How to Blow Things Up: Week 7; Period 2

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Aly was waiting in the Danger Shop for the class to meet though she planned on ending up being outside by the end of the session.  She waited for them, bouncing from foot to foot impatiently.  Finally once everyone arrived, she began. 

"First off, I hope you all had a good time over the weekend.  I had a lot of fun, and you all showed yourselves to be very capable both in the paintball looking at tactics and the use of grenades and making the fireworks on Sunday."  She grinned at them.  "Making fireworks is actually pretty dangerous because of the packing of the black powder in the tubes.  I had absolutely no qualms about letting any of you work with it under minimal supervision."  Aly winked.  "Which, if you noticed, the majority of my attention was on the other classes."

"So today we have two projects.  The first is the one I gave you at the beginning of the term which was to design a plan to blow up the school.  If you've handwavily, I assume done so, we have a set up in the Danger Shop where you can place your charges and see how the plan holds up."

"Second thing is we're going to head outside to just in the Preserve and fire off some cannon."  Aly grinned.  "Which, okay, are basically outmoded now and entirely effective as modern weapons for this world, let alone some of the civilisations some of you come from, but they're a lot of fun, they're tricky, and they're temperamental.   So it should be an interesting last exercise." 

She went through a quick but detailed lecture on how to load and fire a cannon using a Danger Shop mock-up to demonstrate on. 

Once the students had tried out their explosion plans and checked out the simulated cannon, Aly led them outside for practice on the real thing. 

"And one last thing to you all," she said with a grin after the cannons had been fired many, many times and all the shells used up.  "I've definitely enjoyed having you all in my class.  I hope you learned something and had fun, and I hope to see you in future classes I teach or in my office if you ever decide to visit."

[OOC:  Awesome class, guys, seriously.  I'll miss you all so very much.  Please, one last time, wait for the OCD is up.]

Library - 6/26

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Iced coffee in hand, Isabel opened the library, glad to be out of what looked to be a very hot day.

Construction Site: Tuesday 6/26, all day

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No additional fancy new hardhats today, and the work is the same as it was last week: putting up wooden framing for interior walls. Well, what'll eventually be interior walls again once the exterior shows back up.

What is new is there's a CD boombox. Instead of Xander safety-lecturing at them, the workers get music to build by. * Which... might include somebody else safety-lecturing at them, but at least it's funny.
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[OOC: Open!]

Tuesday, June 26 - Period 3 - Advanced Beginner's Guide to is anyone really reading this? Hi Mom!

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"Welcome, welcome, welcome!" cried one Jerry, dancing around excitedly. He had Christmas lights around his housecoat and his wig was nearly falling off.

"Welcome to Introduction to Swimming and Boating for Beginners and Advanced Beginners!" said the other Jerry. He looked perfectly normal. Wherein "normal" is defined as "Jerry." So not normal at all.

"Welcome to Boating Safety for Canadians!"

"Welcome to Fire Safety for Albanians!"

"Welcome to Fire Alarms for Haitians!"

"Welcome to Alarming Science for Swedens!"

"Yes! We have science, Jerry! We brought it here for you!"

"Taste our science! Taste it!"

"This week, we shall study mating rituals of the porcupine!"

"This week, we shall make models of the Taj Mahal using only meat!"

"This week, we shall diagram the fall of the Roman Empire using spaghetti and an old toothbrush!"

( This week, we are going ... TO THE MOON! )

(OCD, OCD, please wait for the OCD! The OCD is up, and the final Jerryclass is now in play. Do come in.)