After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World - Chapter 949

Chapter 949: Children’s Games

After the kids happily ate, they took the remaining break time to play in the gardens.

They were told not to run too much after eating though, so they only played mild games.

Mimi—the girl with the high EQ and the little ‘officer’ tasked by her dad to make the schooling experience better for everyone—tried her best to include all the kids and to stop the formation of exclusive cliques.

One of the ways to do this, according to her father, was to always bond as a group. Even if they couldn’t bring in everyone, at least someone from each group should be spending time with the others.

There were plenty of cultural and knowledge dissonances between Terrans and aborigines, and there were also differences within each race.

For instance, there would be differences between kids from the Eden country and those outside of it. Another, there would be differences between Mauin kids and kids from the other villages.

However—with Mimi and her friends’ leadership (they treated this as a fun mission called ‘make everyone friends’)—they had managed to create an atmosphere where one group was not against others.

The kids naturally had their closest group of friends, with whom they liked spending the most time with. However, fortunately, there were no exclusive cliques that were formed.

Of course, this didn’t mean that everyone was playing the same games at all times. It simply meant that the kids could join in from one group to another, without receiving backlash (except maybe if one was escaping an imminent loss).

In one corner, the kids playing were Mimi, Honda, Lily, Fiona, and Lina. Along with them were Maumi, the curly–haired Pongo, and the little baldie Gururu. Maya and Horus, as well as a few others, were playing elsewhere.

Interestingly, Lina seemed to be trying to position herself next to Honda, the handsome little blonde, though he didn’t seem to take much notice of her.

Right now, the children decided to play a game called ‘I wanna be a tootoo-bee’ where they just had to make a circle sitting down.

It was a fun alertness game from Fiona’s country where they would clap on their thighs with a beat and call on numbers.

The ones who ‘owned’ the numbers had to react fast and then call out another—otherwise, they were out of the game.

Although some didn’t even know what a bee was, that was besides the point. It was a fun game without much movement, but no less thrilling.

Giggles abound the small park as the children played the ‘high-stakes’ game, and laughter exploded when—one after the other—the kids would mess up.

Very few were sore losers, and those uncomfortable with losing eventually adjusted and loosened up when they saw their Terran counterparts having fun—even when they were kicked out of the game.

The ‘losers’ would even make some funny noises to distract those still within the game.

In a sense, games like these were also a way to teach children it was okay to lose—it was how you handled them that mattered.

The fun couldn’t last forever though, because the bell rang too soon.

“Awwww….” the children’s shoulders slumped, but they all still stood up to go to their respective classes.

“I was just about to win…” Maumi even mumbled in bitterness.

“No, I was about to win,” Gururu retorted. “You were starting to mess up.”

“That was because Pongo’s being a jerk loser and whispering me the wrong numbers!!”

“Pshh, excuses!”

“Grrr—”

“Grrrr—”

Mimi’s side, on the other hand, was much calmer. Maya and the others converged with them, asking around to determine who they’d be walking with to the next class.

“You’re doing Plant classes, right?” Mimi asked, roughly remembering her friends’ schedules.

“Yeah, you?”

“Same! Let’s go together!” Maya said, wrapping her arms around Mimi’s. A few other classmates also followed behind them.

“Can I come with you?” Lina asked. They nodded and looked at Lily and Fiona, who also followed closely behind.

The others like Horus and Honda, on the other hand, headed to PE class, and they also headed there together. The boys were naturally a lot less chatty though, but there was still a warm feeling in heading to a class with friends—even if it was just a minute or two of walking.

And so began another fun-or-not-fun classroom sessions for the children.

…

Evelyn’s elementary morning class had ended and it was now time for the babies’ class.

She loved it so much because the babies were so cute! This was her favorite class ever, and she always felt like melting every time.

In this tiny class were Theo, Pepper, and Meatball. It was still small for now but, eventually, the new babies would grow up and this would become a larger class.

In the babies’ cases, they were just there to socialize in an educational setting. It would not be good to be surrounded by adults all the time. Anyway, they had more or less captured the times they’d be using their powers, so it was fairly safe to have them outside again.

Winona brought the children at this time, with their parents busy preparing the territory for the imminent upgrade.

Winona also had a lot of projects but she was an emotional pregnant woman, so everyone limited her stress to about four times a week at most.

Also, like Evelyn, she loved watching the three babies study together.

At this time, Evelyn was teaching Theo about the different shapes. “What shape is this?” she asked, showing him a drawing of a perfect circle.

Theo stared for a second before answering. “It’s a cwicul!”

“Yes, very good Theo~ It is, indeed, a circle,” Evelyn said, tone extremely gentle. “Do you know what color it has?”

Theo didn’t answer immediately and stared at the shape for a while before his rounded eyes widened at the recollection. “Wed!” he said. “Wed cwicul!”

“That’s amazing, Theo!” Evelyn couldn’t help but giggle a little, giving him a star. It was made of painted paper. At the back, there was an adhesive with the (still being perfected) double-sided tape, so it could stick to children’s clothes without damaging them.

Theo looked very happy when he received his star. He smiled and stood up, and the two women watched the boy’s little feet patter as he headed toward the babies. They were very curious and they followed his every moment.

At this time, the two kids were in a play cot with a shape sorting toy made of wood and covered with soft fabric. The two were having fun just placing them through over and over, though there seemed to be a rivalry of sorts between the kids.

Anyway, Theo approached the two babies and crouched down next to Little Pepper.

He took the star sticker off and then he gently placed it on her cheek, making her giggle.

“Mwamhhhwa!!” she mumbled adorably.

“Youw wehcome, Baby Peppah,” he said with a sweet smile, making the ignored baby boy pout.

Winona chuckled, as she took the neglected baby boy in her arms. She gently poked his chubby cheek—not that he was amused, of course.

“Googgmmmammmhhh!!”

“Don’t be jealous, baby boy,” she said, her voice a bit shaky as she tried not to laugh out loud. “Wait until you get a girlfriend.”

Then Winona shifted her sights to Theo, who looked like he could give Pepper all the stars he’d receive, and she couldn’t stop her laughter anymore.

Garan would definitely age badly!