Food Field Trips, Friday 11/1 2nd Period

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“I hope everyone enjoyed last week,” Stark said once they were all gathered at the Portalocity office. “I know I did. It was a good trip. I look forward to the next one. But for now a shorter trip, to Colorado, just for the morning.”

To Boulder, Colorado in fact! “We’ll be going to visit the Celestial Seasonings factory in Boulder for a tour and some tea. The tea shop there has tastings available of over a hundred flavors. Hopefully at least one will appeal to each of you.”

“If we’re all ready, we can head through the portal now.”

The Weird, Wonderful, and WTF World - Friday, First Period [11/01].

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The class was meeting in the Danger Shop that morning, which might have made some people a little nervous, until they realized that they were just going to be using the classroom sim. Which might also still make people who knew Summer nervous, but, don't worry. She really was just using the classroom sim because that was still hilarious to her.

"If you're anything like me," she started, "which, I mean, you should be, highly recommended, because I'm pretty awesome....but, if you're anything like me, the last thing you want to be doing after a bomb-ass party like last night's is be learning something in a classroom. But we've already missed out on too many weird and wonderful and what-the-fuck things this semester due to one thing or another, so we're just going to have a good old fashioned movie day.

"This movie I'm about to show you is probably one of the most weird, wonderful, and what the fuck things I think I have ever seen, and it fits perfectly into this class. It's a 1977 psychedelic comedy horror film by noted Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi and produced by the same company that does Godzilla movies. The director's at-the-time 12-year-old daughter is listed as a cowriter to the film because he pretty much asked her what she would like to see in a horror movie, and just took those ideas and went with it. It's also partially inspired by Jaws, because Nobuhiko wanted to envision that kind of movie, but for Japanese audiences, and it also touched very heavily on his dealing with the trauma of, you know, being from fucking Hiroshima, and his survivors guilt from losing so many of his friends and loved ones to the atomic bomb.

"If you think you know how this movie is going to go, there's a good chance you are wrong, because it's a wild ride from start to finish, and you know what? I'm not going to say anything more, we're just going to watch it."