"Did you hear? School dance in two weeks!" Derpy exclaimed.
It had been two weeks since their first history lesson. They had met their other teachers, the awful mathematics teacher who wouldn't tell them his name so they called him sir and the ancient runes, biology and magic teacher who was a wise zebra called Zecora. She only really stayed at the school because everyone liked her, even though no one actually needed to learn magic. The science teacher was called Dr. Hooves. There were an awful lot of rumours going around about how he had gone to other universes, and although they were nonsense, he was very clever. Then there was the art, music and drama teacher called Octavia. She was very posh and played the cello.