fandomhigh | Around the World in Seven Weeks [Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 2nd period]

Two men--one tall and blond dressed in Jedi robes (if you recognized that sort of thing) and one younger, shorter, stockier and redheaded, wearing jeans, though with the same bright blue eyes as the older man--waited for the class in front of the Portalocity office in town.

"Ho, everyone," the redhead began. "I'm Ben Skywalker. This is my grandfather Anakin--I know, he doesn't look it, long story, not really important--and this class is Around the World in Seven Weeks, where we send you through a portal to a new country every week, give you activities to complete and then expect you to return to us in one piece."

"Without having ticked off the people who live there," Anakin added a little vehemently. "Today," he said, striding over to the map of the world Portalocity had up on the wall ("We'll take you there! Or close enough!") and pointing to a country in South America, "we are going to Paraguay, a nation known for--"

"--not being Uruguay?" Ben suggested with a grin.

Anakin frowned at him. "Anyway, you are heading to the capital city of Asunción, where you will be given two tasks to complete, as well as finding us again in our end location. Be safe, don't get lost, and we'll see you at the end."

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In Stacked Up, you travel by taxi to the Mercado Central de Abasto, the largest fruit market in Paraguay and stack watermelons into a 10-by-10 pyramid. This is harder than it sounds. When you have completed your task, the fruit monger will give you the next clue.

In Strung Out, you travel to an auditorium at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción and properly string a harp, the national instrument of Paraguay. Once it's properly strung and ready to be tuned, the instructor will give you your next clue.

You travel to the Plaza de la Democracia where you will perform a traditional Paraguayan bottle dance (with only one bottle: Ben and Anakin aren't completely insane) in the square. You have to complete the choreography without breaking the bottle, and you only have ten bottles to try it with.

Once you've completed the dance to your instructor's satisfaction, she will tell you were to find Ben and Anakin.

You didn't have to eat anything weird or get covered in stuff! Wasn't that nice of them?

The RNG speaketh so:

1. Chaz Villette
2. Cordelia Chase
3. Kathy Li
4. Theo Langstrom
5. Karina Lyle
6. Korra
7. Billy Kaplan

Theo Langstrom

Theo had no idea why he was in this class again but there he was, running to start stacking watermelons in a pyramid. The only good thing about this class was that he couldn't take shortcuts so he could ignore Dev and just focus for a few precious moments.

The base of the pyramid was what he concentrated on and once that was stable, stacking the other watermelons was actually pretty easy. He couldn't believe he'd managed that but he had so he took off for the next activity.

It was probably a good thing that Theo had made good time on the first activity because he had two left feet and five minutes in, had already broken two bottles.

He started getting frustrated when Ange seemed to exert more of an influence over him for just a moment and calmed him down. He broke one more bottle before he managed to get the dance done and headed for the finish line.

Theo jogged in, not too worse for the wear. But, he knew this was the first class so he figured that would change in the upcoming weeks.

Karina Lyle

Karina wasn't sure what to think of this class, since they gave extremely little warning before sending them off to do things.

Stacking watermelons, she rapidly discovered, was not a talent of hers. It took her much longer than she would have liked to get it done and, by the time she got it done to the fruit monger's satisfaction, she was wishing heartily that she'd taken the other option.

Dancing! She could do dancing! Her bad mood from the first task faded as she aced the second without breaking a single bottle.

Karina figured that had to make up for some of the time she'd lost to the watermelons.

Karina reached the check in spot still pleased as punch from the dancing.

It was too bad that others had gotten there before her but Karina felt generous and didn't begrudge them that too much.

Cordelia Chase

Korra

WAIT. WAIT. Cordelia had questions! Like, they were actually going to another country during class? And she had to do work? Why couldn't she just get tan and take pictures?

Ugh, whatever. She picked the watermelon thing, which seemed way easier than dealing with a harp, like that was cool or something. And while the watermelons weren't fun at all to stack and no matter how many times she dropped the, "Hello, new manicure, how about some help here?" they made it do it all herself but she'd swear up and down that yelling at the watermelons to stay the hell where they were helped.

The fifth time her watermelon pyramid fell down, Korra seriously considered just setting it on fire. Luckily it stayed up the sixth.

Korra managed a slightly better job on this task, slightly. Pity she'd already lost so much time on the watermelons.

Okay, this was stupid.

But Cordelia had a long and storied history with cheerleading, which meant she was actually really good at learning new routines on the fly, so this wasn't really as difficult. She broke one bottle right off, at which point she yelled at someone for giving her a defective one, and got it right on the second try.

Well, there were certainly a lot of people here already...

Oh, god, let's not think about the first week Cordelia had to get covered in stuff.

"This is a really weird class," she announced when she got there, just in case they didn't know they were running a really weird class. "And I'm not paying for that bottle."

"You're fifth today," Ben told her. "What's your name?"

Ben laughed. "That's why we had a ten bottle limit--we expected them to break. You're second today. What's your name?"

"Could be worse," she said, wanting to put a good face on it. "I'm Karina Lyle. Hi!"

"Hello again," Anakin said with a tiny smile. "You're fourth today."

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