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Try Not to Die!!! [Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 3rd period]

The students had been told to wear their swimsuits under their clothing today and then to meet up at the Portalocity office.

"Today is going to be hot," Ben said with a smile. "You're going to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates and it's about 115 degrees already--a nice early summer morning."

Anakin grew up on Tatooine, so that kind of weather didn't impress him much. "Please be on your best behavior: the Emiratees are more liberal than many of their neighbors, but that doesn't mean they love sleeveless shirts and miniskirts," he warned. "If you're concerned about what you're wearing, we've provided pants and button-up shirts for you to change into. Other than that, have fun, don't get too lost in the souq, and we'll see you at the finish line.q

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Travel to Deira, the commerce neighborhood of Dubai. For Gold, continue to the Gold Souq, where it's estimated there's ten tons of gold present in the market at any given moment. Find the marked gold shop and use the precision scale to weigh out US$500,000 worth of gold to the nearest ounce. The price of gold per ounce is displayed on a television monitor and changes by the minute, so this will require both math skills and patience.

In Glass, you go to the Spice Market and open a crate, then unwrap and assemble twelve hookahs â using all parts from the crate and using three displayed hookahs as guides â before receiving your next clue. This will also require patience.

Don't ask how many hookahs Korra broke before she managed to assemble the twelve she needed. Just don't.

Theo didn't really feel like he'd be good at either of these.

"Go for the hookahs, Theo!" Devi said, fists pumping. "And convince someone familiar with the things to help you. It's not like it's against the rules! No one said you couldn't do it!"

"It it against the rules, Dev," Ange said, frowning. "It would be cheating and give Theo an unfair advantage!"

"That's the point!" Dev roared.

Theo did choose to try and assemble the hookahs and he had a momentary desire to convince someone to help him put the things together but the teacher was kind of scary and he figured he'd be found out so he went about putting them together himself

It took FOREVER and it wasn't helped by Dev and Ange arguing loudly in his head, causing Theo to yell at them (which meant he was yelling to no one) a few times. That drew some looks.

Both of these sounded like they'd end her in last place, so Maddie went with the second thing, since it didn't mean doing math in the summer. And as it turned out, she didn't have that hard a time putting the first hookah together, and once she got the first one down, the rest were easy.

Math skills Anakin had in spades, but patience . . . that was still very much a work in progress for him.

His frustration got the better of him for a few minutes and slowed him down, but by the time he finally got himself calm enough to think (drawing on some Jedi relaxation techniques to do so) it was just like another puzzle.

The upside to the time he lost in the process was a disgustingly precise measurement of gold. ~~Damn Skywalker-Solos.~~

Instead of going for the challenge where he would have a natural advantage, Chaz decided to do glass. He never wanted to see so much broken glass again.

Alex really didn't feel like dealing with math today, so she chose the second option. Too bad it didn't exactly work out the way she wanted. It took forever to get just one assembled.

This task made her realize her patience was nearly non-existent.

Raven had a natural eye for matching details -- usually to make sure she was mimicking someone properly, but still -- so she went for the hookah assembly. She laid out all the pieces first, spent a few moments studying the display pieces, and then set to work putting the twelve hookahs together. Once she got the first one done, the rest were easy.

All the bits were used, not a piece was broken. She was quite proud of herself for that.

Emily was going to go for the Glass detour here, because she didn't like the idea of an ever changing price. Building something should be way easier, right?

Well, apparently not so much.

Gold with an ever changing price? Oh no, that wouldn't work.

So, Mercy struggled through putting together the hookahs.

She just might be here forever.

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