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Nordic Witch 
Professor Roslund waited some more minutes to give the last stragglers time to assemble. Turning to face the class he cleared his throat and spoke to his student's "Good evening class! I'm Professor Edvard Roslund. I will be teaching you about outer-space during the year." Clapping his hands the writing on the board dissappeared and new writing came in its place.
"Before we go deeper into the lesson. Let's create a common ground to stand on. In your opinions what is astronomy?" Edvard sat down on the edge off the desk and waited for the answer's to start pouring in.
What was Astronomy?
Tapping her chin for a moment, she raised her hand,
"Astronomy is..." She remembered this was previous classes...
"derived from the Greek words for star law, and is the scientific study of all objects beyond our world."
Why was it that they always opened classes with a question like this?