Magister Roa:
Welcome! My fellow Magisters and I were sent here, to the Ivory Tower of Oren, to instruct Giran's finest youths in the ways of magic. Still waiting for them to show up...
Sniff... it looks like you're from a small country school? Yes? Did you study at Einhovant's School of Magic? Harumph, shoddy pretenders, the lot of them! I'm sure you won't be able to keep up with my lessons, but...
Well, let's just get started and see how you do. If you don't understand something, ask. It's better to humiliate yourself asking than to blow yourself up or turn your lab partner into a frog... though, that depends somewhat on your lab partner...