"How was school, honey?"
She tries to make the kids' favorite meals on their first day of school, but when she asked Iomedae's favorite meal the girl first stared at her blankly and then after some extended clarifications proposed that they could roast a pig, and she can't actually roast a pig, so dinner is pork chops, and potatoes, and salad from the farmer's market. Iomedae is not a picky eater.
(The girl is in fact clinically obese. The doctor suggested they talk with her about cutting back on junk food, but the social worker said that was a bad idea, with a kid new to care - don't restrict her food access at all, just get her more exercise. So Jenny signed her up for swim lessons at the YMCA and for track and field at school. Iomedae balked at the swimming lessons on the grounds that swimsuits were immodest, and they do actually make hijabi wetsuit things but apparently not in her size. Hopefully track and field she'll actually enjoy.)
The spinning class has been going on for a while now and is going to wind down soon, but they have a scroll-making class getting set up. An older woman in Seljuk garb is setting out paper, paints, little dishes of something shiny and gold, and little pre-drawn sketches to be painted or coloured in.
Behind the barn, the heralds are still coaching each other to be louder. Through the walls there's an audible, "Oyez - no, *Oyez*! no - *OYEZ*!! - no, project, don't yell -"
Iomedae wants that job, once she can speak English better. Talking so people can hear you very far away is an important paladin skill. She does not particularly want to spin, though it's kind of weird that this is the first place in America where she's seen anyone spinning. She was kind of assuming they had Azlanti technology for that, if they didn't even make their slaves do it.
She will paint, if Jenny wants her to paint. She has no experience with paint but no objections to it either.
Jenny just thinks it's probably not a good idea to spend every waking moment on schoolwork or violence.
Wow, these paints are cool. "God is good!" she says delightedly.