My Hunter Boyfriend and My Dog

Gym Class

As Adalin and Owen take their seats Mr. Dawson paused from teaching mathematics to ask if everything went alright.

"Yeah nurse checked me out. Said I'm okay." Owen explains and the teacher nodded going back to his lecture.

"So eight to the fourth power can also be written out as eight times eight times eight times eight... To get 4,096." Dawson goes back to writing on the chalk board.

Adalin sees Gregory sound asleep in his chair drooling as Keith is struggling to not fall asleep himself while taking notes. Even Owen gets comfortable in his seat and picks up his book and puts on his face going to go to sleep to Adalin's horror.

Adalin takes off his hat and whacks Owen as he takes off the book to look at him confused as Adalin looks at him with a face that can only be described as an angry puffer fish. Owen flashed a smile and puts his book down as he stands up in his desk.

"Hey teach! I was curious if you let our new student here explain how they use math over in their country!" Owen chimed making Keith stir to attention and elbows Gregory awake nearly making him fall out of his desk.

The teacher looks at Owen confused as Adalin tried to hide inside his hat looking embarrassed, "I don't see why not. Alright mister Pompey. Will you please come up front for a bit." Dawson explains.

Adalin shoots a look that says you're going to pay for this later as Owen just chuckled. Adalin shyly stands in front of the classroom looking at the bored and tired seniors who look like they want to be anywhere, but here right now.

"Uh..." Adalin wasn't sure how to start as Dawson takes his seat in his desk and drinks some of his coffee to stay awake himself.

"You got this! How do you guys use math in your everyday lives?" Owen asked happily.

"Well... as a sailor... math is very vital to us to find our ways home and figure out where we are positioned in the vast sea. There's no landmarks to go off sometimes, but you can always count on the stars and constellations to be your guide..." Adalin begins to explain shyly.

"Yeah... but where the math come to play in all that?" Owen encourage and Adalin had half a mind to beat him with his hat again.

Adalin takes a piece of chalk and begins writing on it and slams his hand against the board startling a few sleepy students.

"Don't rush me! I take this very seriously! Because out there on the sea this is what's going to save you from getting lost for years on end and starving to death when your supplies depleted due how many days you've all been lost at sea!" Adalin insisted gaining the students full attention now as Owen just smiled widely looking like he was loving this.

"The sun and stars are our guide! From the sun's position alone we know the time of day, the season and even what direction our boats are heading!" Adalin points to his drawling of the sun going around the planet with a little ship on top of the planet.

"We can even calculate our speed and what distance we'll be traveling if the ship is sailing or drifting out of control to at least steer her away from dangerous areas and get her to come to shore safely!" Adalin was very passionate about this as he began explaining a bit of the mathematics behind speed even going so far to explain how fast certain anchors will slow certain boats.

Owen just couldn't help, but watch his mate explain how to find latitudes and longitude with just the sun's position and knowing the depth of the sea. The students were eagerly writing it down and taking down notes finding it more interesting that just knowing what numbers does what changes to another number. To them they were seeing practical uses of math in play that they could use at any point of time they on the sea or even lost in the woods.