Zhenya's face cracked into a big grin as she watched the stylish, immaculate Professor Flamsteed broke out into a song. It was a song she assumed, she had never heard it before. But it was fun. She wrote down what he was saying on her parchment, and continued to listen to his teaching.

Zhenya didn't know a lot about tides. She had only been to the ocean a small handful of times, but the tiny bit she did know about would surely be an answer, even if only a little bit of information. She raised her hand and waited to be called on. "Tides are the rising and retreating level of the ocean. It creeps up over the sand, then retreats back over it." Yep, that was all she knew. Oh, besides the fact that the moon controlled it, but they had already covered that.