is much disciplined. But the pressure under these students is enormous and unrelenting, and there’s a big percent of suicide in this country. The other model is the Finnish, the model “utopia”, with low-stress culture and learning of different languages. “Finland has a short school day rich with school-sponsored extracurricular, because Finns believe important learning happens outside the classroom.” (Choi, Amy); education for them is about creating identity. These two systems even been so different share a deep respect for teachers and their academic accomplishments and the education is one of the most culturally important parts of life. “The culture creates the system” (Choi, Amy) The three principles of human life, according with Ken Robinson, are: that human beings are naturally different and diverse; curiosity is the engine of achievement, and children are natural learners; and that human life is inherently creative. We create our own lives through the process of imaginings and possibilities, and what the education should do is to awake and develop these powers of creativity. But we trade this system as a mechanical system, rather than a human system; education is about people, made by people, and for people. And sometimes schools forget that teachers are the lifeblood of the success of school; they come first, and without teachers we don’t have schools. An important aggravating to the education has been the way that its today is the lack of motivation, or the wrong motivation for the students. Most students in public schools around the world don’t have a “good life”; they are in difficult situations at home, so they need a lot of motivation to don’t give up. Motivation is the key of education, and could be divided in three: education has a payoff, what is long for some students that need money now; it’s relevant and helps to move a living there and then; but most important, education should be intrinsically interesting. The innovation consultant Charles Leadbeater went in poor communities in some “third world countries” as Brazil, and Kibera, and met poor students who dropped school but with the right motivation and incentive they started in alternative systems of school; and these alternatives systems attempt to adapt to the needs of students. “And so education needs to work by pull, not push” (Leadbeater Charles). Differently from others countries US already spends a lot of money in education, with infrastructure, technology and others innovations, but all this money is going in the wrong direction. Education is not about what do you have in school or how it is the school but how do you teach and what do you teach the students. Education supposed to prepare children to be adults, education is "the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life." (Dictionary. References). So how can we improve the educational system? Individualize teaching and learning, attribute a very high status to the teaching profession and devolve responsibility to the school level for getting the job done, and not the central or state governments, this are somethings that could improve the educational system, but the real problem is that even with this ideas the system would still be inadequate and unfair. Because students "need" to go to college, or are expected to do so, and the college system sustained the educational system in public schools. Some people would say that the system doesn’t need changes, or maybe need but not so much. People could say that it's good the way that is, that school need to prepare students to go to college and then to work, and that we need some hierarchy of subjects, because the true is that math matters more than art classes, and there is some subjects that you will work with and are more worthily than others. Some people could defend that society needs standardized testing because there is no other way to measure the knowledge of students; that Finland and South Korea have the "best" educational systems because they are small countries and is easier to control the education. But the true is that it's not good the way that is, not even close. Educational system is trade as an industrialism manufacture, that you put different kids with different minds, qualities and abilities do be the same "prepared" students to go to college, and then to go to work, and then to make life worthily. Because other way you would be failed. The educational system start with schools but also involve college, and this also need to change; the subjects that are "worthily" for one student in the future could be different for other student; and if each state take care of their own education would be the same "size", or the same amount of students as in Finland or South Korea. Education is an investment to future; if we reinvent education we will be changing the future. "The current education system was designed and conceived for a different age..."(Robinson, Ken), was invented in the 18th, 19th centuries, by intellectuals, rich, people, in the intellectual cultural time of the enlightenment, and the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution. And in that time was just to types of people academic and non-academic, smart people and non-smart people. So how could we change the future if we are doing the same things as in the past? How can we prepare students to the future repeating the past?  And schools are organized on factory lines, ringing bells, separated subjects and facilities, schools educate children by batches, the age group. Why the education system sounds so much alike with a manufacture? What the educational system needs is give options to the future, not direct students to one way. The objective of students should be knowledge, education is knowledge, and nobody supposed say what is worthily to know and what is not. Each person is different and diversity need to be respected, each person has different opinions, objectives, different qualities, abilities, but all people has the capacity of divergent thinking, that is an essential capacity for creativity. It's the capacity of seen a lot of possible answers to a question, lots of ways to interpret a question, lots of way to find an answers to a question, thinking laterally, not linear or convergent. All people were born with this capacity according with studies, all kids in kindergarten has this capacity, but it's lost as the kids grow up; the problem it's not the age, but it's because the kids are now educated. Benjamin Franklin once said, "There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, they don't want to get it, they're not going to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen." And we need that something happen; when a lot of this people think together they create a movement, and when the movement get strong becomes a revolution, and this is what we need, we need a revolution. We need a revolution that says that creativity is the most great quality that the humans has, and that creativity and diversity walk side by side and we supposed to respected and encourage them. We need a revolution that deals with each person that way that each person should be deals, respecting the differences between everyone and breaking the idea of a linear system, and that adapt to the students and not the opposites. We need a revolution that changes the educational system, because to create a better society we need a better education.

**** academic work for English Class of Belding High School 2015