twilightpony | Guest Who's Coming To Dinner

The dinner is tomorrow.

Sunset Shimmer has already set the table with my best dinnerware. I was going to do that by hoof, and I was going to use setting the table as a vehicle for a friendship lesson through concept association. I had been rereading about oral histories and teaching through mnemonic devices and setting the table with Sunset Shimmer seemed like a golden opportunity for a field test. But apparently Sunset Shimmer has already read the chapter on silverware placement in Miss Manege on Dining and Etiquette and she set the table in about two seconds flat. She heard "set the table" and I had to dodge flying forks and knives in mid sentence. With the table already set, the visual aspect was there, but the kinesthetic factor was gone. So I skipped that lesson.

I'd like to impress Princess Celestia with my student and show off how well she's learning about friendship. So for her next friendship lesson, her task is to make a new friend and to bring that friend to dinner tomorrow night. The table is already set for just the four of us, me, Princess Celestia, Starlight Glimmer and her new, as yet to be discovered, friend. Princess Celestia will be so impressed and I will have restored the four-place symmetry in the table settings!

I think I'll go down to the reception hall and polish the silverware some more. Silverware placement is giving me such a thrill! I even have the strawberry forks out, even though strawberries aren't in season for at least another moon.