1 x 1 with Angel

[Boomer]

"It is?" she asked, a bit surprised. Mrs. Potter laughed a little as she nodded. "He's right, it doesn't taste good when it cools down." she said. Alessa gave a nod as she turned to Alex. "Okay, we'll wait to have our snacks then." said Alessa confidently.

[humanitieslasthope.]

Alex went upstairs along with Alessa, and when they both got back into his room, Alex turned on the light.
"okay, did you look at the questions?" Alex asked, going to get them pencils.
"Do you think youll be okay at them? i can help if you need it."

[Boomer]

"Yeah, I looked." she answered, sitting on the bed. She sat so she could use his desk. "I think I can add and subtract just fine, and I can write too..." she murmured, "But I'm not so good with telling time. I mean, I know that 8 AM is when my blood is drawn, but I can't show you on an actual clock."

[humanitieslasthope.]

"oh, thats simple to learn." Alex told her, hoping it would give her some confidence learning.
"Do you want me to teach you? its fairly simple to teach aswell. i learnt it a while ago." He offered. There was a clock in each room. Analog and Digital. he preferred digital because it was much easier, but analog was okay aswell.

[Boomer]

"Oh, s-sure." said Alessa softly, "The clocks on the page look like old clocks. I think I should learn off of that one first." She did, however, get started on the addition and subtraction. She remembered learning that in the first grade, so it wasn't extremely difficult for her. After finishing that half of the page, she showed it to Alex. "I think I did these right." she said. Alessa was correct; she had the right answers for each problem.

[humanitieslasthope.]

Alex looked at her paper, and nodded.
"Yeah, you have them all correct!" He smiled.
Alex pointed at the clock on the wall. it was somewhat high up, right beside the door.
"okay, theres 3 hands. the small one is the hour hand. the long one is the minute hand, and the long skinny one is the second hand. Each number on the clock represents an hour. 12 , to 6, then back to 12. whatever number the hour hand is pointing at, is the hour!" Alex explained.
"With the minute hand, its a little different. It will go up by 5 minutes each big number it hits. when it goes from 12 to 1, that means its been 5 minutes. when it goes from 1 to 2, that means its been 5 more minutes,for a total of 10 minutes."
Alex drew a small clock on the paper, and positioned the time hands at 4:30.
"tell me, what time would this be?"

[Boomer]

Alessa looked at the drawing as Alex explained how to tell time. "Well... the small hand is on the four." she said, "And the big hand is on the six." Alessa counted aloud from the 12 to the 6 by five minutes. "That's... thirty?" she asked, "So 4:30? I think?" Alessa wasn't quite sure. "Or would it be 16:30?" she asked, "The doctors said different numbers for the afternoon. So after 12 PM, they'd say 13:00, 14:00... stuff like that."

[humanitieslasthope.]

"both would be correct!" He congradulated her.
"4:30 is the one we would use more, and 16:30 is mountain time. its not used alot. only in certain places." He explained, then drew another clock on the paper. this one said '6:45'
"now, what would this say?"

[Boomer]

Alessa flicked her tail as Alex drew another clock. "Well, it's six." she said, "Give me a minute with the minute hand." Alessa counted until she reached the nine. "Forty-five?" she said quietly, "The counting by 5's is hard." She didn't remember a lot of counting besides normal counting; she also didn't know anything about multiplication.

[humanitieslasthope.]

"yes, thats right!" Alex was surprised at her fast learning.
"Do you think youll be able to do the clock questions by yourself now?" Alex wanted to make sure she was okay with going in by herself. Alex wanted to start his own work now, aswell.