Chapter 261: Needlework
Two days of happy school life passed in the blink of an eye.
Today is already Friday - the first weekend after school begins!
The two classes in the afternoon are physical education and home economics.
Today's physical education class, Classes 6 and 7 of Senior 1, and Class 1 and 5 of Senior 3 are taught together.
This class is taught separately for boys and girls. The boys were taken to play basketball by their senior year physical education teacher, while the girls were taken to practice gymnastics by their teacher Natsuko.
The home economics class teaches everyone how to use a sewing machine.
This class, like the chemistry class in the morning, was held in the laboratory building connected to the teaching building by a suspended corridor on the third floor.
Despite its name, there are more than just physics, chemistry and biology laboratories inside.
Music classrooms, art classrooms, home economics classrooms, craft classrooms, computer rooms, etc. are all inside.
So, basically you need to go back and forth every day.
The home economics classroom is quite special. It is not just one room, but occupies several classrooms in a row.
The reason why is because the teaching content of this course is very complicated, and the various props required often take up a lot of space.
For example, if everyone wants to learn to use a sewing machine today, then there must be many sewing machines for everyone to use.
Although it is used by two people, each class at Sakurajima Academy can have up to forty-two students. Including the teacher, we have to prepare at least twenty-two sewing machines.
With so many sewing machines and operating tables, it is normal for a classroom to be monopolized.
In addition, a major teaching content of home economics class is to teach students how to cook.
It is very normal for this project to occupy a classroom by itself.
Erina doesn't know how to sew, let alone use a sewing machine.
She only learned how to operate this kind of machine in the home economics class in junior high school, but the eldest daughter returned all the things she learned in junior high school to the teacher. Now her brain is empty. Apart from being able to press the switch of the sewing machine, she can do nothing. Not anymore!
Of course, teachers will not assume that students already know how to use this thing.
Therefore, she taught her from the beginning and let everyone follow and learn slowly.
The teacher said that sewing classes take up a larger proportion in the first two semesters of the first year of high school, and he hopes everyone can study hard. We will teach you how to sew damaged gaps in clothing, start with a simple handkerchief, and finally sew a sturdy and durable shoulder bag.
Carrying a bag you made yourself will definitely give you a sense of accomplishment.
Yoshiyuki couldn't help but imagine what it would be like for Erina to wrap the dumplings she made.
However...it's really hard to imagine!
After all, the eldest lady has zero hands-on ability.
Let alone a shoulder bag, she can sew a school bag cover which is pretty good.
The home economics teacher quickly distributed the materials needed for this lesson to everyone.
Before the official start, she also reminded her that it goes without saying that girls should also study hard.
Because even if you have a full-time housewife as your wife in the future, you don’t have to worry about sewing and mending. There is no harm in having more life skills.
What's more, you may not get married in the future, or even find a girlfriend. Maybe the income is still quite unsatisfactory.
As a single person, if you know how to do needlework, you can at least save some money. It’s expensive to go out and spend money to sew clothes.
This truth is quite heartbreaking.
It was so heartbreaking that some people suddenly showed depressed expressions, as if they could already see a future where they would be lonely to death!
After Yoshiyuki noticed this, he immediately felt very sympathetic and a little happy.
After all, not only is he very good at needlework, but he doesn’t even have to worry about his girlfriend!
Yoshiyuki's sewing ability caught the teacher's attention soon after class.
Also receiving much attention is Sakurayuki Chiai.
The two of them were the most skilled. But Yingxue is still more experienced, so she is more powerful.
After all, Sakurayuki is someone who can even sew the Hatsuyuki miko uniform with many patterns. And Yi Xing doesn’t know how to sew large items of clothing from scratch.
It's not a big problem to sew a scarf, gloves or something.
The teacher praised both of them, especially Yingxue.
She said that Yingxue's craftsmanship was basically on par with hers. The use of sewing machines has even reached the level of professionals.
Therefore, she immediately decided to appoint Sakurayuki Chiai as the class representative of the home economics class.
This result is not surprising.
Including her being elected as the interim health committee member under the name of her class teacher, it was also expected.
After all, when Yingxue Qianai was on duty as a student, her hygiene was very professional. The work efficiency is much higher than that of ordinary students.
She also showed great diligence during the school cleaning.
In fact, in her opinion, the cleaning tasks of the whole class are probably not as large as the daily tasks of cleaning up the shrine.
The so-called temporary members are students who are directly appointed by the class teacher and temporarily hold this position before the official class committee election.
Except for the disciplinary committee member, there is no temporary explanation. And as long as someone in the class signs up to be a teacher and passes the review of the Discipline Committee, then we can just wait for the results of the Discipline Committee.
Since the Discipline Committee only selects one student from each class to join, if only one person signs up and passes the exam, he will be the Discipline Committee member of the class.
If there are more than two people, whoever the disciplinary committee chooses can join.
Teacher Matsunaga announced the list of temporary class committee members before school.
Among the classmates with whom Yoshiyuki is familiar, in addition to Sakurayuki Chiai becoming the health committee member, Kitajima Sashi was also elected as the class committee member.
Moreover, he is the class leader with great responsibility and power.
As for temporary class representatives, teachers from various subjects have also been selected one after another.
Only the music class representative is pending - this is because the first day of school is Tuesday and music classes are only on Monday, so the music teacher hasn't met the students yet and can't make a decision.
Among the people Yi Xing knew well, including himself, there were so many people who were elected as temporary class representatives.
Maekawa Yoshiyuki: Physical education class representative.
Kitajima Sayo: English class representative.
Kimbo Kikue: Representative of the World History Class.
Sakurayuki Chiai: Representative of Home Economics class.
Since it is not yet possible to see how students perform, teachers of each subject now choose course representatives purely based on their goodwill. First impressions are very important.
Yoshiyuki felt that the reason why Teacher Natsuko chose him as the class representative probably had nothing to do with his performance in physical education class.
It was just because he had chatted privately when delivering the stretcher in the first class, and Xia Zi thought he looked familiar.
Teacher Matsunaga chose Bei Dao as the class representative because he has a good impression of her and thinks she has great leadership skills.
The reason why Jimbo Kikue was selected as the representative of the world history class is unknown, but he personally thinks that it was because he spoke enthusiastically in class and was handsome, so the teacher just chose him randomly.
This somewhat shameless remark drew a burst of boos from Yoshiyuki and Erina. However, Takagi Yoko said with a smile that Jinbo was very handsome, which made everyone not know how to answer the question.