Problem Solving and You! - Thursday

[magnusrushesin]

Cara looked almost cheerful today. She wasn't entirely sure why. It probably didn't bode well.

And the tavern patrons for this class held more women than usual. All women, in fact. So that could have been a factor in there maybe.

"Greetings once more, class!" Magnus said with his usual cheer. "Tomorrow is International Women's Day which sounds like a cool holiday to us."

"One that should be celebrated by punching." Or other ways that were vaguely inappropriate for Cara to suggest to the class.

"Punching the patriarchy!" Magnus cheered. Just getting right to the point, this lad. Then whispered to Cara, "Did... Did you program the neckbeards?"

"Why would I want to deal with men on a holiday about women?" Because you couldn't punch the patriarchy without any men, Cara.

"For the--for the punching?" he suggested, voice going up in pitch at the end.

Cara rolled her eyes. "Fine, we'll add some neckbeards."

"Yaaaay!" Weren't you all thrilled to be in this class, kids?

Culture Shock, Thursday, Period 2

[uncertain_dume]

"There's a well-known poem," said Summer, once the class had gathered once again in the Danger Shop and feeling super profesh for pulling out some fancy-ass quote to start with that day, "from Earth author Robert Frost, that goes something like 'Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by/And that has made all the difference.' Which is a cool thought and all, Mr. Frost, but what I really want to know is how it was he traveled that road."

How you like them introductions into a lesson, huh? Boom. Nailed it. Perfect segue into the lesson for her partner in chaos disguised as education.

"My guess is he was walking," Kanan noted, "which is a nice option, but a boring one. Today we're going to explore travel. From Earth's cars, bikes, airplanes, to things like speeders and ships." A pause. "Ones that fly or ones that float. People need to get from one place to another."

"And, depending on what you're used to," Summer continued, "one place's conventional method of travel could be way different than what you're used to. Like, if you're used to spaceships, an airplane might seem a little lame, and if you're used to a horse-drawn carriage, a segue is going to blow your freaking mind!"

"I've only just finally stopped calling Earth 'cute,'" Kanan confessed, "after I wound up stuck here and learned that humanity hasn't actually wandered beyond their own moon, here. And your cars have wheels? What's up with that?"

"Even our quote-unquote 'hoverboards' have wheels," said Summer, rolling her eyes a little. "That's not hovering! It's a total misnomer, and it's kind of annoying."

"In fairness, I used to drive a hoverbus that barely hovered, too," Kanan offered. Thus just cementing that whole 'bus driver guy' thing for all eternity, he was sure. "Of course Hera managed to get the thing to fly. I don't know how she does it."

Sorry, class. Kanan needed to take that momentary interlude to just be awestruck over Hera's way with the Smoothride again.

Which was super adorable, BDG, really, but they were kind of in the middle of something here. "Aaaannyway," she said, "before we totally lose this one to pilot-related schmoop, let's get this show on the road. Literally! Because you guys are going to check out and ride in and maybe even test drive a few different mode of transportation from across different galaxies and times, through the ever awesome magic of the Danger Shop."

"I'd advise you to not crash any of them," Kanan noted, "but it's the Danger Shop. If you ever really wanted to fly a ship into an asteroid or run a blurrg off a cliff, I guess now's the time to do it."

[Open!]

Dollar Store Arts and Crafts, Thursday, Period 1

[geniuswithasmartphone]

Today, the crafting tables were covered with t-shirts in various sizes and styles, mostly white, but a few black ones as well. There were also multiple colors of fabric dyes, bleach, and plastic gloves. Anyone who had ever been to summer camp probably knew exactly what today's class was about.

"Hey y'all," Hardison said, grinning. "So, it's impossible to teach arts an' crafts without goin' over the concept of tie-dyin'. Sorry, but them's the rules. But there are multiple patterns you can dye into the fabric an' today, I'mma show you several shibori techniques from Japan. So, you're still gonna look like you escaped from a Grateful Dead concert, but at least you'll know it's a historical style."